JULIET AND ROMEO - Balletto di Roma

Romeo and Juliet, a classic signed by choreographer and director Fabrizio Monteverde, is back on stage. This work debuted at the Carlo Felice in Genoa in 1989 for the Balletto di Toscana and was revived by the Balletto di Roma in 2002.

Performed over the last twenty years, Romeo and Juliet is now being staged again to celebrate this anniversary, and so it proves itself to be over time one of the most successful titles in the Roman company's repertoire, with a record number of performances and box-office audiences.

The city of Verona, of the unhappy lovers by William Shakespeare becomes in Monteverdi's version a dark and dusty South, back from a war and at the dawn of a revolution: a decrepit wall keeps the memory of a world conflict that wiped out morality and sentiment, and - resounding as never before - announces, beyond the rubble, a future of rebirth and reconstruction.

A daring manipulation of the original work that insists on the universal sentiments and ideas which still resonate with Shakespeare's readers today, and which resonate even louder in their translation into dance, through the energetic and sweeping style of choreographer Fabrizio Monteverde.

GIULIETTA E ROMEO

Balletto di Roma
Balletto in two acts
freely based on William Shakespeare's tragedy
Choreography Fabrizio Monteverde
Music Sergej Prokof’ev
Set designFabrizio Monteverde
Lighting design Emanuele De Maria