Romeo & Juliet

With its passionate choreography, spine-tingling swordsmanship and celebrated score by Sergei Prokofiev, this colorful and emotional re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet has packed houses around the world. Helgi Tomasson’s bravura interpretation of the Bard’s tragedy “lifts Shakespeare’s complex and familiar language off the gilded pages and translates it into lucid classical choreography that is visceral, fresh, and ultimately sublime.” (Huffington Post)

Filmed on 5 and 7 May 2015 at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco.

Choreographer – Helgi Tomasson
Music – Sergei Prokofiev
Conductor – Martin West
Production and Costume Design – Jens-Jacob Worsaae Lighting Design – Thomas R. Skelton
Fight Scene Choreographer – Martino Pistone in collaboration with Helgi Tomasson
Directed for the screen by Thomas Grimm

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET

As America’s oldest professional ballet company, San Francisco Ballet has enjoyed a long and rich tradition of artistic “firsts” since its founding in 1933, including performing the first American productions of Swan Lake and Nutcracker, as well as the first 20th-century American Coppélia. San Francisco Ballet is one of the three largest ballet companies in the United States and currently presents more than 100 performances annually, both locally and internationally. The mission of San Francisco Ballet is to share its joy of dance with the widest possible audience in its community and around the globe, and to provide the highest calibre of dance training in its School. Under the direction of Helgi Tomasson, the company has achieved an international reputation as one of the pre-eminent ballet companies in the world. 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Helgi Tomasson’s tenure as artistic director of San Francisco Ballet.