Andrea Bocelli, the award-winning tenor and international cross-over superstar, returns to his first love grand opera with a starring role in one of the grandest operatic love stories of all time. Adapting Shakespeares immortal tale of young love blighted by family feuds, Gounods gloriously lyrical Romeo et Juliette stands alongside the composers earlier Faust as one of the supreme romantic masterpieces of 19th-century French opera. In a score that boasts a remarkable succession of tender, sensual and ultimately tragic duets for its two star-crossed lovers, Andrea Bocellis Romeo is partnered by the young Spanish soprano Maite Alberola as Juliet. Recorded live at the Teatro Carlo Felices lavish new production, this new recording of Gounods opera is conducted by top opera maestro Fabio Luisi, recently appointed to the prestige position of Principal Conductor at the worlds No. 1 opera house, the Metropolitan Opera in New York. With Andrea Bocelli leading the cast, this new recording of Romeo et Juliette should not only win over the hearts and minds of his millions of fans, but also attract a whole new audience to a new recording of a wonderful but relatively neglected score.