Real-life couple Jonathan Boyd and Malinda Haslett make beautiful music together as Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Plus, there’s sword fightingÂ.
Offstage romance translates into onstage magic in Utah Opera’s production of Charles Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Married couple Jonathan Boyd and Malinda Haslett are one of the most attractive pairs of leads to appear on the Utah Opera stage. What’s more important, they sing and act beautifully as well.
The instant love between Romeo and Juliet is, in its way, as illogical as the generations-old hatred that divides their families. Boyd and Haslett’s real-life relationship makes the connection completely believable and natural. For one thing, it gives director Nicolette Molnar an unusual degree of freedom in staging the bedroom scene. The marriage scene also is deftly staged; Boyd and Haslett amply convey the teenagers’ lovestruck giddiness, with an assist from Kurt Link’s kindly Friar Laurence.
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