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Ballet Pecs, Romeo and Juliet
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 October 2026 | ||||||
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Why is the 400-year-old story of Romeo and Juliette, the world’s best known romantic tragedy, still so relevant today? Because love is eternal, the rebelliousness of youth persists, and the world is still filled with inexplicable contraditions. Shakespeare’s immortal lovers now speak the language of dance in a Ballet Pécs production, in which they express desire, prohibition, passion and loss through movements instead of words. Balázs Vincze’s sensitive, dynamic choreography lays bare the entire spectrum of emotions, from the sudden blossoming of love to the unavoidable tragedy of death. Richárd Riederauer’s contemporary music inspired by Gounod’s classical work sheds new light on the story, while Balázs Cziegler’s set and Julcsi Kiss’s costumes create a world that is at once modern and timeless.
Program and cast
music: Richárd Riederauer, Charles Gounod
dramaturgs: György Böhm, Teodóra Uhrik
costume designer: Julcsi Kiss
set designer: Balázs Cziegler
co-choreographer, assistant: Zsolt Molnár
director-choreographer: Balázs Vincze
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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