Sergei Prokofiev
ROMEO AND JULIET
Youri Vamos' ballet based on play by William Shakespeare



Opening night:  53rd Split Summer Festival,  Peristyle, July 31 2007
Rerun: August 1,
 

Music:

Sergei Prokofiev

Choreographer and Director:

Youri Vámos

Set Designer:

Dinka Jeričević

Costume Designer:

Sonja Obradović

Light Designer:

Klaus Gärditz

Assistants to Choreographer: 

Joyce Cuoco, Uwe Schröter

Ballet Masters: 

Albina Rahmatullina, Vlodimir Šuvalov, Almira Osmanović

Stage Manager:

Irina Nikolenko

Lica:

Romeo:

Azamat Nabiullin

Juliet:

Monica Dinoni

Mercuzio:

Aydar Valeev

Benvolio:

Artem Zhusov

Tibaldo:

Lev Šapošnikov

Paris:

Dmitrij Rodikov

Signora Capuletti:

Albina Rahmatullina

Signor Capuletti:

Volodimyr Shuvalov

Signor Montecchi:

Mircea Hurdubae

Friar Lorenzo:

Ivica Medić

Tibaldo's bodyguards:

Remus Dimache, Romulus Dimache

Juliet's friends:

Nikol Marčić, Marijana Marević Muslim, Iryna  Chaban, Sonja Gaj, Jelena Zekić, Korana Bilan, Zvončica Gracin, Blanka Galić

Beggars:

Korana Bilan, Jelena Zekić, Zvončica Gracin, Rodika Namolosu

Troupe:

Nonna Čičinina, Sanja Nevešćanin, Tea Jelić, Tea Brbora, Kristina Burić, Sanja Kaliterna, Svjetlana Tušek (Roza Nastoska, Jolanda Ercegović), Igor Glushkov, Nikša De Marchi, Ivica Petrić, Roberto Pereira, Barbosa Junior, Genario Milite, Mario Buličić, Igor Čupković, Svebor Zgurić, Davor Čakarić

Children

Anastasia Šapošnikova, Klara Šitum,
Lea Bašić, Andriana Ćosić

Mihovil Lušić, Ante Bedalov, Ivan Milišić, Duje Sisarić, Marin Cecić,
Ivan Rako, Davor Lalić

Choreographer's word
Working on „Romeo & Juliette“ was a very exciting period of time for me filled with many surprises. It seemed to me like the most difficult task for someone working in the theatre. An author, for example Thomas Mann, writes approximately one page a day. A choreographer manages about 30 seconds a day. This time it was different. After finishing my concept I started working on the movements. This took me very little time. Why? Because the literary and musical originals are entirely unflawed! On one hand this is a great help, on the other hand it is an enormous task to do
Shakespeare’s & Prokofiev's great originals justice. Although the creative process took very little time, the rehearsals with the dancers took much longer. This drama doesn’t need “Primaballerinas” and “Danseurs-Noble” but actors that can express feelings with their bodies and can tell a story. It was a long and difficult working process to achieve this. The audience musn’t admire what they see on stage but has to become entirely absorbed in it. To be witty with humour, deeply emotional and strong with a sword in the hand
at the same time, has very little to do with the Sylphides and Willis of the Romantic Period. Split is an awe-inspiring city full of vital history. Having worked with the city’s ambitious and well lead ballet company I am looking forward to witnessing the performances of my ballet in the environment of the atmospheric Peristil and later in Split’s imposing opera house.  “Only those who move the heart will change the world”. This is the goal
I am trying to achieve and I am wishing us all an exciting theatrical experience.

Youri Vamos

Youri Vàmos belongs to rare European choreographers who follow the tradition of full-length ballet with determination. His interpretations are inventive, with a sense of humor and with a very deep sense of drama and music. He is much more attracted by so called classical ballets, above all due to the geniality of their music, but also for their drama context. The fact that hundred years ago classical ballet could not express completely psychological and character variety of main performers presented enough motivation for Vamos to create revised versions of well-known plays. However, he always stays faithful to the classical heritage as foundation for his art.
His artistic credo in presenting in contemporary way traditional topics is an obvious reason for his everlasting success in Deutsche Oper am Rhein. This big Ballet Company, expressing for years famous Vamos signature, has proved itself at numerous guest performances and constantly sold out ballet evenings in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. Thus it is no surprise that in the recent edition of History of Ballet of 20th Century Vamos was proclaimed probably the best choreographer-narrator of our times.
Year 2006 in a ballet way represented Vamos’ introduction with Slovenia and Croatia. Ballet Coppelia from Montmartre was the first Youri Vamos ballet performed recently in Croatian National Theater Ballet in Zagreb (premiere, October 27, 2006), and Vamos’ choreography of Romeo and Juliet (based on Shakespeare’s play and Sergey Prokofiev’s music) was performed in Slovenian National Theater in Ljubljana (February 11, 2006) and both of these performances were very well received by both the public and the critics, as for choreography courage and inventiveness, and for quality performances.
 

PRESS CLIPING:
STROJ ZA MLJEVENJE ZALJUBLJENIH, Branimir Pofuk, Jutarnji List, 02.08.2007.
APLAUZI NA OTVORENOJ SCENI, Svjetlana Hribar, Novi List, 02.08.2007.
LJUBAV U DOBA MAFIJE, Maja Đurinović, Slobodna Dalmacija, 02.08.2007.
SLIKOVITA ENERGIJA SPLITSKOG ANSAMBLA, Maja Stanetti, Večernji List, 02.08.2007.