Romeo and Juliet - Sergey Prokofiev

Tha National Theatre

Premiere: 11/19/2006

Choreography: Youri Vamos
Conductor: Sergey Poluektov
Stage design and costumes: Michael Scott
Lights: Klaus Garditz
Staging: Joyce Cuoco, Alexei Afanassiev, Michal Matys
Ballet master: Veronika Iblová, Michaela Černá, Igor Žukov, Nelly Danko

Romeo: Michal Štípa / Alexandre Katsapov / Alexei Afanassiev / Matěj Urban j.h.
Julie: Ivana Mikešová / Adéla Pollertová / Magdalena Matějková
Merkucio: Oleksandr Kysil / Petr Strnad / Alexandre Katsapov
Tybalt: Jiří Kodym / Jiří Urban / Radek Vrátil
Benvolio: Viktor Konvalinka / Jiří Waňka
Paris: Richard Kročil / Mário Bakuš

Corps de ballet of the National Theatre, Orchestra of the National Theatre

Romeo and Juliet is the first ballet the world-famous choreographer Youri Vamos created for Ballett Deutsche Oper am Rhein (1997). He set the Italian Renaissance story of ill-fated love in the 1920s, the decade in which Sergei Prokofiev was composing the work. The joie de vivre and humanity of his characters, wit, tempo and excitement permeate the entire ballet together with extremely impressive and moving love scenes.

Running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes