Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet in Vancouver

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The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is bringing the exquisite classical ballet, Romeo and Juliet, to a handful of Western Canadian cities this month including a stop in Vancouver.

Royal Winnipeg Ballet Romeo and Juliet in Vancouver
Photo: Amanda Green, Liang Xiang. Credit: Réjean Brandt Photography.

Romeo and Juliet in Vancouver

This enduring tale of love, longing and loss is choreographed by Rudi van Dantzig and set to Prokofiev’s masterful score. The impeccable classical artistry of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet will bring to life Shakespeare’s beloved star-crossed romance on stage at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.

Performances will be January 30th, January 31st, and February 1st, 2014 at 8:00pm plus a 2:00pm matinee on February 1st. Tickets are available now through Ticketmaster.

I have a pair of opening night tickets to give away as well, here’s how you can enter to win:

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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. The winner will receive tickets for the opening night performance on January 30th. Follow the Royal Winnipeg Ballet on Facebook and Twitter for more information.

Update The winner is Stephanie!

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69 Comments  —  Comments Are Closed

  1. VickyWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 2:39pm PST

    But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  2. KarenWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 2:47pm PST

    True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
    are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
    Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids
    to the wall.

  3. SabrinaWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 2:50pm PST

    “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

    Sniff, sniff… so sad…

    Would love to see this with my sister for our birthdays!

  4. Michelle MarieWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 2:59pm PST

    “My only love sprung from my only hate!
    Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
    Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
    That I must love a loathed enemy.”

  5. DianneWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 3:04pm PST

    Did my heart love til now? Forswear it, sight! For I never saw true beauty till this night.

  6. ConnieWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 3:17pm PST

    Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
    Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
    If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
    Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.

  7. VirginiaWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 3:22pm PST

    “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
    For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

  8. ShelleyWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 4:53pm PST

    “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.”

  9. ShirleyWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 5:19pm PST

    “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”

  10. Atlyn R BeckerWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 6:35pm PST

    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee
    The more I have, for both are infinite”.

  11. sadiaWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 9:24pm PST

    “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
    So romeo would, were he not romeo called retain that due perfection for which he owns.
    Oh romeo! Doff thy name and for that name that is no part of thee take all myself.”

    Committed to memory at an angst ridden 16

  12. KaWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 9:55pm PST

    Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
    That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  13. cindyWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 10:26pm PST

    My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  14. RyanWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 10:59pm PST

    my gf would love to see this

  15. BryanWednesday, January 15th, 2014 — 11:22pm PST

    “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”

  16. TracyThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 12:21am PST

    “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

  17. StephanieThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 7:45am PST

    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”

  18. Kelsey WThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 9:15am PST

    O Romeo, Romeo,
    wherefore art thou Romeo?
    Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
    Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
    And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

  19. Lori-Vancouver Airbnb SuperhostThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 9:42am PST

    It is the east and Juliet is the sun.

  20. WallyThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 11:17am PST

    “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
    Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”

  21. bjhThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 12:38pm PST

    Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

  22. SanazThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 1:16pm PST

    I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
    Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
    Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
    With this night’s revels and expire the term
    Of a despised life closed in my breast
    By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
    Romeo (1.4.13)

  23. Swapnil ShahThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 1:20pm PST

    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

  24. MarianneThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 2:23pm PST

    “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

  25. BrankaThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 2:31pm PST

    would love to win
    good luck everyone

  26. KYThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 2:36pm PST

    It is the east and Juliet is the sun

  27. EileenThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 5:24pm PST

    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

  28. mariaThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 5:34pm PST

    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

  29. Alice H.Thursday, January 16th, 2014 — 7:20pm PST

    Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.

  30. KateThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 8:30pm PST

    The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
    Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light

  31. AmyThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 9:13pm PST

    “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet.”

  32. Jen RThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 9:22pm PST

    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”

  33. KrissyThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 10:26pm PST

    “A pack of blessings lights upon thy back”

  34. KarlaThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 10:50pm PST

    Good night, goodnight. Parting is such sweet sorrow. That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

  35. KathleenThursday, January 16th, 2014 — 11:25pm PST

    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun

  36. staceyFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 6:32am PST

    But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun

  37. LucFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 9:41am PST

    It would be a great show to attend!

  38. LucFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 9:43am PST

    Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear
    That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—

  39. DoraFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 9:48am PST

    “Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,
    That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

  40. janFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 10:07am PST

    Thus with a kiss I die.

  41. DarcyFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 10:18am PST

    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun

  42. Stephanie GuzmanFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 10:41am PST

    It is the east and Juliet is the sun.

  43. Anne GuagliardoFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 10:45am PST

    Thus with a kiss I die.

  44. HannahFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 11:00am PST

    For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

  45. Jeff SFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 11:25am PST

    “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
    O, that I were a glove upon that hand
    That I might touch that cheek!”

  46. dbFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 12:31pm PST

    A plague o’ both your houses!

  47. VinceFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 12:42pm PST

    Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
    Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
    The unreasonable fury of a beast:
    Unseemly woman in a seeming man!

  48. AmyFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 12:47pm PST

    O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

  49. RhiannFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 3:45pm PST

    Juliet:

    What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  50. valerieFriday, January 17th, 2014 — 4:26pm PST

    I like this one:
    “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
    May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”

  51. Teresa KSaturday, January 18th, 2014 — 11:11am PST

    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”

  52. JulianSaturday, January 18th, 2014 — 7:03pm PST

    “Two households, both alike in dignity
    In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
    Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
    From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
    A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
    Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
    Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”

  53. Sherry FSaturday, January 18th, 2014 — 8:17pm PST

    “Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes
    With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead
    So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. ”

    Romeo

  54. Alecia LSaturday, January 18th, 2014 — 11:45pm PST

    Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,
    That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  55. rachelSunday, January 19th, 2014 — 1:25am PST

    “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
    For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

  56. LindaSunday, January 19th, 2014 — 11:07am PST

    Thus with a kiss I die.

  57. Leanne MSunday, January 19th, 2014 — 10:18pm PST

    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun

  58. Leanne MSunday, January 19th, 2014 — 10:19pm PST

    https://twitter.com/leanne_mac/status/425150414565019648

  59. wenxiaoMonday, January 20th, 2014 — 9:54am PST

    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

  60. MagMonday, January 20th, 2014 — 11:43am PST

    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”

  61. Erin WMonday, January 20th, 2014 — 12:42pm PST

    But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  62. AntoniaMonday, January 20th, 2014 — 11:07pm PST

    “My only love sprung from my only hate!”
    I would love to take my daughter to this performance.

  63. StotesTuesday, January 21st, 2014 — 6:36am PST

    But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  64. ErinTuesday, January 21st, 2014 — 11:47am PST

    “True, I talk of dreams,
    Which are the children of an idle brain,
    Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
    Which is as thin of substance as the air”

  65. santiTuesday, January 21st, 2014 — 1:53pm PST

    What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
    By any other word would smell as sweet

  66. MarkTuesday, January 21st, 2014 — 1:53pm PST

    Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,
    That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  67. MuskieTuesday, January 21st, 2014 — 2:54pm PST

    “Out vile jelly!”

  68. RubyThursday, January 23rd, 2014 — 11:24am PST

    “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
    For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

  69. Samantha CLarkFriday, January 24th, 2014 — 12:44pm PST

    “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

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