Last weekend we took a little cultural trip up Andrássy utca to Ybl's beautiful opera house to watch the ballet. Budapest's ballet has been showing Romeo and Juliet since 1985 and the company really did bring Prokofiev's score to life.
Never having been to the ballet before, I wasn't sure if the prima ballerina always receives 15 curtain calls and armfuls of flowers but based on the performance she gave, she probably deserved it.
The choreography was wonderful, especially the sword fights which managed to look convincing at the same time ad comedic elements - the Hungarian tradition of fencing schools and Olympic medals is alive and well.
The Opera house itself is stunning with beautiful frescos on the ceilings and golden adornments to the boxes. Everyone really gets into the spirit of things - dressing up to the 9s to make sure that the ballet has the poshness factor ramped up to the max!
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