Mstudied Romeo and Juliet by the French author Gérard Presgurvik premiered at Bratislava’s Nová scéna Theater on March 22, 2013, and has been delighting audiences all over Slovakia ever since. Among the well-known faces of the Slovak music and theater scene who perform in the show is Peter Cmorik (45). In it, the former superstar plays the character of the monk Vavrinc.
They traveled with the show in the past few days to Považská Bystrica, where the singer experienced a minor embarrassment. “Only life knows this. I sing a heavy aria, and on the last high note, as I fall to my knees, I suddenly feel the gate open. And as I hold the long final note and the fabric is under tension, they slowly tear more and more. I know, the viewer can’t see it, but imagine the feeling. I didn’t reveal anything but I will remember that feeling forever. Look at the video,” he confessed and also attached a funny shot or video from the incriminating moment when he ended up with basically a bare ass. You can find a PHOTO in the gallery and a VIDEO at the beginning of the article!
The musical, which toured the whole world, premiered on January 19, 2001 in Paris, and in 2010 saw a renewed premiere. In the meantime, it was seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers in France, Switzerland, Canada, it was performed in Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Budapest, Moscow, Vienna, Bucharest, Seoul, Chinese Taipei, Japan and Shanghai.
Beautiful melodies and extremely challenging choreography, through which Shakespeare’s tragic love story of Roma and Juliet is retold, they make it one of the best musicals in the history of this theater genre.
“Gérard Presgurvik’s musical Romeo and Juliet is much less Shakespearean than people might think. My effort was therefore to return a piece of Shakespeare to our version, after all, Slovaks are more conservative viewers. Outside, they are more benevolent towards history, our viewer is more critical, stricter. It is not enough for him that the music is playing when Júlia sings, so he wants her to get out of the critical situation with something. Mr. Feldek is the Mozart of the pen for me, since I met him, for me he is a personality in which genius and high professional craftsmanship have met,” he once told TASR director and choreographer Ján Ďurovčík.
