Romeo
and Juliet

Siergiej Prokofiew / Krzysztof Pastor

  • Act I

    1 h 30 min

  • Intermission

    30 min

  • Act II

    1 h 30 min

Duration: 3 h 30 min

Performances

Ballet in three acts
Libretto: Krzysztof Pastor, Willem Bruls after William Shakespeare
Premiere: 7/03/2014

Duration: 2 hrs 10 min. (including 1 intermission)

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.

Cast

2014-03-07 | 19:00

Credits

Sponsors

  • Sponsor premiery

  • Organizatorzy koktajlu

  • Partnerzy Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Partner technologiczny Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Partner Polskiego Baletu Narodowego

  • Patroni medialni Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Sponsor of the premiere

  • Organizers of the cocktail

  • Partners of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

  • Technological partner of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

  • Partner of the Polish National Ballet

  • Media patrons of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera