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Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 2 : Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 2: "Ah! lève-toi, soleil!" by Benjamin Bernheim album cover

Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 2 : Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 2: "Ah! lève-toi, soleil!"

by Benjamin Bernheim

About This Song

About "Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 2 : Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 2: "Ah! lève-toi, soleil!"" by Benjamin Bernheim

Bernheim's tenor rises like dawn itself, pleading with the sun to wake. Gounod's balcony aria becomes a study in yearning restraint, orchestral strings trembling beneath a voice that aches toward light. Romantic ardor held in exquisite, breathless suspension.