Romeo and Juliet at Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Shakespeare immortalized them (1597), some used them to try to enter the pantheon, including Vincenzo Bellini (1830), Hector Berlioz (1839), and Charles Gounod (1867). More than 300 years after Shakespeare, Sergei Prokofiev (1936) performed a miracle – maybe because he got the cast to dance, and not speak or sing. Krzysztof Pastor has accustomed Warsaw audiences to his language in which lighting and space in constant motion play a major role – as if they were following the gestures and movements of the dancers. His choreography of Romeo and Juliet was created for the Scottish Ballet. The premiere in Edinburgh
aroused the enthusiasm of critics: “excellent production”, “exploding with passion”, “stroke of genius”, “breathtaking – a triumph”, wrote the British press. It makes us look forward with great anticipation to the Polish premiere of this ballet by Krzysztof Pastor, which will be presented
shortly afterwards by the famous American Joffrey Ballet.