Ballet Lovers

Romeo and Juliet is a ballet based on the celebrated Shakespeare’s work. Tragic love stories have populated the literary universe forever. But this story is the most famous, the most represented. And the one that still manages to move because of its sensitivity . It is probable that William Shakespeare based on other stories written years before when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. For example, in the 14th century, the famous Dante Alighieri had mentioned Montagues and Capulets in his Divine Comedy. On the other hand, Shakespeare describes the scene with incredible ease. That may be because the author had spent a period in northern Italy fleeing the plague striking London at that time. When was Romeo and Juliet ballet first performed? This masterpiece of Russian choreography didn’t have an easy start. The Moscow Bolshoi commissioned this ballet from Prokofiev in 1934. The composer worked on the libretto with Sergei Radlov, a great connoisseur of Shakespeare’s work. At first, they thought of...