Riccardo Muti leads the CSO, Chicago Symphony Chorus and international superstars Ekaterina Gubanova, Paul Groves and Dmitry Belosselskiy in Berlioz’s most romantic score, widely considered his greatest work. Romeo and Juliet is the French composer’s tribute to his beloved Shakespeare and to Harriet Smithson, the Irish actress with whom he fell in love when she played the role of Juliet.
 

Check out other Shakespeare 400 Chicago events from the CSO:

• Mahler 4, Tchaikovsky's The Tempest + Romeo and Juliet - April 14–24
• Falstaff - April 21–26
• CSO Chamber at the AIC: A World of Characters - May 1