Resonance Works Closes Season with Gounod’s ‘Roméo & Juliette’
By Francisco Salazar(Credit: Photo courtesy of El Paso Opera)
Resonance Works concludes its 13th season with Gounod’s “Roméo & Juliette.”
The opera will be showcased on June 19 and 21 at The New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh’s Northside neighborhood.
“In this time of great division in our world, ‘Roméo & Juliette’ is just as relevant as it was in Shakespeare’s and in Gounod’s time,” says Maria Sensi Sellner, Artistic & General Director of Resonance Works. “These beloved characters remind us of the human consequences of villainizing one another. Roméo & Juliette reminds us, in the opera’s own words, that ‘des haines le temps est passé’ — the time for hatred has passed.”
Originally premiered at El Paso Opera in 2025, this production was created by stage director (and former Carnegie Mellon School of Drama faculty) Justin Lucero and Sensi Sellner.
The opera will star soprano Helen Zhibing Huang as Juliette, and tenor Benjamin Werley as Roméo. They will be joined by bass Philip Cokorinos as Friar Laurence, bass-baritone Ricardo Herrera as Juliette’s father, Lord Capulet, and mezzo-soprano Cherry Duke as Gertrude, Juliette’s confidante.
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