Romeo & Juliet Presented by Miami City Ballet
Romeo and Juliet
CRANKO/PROKOFIEV
The world’s most famous love story! Miami City
Ballet brings to life the ultimate tale of romance
and tragedy – Romeo and Juliet – in an opulent
production set to Sergei Prokofiev’s throbbing
music, considered to be one of the greatest of all
ballet scores.
John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet is both
spectacular and intimate. Here we see a boisterous
crowd reveling in Verona’s town square; unrelenting
enemies dueling to the death in the street; a mortal
feud between the Montagues and the Capulets,
two of the city’s great aristocratic families; a pair
of “star-cross’d lovers” dancing in the moonlight.
We watch, breathless as the swoon and joy of
first love lead – inevitably, disastrously – to the
fatal desperation of the two young people who are
determined to remain together at all costs …
Be swept away by the beauty, hope and youthful
romance of this heart-breaking ballet.