Romeo & Juliet by Helgi Tómasson, music by Prokofiev
Maria Kochetkova (Juliet), Davit Karapetyan (Romeo), Pascal Molat (Mercutio), Joseph Walsh (Benvolio), Luke Ingham (Tybalt) — San Francisco Ballet
Cast
Helgi Tómasson — Choreographer
Jens-Jacob Worsaae — Costume designer, scenography
Thomas R. Skelton — Lighting
Maria Kochetkova — Juliet
Davit Karapetyan — Romeo
Pascal Molat — Mercutio
Joseph Walsh — Benvolio
Program notes
With its passionate choreography, spine-tingling swordsmanship, and celebrated score by Sergei Prokofiev, this colorful and emotional retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet has packed houses around the world. Longtime creative director Helgi Tómasson’s bravura interpretation of the Bard’s greatest tragedy “lifts Shakespeare’s complex and familiar language off the gilded pages and translates it into lucid classical choreography that is visceral, fresh, and ultimately sublime” (Huffington Post).
