Romeo and Juliet
Experience this reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous tale of star-crossed lovers, set to the renowned score of Sergei Prokofiev. Reimagined by Philadelphia Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Juliano Nunes, Romeo and Juliet follows the story of two young lovers from feuding families whose intense passion leads to their untimely tragic end.
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Juliano Nunes is Resident Choreographer with Philadelphia Ballet. He was trained at the Brazilian Dance Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro, furthering his studies at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts in Germany with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. He spent his dancing career with Royal Ballet of Flanders, Leipzig Opera Ballet, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and Stuttgart Gauthier Dance, working with such choreographers as William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon, Hans van Manen, Jirí Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Yuri Grigorovich, Akram Kahn, among others.
Nunes has gone on to receive critical acclaim for his own choreography and has created pieces for the Royal Ballet in London, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre 2, Rome Opera House, Acosta Danza, Philadelphia Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, Ballet Zürich Opera House, Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Staatstheater Hannover, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet West, Origen Festival Cultural, Teatro San Carlo, and Netflix’s “Tiny Pretty Things.” Nunes has created visual works with artists such as Penelope Cruz, Residente, and FKA twigs.
Customarily stingy with praise, Igor Stravinsky pronounced his compatriot, Sergei Prokofiev, the greatest Russian composer of his day – after himself. Like Stravinsky, Prokofiev decided at a young age that he would devote his life to music. At age 11, he enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied composition, piano, organ, and conducting. In 1913 he traveled to Paris and London, where he met Sergei Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes, under whose guidance the young composer wrote his first ballet score, Chout (The Buffoon). Prokofiev decided again to flee his war-torn homeland, but in 1936 made the fateful decision to move his family permanently to Moscow. A few short years later, his music, along with that of Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian, was labelled “degenerate” by the Soviet government. Relentlessly productive until the end of his life, Prokofiev composed seven symphonies, many concertos and sonatas, a great deal of film and incidental music, nine ballets (including Prodigal Son, Romeo and Juliet, and Cinderella) and fourteen operas.