Romeo and Juliet
The Royal Ballet, 26th March 2019
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” So perfect is Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s choreography in the Balcony Scene of Romeo and Juliet that one can almost hear Shakespeare’s lines being spoken by the star-cross’d lovers over Prokofiev’s sumptuous score. Above soaring violins, in a series of stirring lifts, Juliet is literally turned head over heels in love, Romeo raising her high, “a winged messenger of heaven”.
Matthew Ball (Romeo) and Lauren Cuthbertson (Juliet)
© ROH | Helen Maybanks
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