TRAILER | ROMEO AND JULIET Prokofiev – Polish National Ballet

Two young lovers, offspring of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, value feelings above the past, pitting love and forgiveness against hatred and revenge. Upon his return from exile in 1936, Sergei Prokofiev transformed Shakespeare’s famous tragedy into a ballet with a happy ending. Soviet cultural officials did not agree, so Romeo and Juliet went on dying as before. In his Warsaw staging, Krzysztof Pastor relocates the action to the Italy of the 1930s, 1950s and 1990s respectively – proving yet again the timeless nature of this tragic story. Streamed on OperaVision on 16 April 2021 at 19:00 CET and available for 5 months: CAST Juliet Capulet: Yuka Ebihara Romeo Montague: Patryk Walczak Mercutio: Dawid Trzensimiech Tybalt: Maksim Woitiul Lord Capulet: Marco Esposito Lady Capulet: Ana Kipshidze Benvolio: Rinaldo Venuti Friar Laurence: Carlos Martín Pé