Romeo and Juliet, Royal Opera House, ballet review: An explosive yet creaking production
The Mariinsky Ballet opens its London season with radiant young lovers in a creaky old production. In the leading roles, Diana Vishneva and Vladimir Shklyarov are stellar as well as star-crossed, with ardent charisma and plush, expansive dancing. Leonid Lavrovsky's staging, created in 1940, is showing its age.