Roméo et Juliette; BBC Symphony Orchestra at 80; Oxford Lieder festival | Classical review

Royal Opera House, London; Barbican, London; Holywell Music Room, OxfordBy the final act of Roméo et Juliette, revived at the Royal Opera House for only the second time in 16 years, I felt quite apologetic towards Gounod. His particular Gallic blend of erotic religiosity – all his life he was rent asunder by art, women and God; most men only struggle with two of those at a time – seemed to shed no light at all on Shakespeare's youthful lovers, if anything casting their turbulent passions in...

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