Star-crossed Lovers Plus, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi's 4-Violin Concerto

 

Relive the timeless tale of star-crossed lovers through Prokofiev’s masterful music for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet." Here actors and dancers reinstate Prokofiev’s original happy ending which was banned by Joseph Stalin in favor of Shakespeare’s tragic finale.

The Thursday-Saturday concerts also include the principal violinists of Pacific Symphony igniting Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins and Principal Cellist Timothy Landauer breathing passion into Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.

Hal & Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series

Romeo & Juliet

Thu-Sat, April 16-18 at 8 p.m.
Preview Talk at 7 p.m.

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

 

Carl St.Clair, conductor
Joseph Horowitz, artistic adviser

 

VIVALDI: Concerto for Four Violins
Raymond Kobler, Paul Manaster, Jeanne Skrocki and Bridget Dolkas, violin

TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Timothy Landauer, cello

PROKOFIEV: “Romeo and Juliet”
Rich Wordes and Amy Hitchcock, actors
David Tai Kim and Keira Schwartz, dancers
Lorin Johnson, choreographer

Concert sponsors (4/18): Symphony 100

Prefer a matinee? Try

Romeo & Juliet: Happy Endings
Sun, April 19 at 3 p.m.
PROKOFIEV: “Romeo and Juliet”

 

How Should the Story End?

Join us for a discussion: “Romeo and Juliet: How Should the Story End?,” 1–2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 19 in the Judy Morr Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, featuring Joseph Horowitz and UC Irvine Professor Julia Lupton, as well as the two actors. Using film clips, they explore the different ways in which the lovers’ tale has been told, with special attention given to Prokofiev’s translation of an Elizabethan tragedy into a Soviet ballet.

Please RVSP to: skey@pacificsymphony.org.