Love is a many-splendored thing – and in a corrupt world it blooms fast, burns bright and dies young.

Graeme Murphy is famous for bringing new life to classic ballets, and now he's tackled the greatest love story ever told: Romeo & Juliet.

Traversing time and place, Murphy's ballet follows "a feisty girl and a feisty boy who are willing to take a stand for their love". Young passion smoulders at its core, but Murphy also tackles the consequences of greed and war, and asks what happens to humanity when love dies.

This grand story is also grandly designed, with costumes by Australian fashion luminary Akira Isogawa and some of The Australian Ballet's most ambitious sets to date. The result is a masterpiece from first blush to final devastation.

"a game-changing ballet that leaves you begging for more"
The Daily Telegraph

"Murphy is a genius"
PerthNow

Romeo & Juliet (2011)
Choreography Graeme Murphy
Creative associate Janet Vernon
Music Sergei Prokofiev
Costume design Akira Isogawa
Set design Gerard Manion
Lighting design Damien Cooper

Costume creation for this production made possible by The James & Diana Ramsay Foundation.