Wroclaw Opera. Innocence in the points of 'Romeo and Juliet' by S. Prokofiev | 24.01.19

From the first moments of the playing orchestra of the Wroclaw Opera, the beauty of Sergei Prokofiev's romantic drama opens up. It is live music that is the key to a light uplift in the stage space of the story on the points of the fates of Shakespeare's work and highlighting all the emotions hidden in the music, adding expression and the proper character to the characters.
Against the symbolic scenography of the Wroclaw ballet dancers, one cannot take their eyes off. Are these dancers from the Wroclaw Opera asked foreign guests occupying seats in the boxes.
Without words, only feelings, dreams and everything expressed in gesture, in faces, in the whole body, in shades of gray and white with a touch of blue and so incredibly subtly yet with expression.
Life stairs placed in the central part of the scenography - it is on these stairs that fascination begins, admiration, loss, symbolic stopping of Juliet's life - life stairs of innocent love of Romeo and Juliet, all in captivating harmony: costumes, scenography, stage movement.
The mutual interpenetration of scenes, the mutual interpenetration of music under the baton of Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski and the created images not only opening the art depicting the heroes, but those painted with gestures on the stage - Jacek Tyski choreography.

During the January evening, they delighted:
Montague Family:
Father - Charalampos Skoupas
Mother - Weronika Kwiatkowska
Romeo - Robert Kędziński
Mercutio - Łukasz Ożga
Benvolio - Andrzej Malinowski
Balthasar (Romeo's servant) - Pablo Martinez Mendez
Capulet Family:
Father - Alexander Joshua Negron
Mother - Natsuki Katayama
Juliet - Hannah Cho
Tybalt - Won June Choi
Juliet's Nurse - Anna Szopa-Kimso
Samson, Capulet's servant, Tybalt's friend - Gabriele Lucci
Gregory, Capulet's servant, Tybalt's friend - Ludovico Tambara
Paris - Sergi Martinez Castello
Escalus - Prince of Verona - Sergi Martinez Castello
Father Laurence - Daniel Agudo Gallardo
Ballet and Orchestra of the Wroclaw Opera

Iwona Karpińska