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DANCE REVIEW

Novel touches in ‘Romeo and Juliet’

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe correspondent  

  November 05, 2011

With its passion, its poetry, its politics, and its profusion of richly drawn subsidiary characters, “Romeo and Juliet’’ is a natural for the dance stage. Couple Shakespeare’s play with Sergei Prokofiev’s acerbic, doom-drenched score and you would be hard pressed to find a better ballet. Certainly you would be challenged to find a better production than the one Boston Ballet opened at the Boston Opera House Thursday evening, where the stars were Misa Kuranaga’s feathery Juliet, Yury Yanowsky’s choleric Tybalt, and the Boston Ballet Orchestra.

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