Classical Ballet Romeo and Juliet. Balletto di Milano Russian National Ballet Theatre
Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Schedule for Romeo and Juliet. Balletto di Milano 2022
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky Choreography: Giorgio Madia
Orchestra: Symphony orchestra of the Summer Ballet Seasons
World premiere: 11 January 1940, Kirov Theatre, Leningrad, USSR
This year, which marks the Year of
Italy in Russia, the Russian and Italian Ministries of Culture are helping to
bring to Moscow Balleto di Milano headed by Carlo Pesto. The troupe will perform
the director’s version of “Romeo and Juliet”.
Performance
by Balletto di Milano The summary of the
ballet
Romeo Montekki, young person from Verona, is fallen in love
with the excellent lady Rosaline that, however, does not prevent him from
participating in merry tricks of his friends Mercutio and Benvolio, or in street
skirmishes between the representatives of two quarrelling families - Montekki
and Capulet. This hostility has already taken away dozens of lives. So, one more
fight takes place early in the morning, beginning with servants’ arguments. The
Duke of Verona tries to make peace between the heads of the two quarrelling
families, but in vain… He announces that from now on all the guilty will pay
their lives for any bloodshed.
In the Capulet’s house the nurse tries to
wake up her favourite. Juliette is naughty and doesn’t listen to her. Parents
enter the room. Signor and Signora Capulet remind the girls, that she is old
enough to meet her groom at today’s ball. He is Count Paris.
Dames and
knights are dancing at the ball. Romeo and his friends are also here. Secretly.
But having seen each other incidentally in the hall, Romeo and Juliette
understand that they have fallen in love at first sight.
Tibalt is quite
an aggressive person. He is Juliette’s cousin and he recognizes in Romeo a
member of the enemy family.
Romeo and Juliette meet at night and talk
about their love.
During the carnival Juliette and Romeo agree about a
secret wedding. The nurse is on their side. They ask monk Lorenzo to help them.
He marries them in hope that Romeo and Juliette’s unit will put an end to that
deathly feud.
Tibalt and Mercutio face each other among carnival crowd.
They are determined to use any chance for a quarrel that ends up with a fight on
swards. Romeo tries to calm them down, but in vain. Tibalt wounds Mercutio from
under Romeo’s hand. The wound is dangerous. The crown cries for their favourite
Mercutio. Romeo runs after Tibalt to take revenge for his friend and kills him
after a long and difficult fight. Juliette hears the noise and runs out. She
sees her cousin dying. Lorenzo takes Romeo with him to save from the Duke’s
fury.
At the dawn next day Romeo says farewell to Juliette and leaves
Verona. Juliette’s parents can’t make the girl marry Paris. Lorenzo suggests her
plan. Juliette will have some drink that will put her to a sleep that looks like
death. Meanwhile Lorenzo will let Romeo know about it. He will get into
Capulet’s family vault by the moment of Juliette’s awaking and will take the
girl from Verona for ever. Juliette agrees to marry Paris and drinks the
medicine.
Merry arrangements to the wedding are interrupted by the
nurse’s pitiful cries. She has found dead Juliette. The funeral moves to the
vault. But the news about Juliette’s death gets to Romeo earlier, than news from
Lorenzo. Romeo gets into the vault, says farewell to Juliette and commits
suicide himself. Juliette wakes up and sees his breathless body. She sees no
sense in living without her beloved. She throws Romeo’s sharp knife in her
heart.
Only over their children’s bodies the heads of Montekki and
Capulet forget about their bloody quarrel.
Music For Ballets Fragment 1 Fragment 2
Schedule for Romeo and Juliet. Balletto di Milano 2022
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