Ballet “Giulietta”

Juliet, a true star of dance Eleonora Abbagnato, former étoile of the Paris Opera and director of the Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The show opens with a creation by Sasha Riva and Simone Repele, on the notes of Tchaikovsky, in which a blonde girl absorbed in romantic daydreams, a little Juliet of our days, sees reflected in her image as a young woman with her Romeo. The young woman is Eleonora Abbagnato, the girl is Julia Balzaretti (aged 10, daughter of the étoile); the present and the future merge and merge, together with the past, since in the end it will be the sixteenth-century lovers who will seal their love with death, while a strange guardian angel will mark the time with bicycle rides, taking away, in the end, the little Julia / Giulietta.The central piece of the evening sees a very romantic Eleonora Abbagnato, together with Michele Satriano, in a two step that the brilliant choreographer Uwe Scholz composed in 1988 for his ballet masterpiece Il Rosso e il nero, to the music of the Roméo and Juliette di Berlioz, reassembled by Giovanni Di Palma exceptionally for this occasion. At the end of the evening, among the protagonists, Eleonora Abbagnato, Davide Dato and Vsevolod Maievskyi will dance to the notes of the symphonic dances composed by Leonard Bernstein.