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Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set-among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...
...opener. The committee began with the idea of using the Louvre's 3½-acre Cour Carrée, one side of which is dominated by a superb Renaissance clock tower. What could be more appropriate than to stage a version of the Renaissance tale of Romeo and Juliet? And what treatment of that theme could be more grandiose than French Composer Hector Berlioz' half-symphony, half-opera, written in 1839? Berlioz composed his work for a chorus and three solo voices, but they are minor roles-he gave neither Romeo nor Juliet a word to sing...
...performance was a superlative success. Under the softly hazy sky of a summer evening in Paris, the dancers spilled and splashed across the stage and the wide staircases. A second-story window in the Louvre, on a level with the top layer of the stage, served both as Juliet's balcony and the entrance to the Capulets' palace. The three-level arrangement provided scope for graceful choreographic invention. In a pas de deux, George Skibine danced the yearning Romeo on the lowest stage while his wife, Marjorie Tallchief, danced Juliet on the highest...
Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set -among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...
Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set-among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...