Romeo et Juliette: “Juliet’s Dream” (Orchestral Interlude)

Composer: GOUNOD, Charles

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  • This interlude, “Le sommeil de Juliette” [“The Sleep of Juliet”] occurs in Act 5 of the opera.
  • The scene is the tomb where Juliet is in a deathlike sleep under the influence of Friar’s Lawrence’s sleeping draught. Romeo discovers her in the next scene.1

Sources

  1. Charles Gounod, J. Barbier and M. Carré, Roméo et Juliette: Opéra en 5 Actes, Hector Salomon, trans., (Paris: Choudons, 1867), 246, IMSLP, accessed October 10, 2019, http://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e3/IMSLP21548-PMLP49624-Gounod-RometJulietteVSch.pdf

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