Genre Opera/Dance
First Performance 03/08/2009
Closing 07/08/2009

The Mariinsky Ballet returns to the Royal Opera House to perform Romeo And Juliet, one of the most cherished ballets in its repertory.

Set to Prokofiev’s magnificent score, Romeo And Juliet portrays the bittersweet love of the star-crossed lovers from their first fateful meeting to their untimely and tragic deaths.

Danced by renowned Mariinsky ballerinas Alina Somova, Evgenia Obraztsova and Olesya Novikova, partnered by Andrian Fadeev, Vladimir Shklyarov and Igor Kolb, the most famous love story of all time, Romeo And Juliet, is presented in its original version by Leonid Lavrovsky, embodying all the drama and passion of Shakespeare’s text.

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