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The blog of conductor Jason Weinberger

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Valentine’s day, rooted as it is in violence, invites a revisiting of the old Veronese feud.

Juliet: 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 loathèd enemy.
William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene v [138-141]

Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet, Suite no. 2, the Montagues and the Capulets, opening
WCFSO – February 2008