"Romeo and Juliet" Necklace

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Description

“With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out”

This star-crossed lover’s quotation from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is engraved on a lovely rectangular pendant. Sterling silver, hand finished.

  • Sterling silver, hand finished
  • Pendant size: .375"w x 1.625"h
  • Chain: 18"


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History

Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

Perhaps the most enduringly successful of the many operatic settings of the world’s consummate love story, Roméo et Juliette is an excellent example of French Romanticism, a tradition that values subtlety, sensuality, and graceful vocal delivery over showy effects. In the opera there is a slight shift of focus away from the word games of the original play and a greater focus on the two lovers, who are given four irresistible duets, including a brief final reunion in the tomb scene that does not appear in the play.
World premiere: Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, 1867.

Composer
Charles Gounod (1818–1893) showed early promise as a musician and achieved commercial success with his opera Faust in 1859. Among his most famous works is a setting of the Ave Maria based on a piece by J. S. Bach.

Setting
In Shakespeare’s lifetime, Italy was a land of many small city-states in constant warfare with one another, but this same country was also the cradle of the Renaissance, with its astounding explosion of art and science. The image invoked by the story’s setting in the ancient city of Verona, then, is a beautiful but dangerous world where poetry or violence might erupt at any moment. The Met’s new production moves the action to the 18th century.

 

 

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