Director - Orpha Phelan

Conductor - Richard Bonynge (Australia) 

Conductor - Manlio Benzio (UK, Ireland)

Designer - Leslie Travers

Lighting Designer - Chris Davey

Choreographer - Tim Claydon

Romeo - Sarah Connolly (UK)

Giulietta - Marie Arnet (UK)

Tebaldo - Edgares Montvidas (UK)

Lorenzo -Henry Waddington (UK)

Capellio - Nikolai Didenko (UK)

‘Orpha Phelan directs an expectedly hard hitting and contemporary account of Bellini’s Romeo and Juliet opera...’

The Sunday Times, 2 November 2008

‘Orpha Phelan's imaginative staging, beautifully designed by Leslie Travers...’

The Observer, 26 October 2008

‘With the serene love scenes and the surrounding violence chillingly contrasted, this was hard hitting theatre.’

Opera, January 2009

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2008-09

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Read Orpha’s interview in Stage Whispers about Capuleti in Sydney