Organization

Conductor

Pekka Kuusisto

Instrumentalist

Clarinetist

Martin Fröst

Clarinet

Southbank Centre

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Romeo & Juliet Forever: Pekka Kuusisto conducts

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Romeo & Juliet Forever: Pekka Kuusisto conducts: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (+3 More)

Public

Private

The Capulets and the Montagues

Weathered

Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Approved

South Bank Centre

As long as teenagers fall in love, the story of Romeo and Juliet will never go out of fashion.

Pekka Kuusisto brings together three composers’ takes on Shakespeare’s story, from the ‘Sinfonia’ that opens Bellini’s 1830 opera The Capulets and the Montagues, to Bernstein’s 1957 Broadway triumph West Side Story. Bellini’s trumpets and drums foretell a fatal battle, Tchaikovsky frames his yearning love theme with music full of anxiety and violence. And Bernstein captures the febrile energy and passion of adolescence in memorable numbers including ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Mambo’.

“Until you’ve heard Martin Fröst, you really haven’t heard the clarinet”, according to The Times. Well now’s your chance – the extraordinarily talented Fröst is the soloist in a new concerto, Weathered, by our Featured Composer Anna Clyne. The concerto is in five short movements, each describing a different material being weathered – worn down, re-shaped, damaged, but perhaps also rendered more beautiful and more precious.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Co-Producer