SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: TCHAIKOVSKY’S ROMEO & JULIET
March 22, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: TCHAIKOVSKY’S ROMEO & JULIET
Masterworks Sunday, March 22, 2026, 4:00 PM
Blaisdell Concert Hall
Dane Lam, conductor
George Li**, piano
Ballet Hawaii
Michael-Thomas FOUMAI Lady Dark
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Passions double and toil in trouble with a Tchaikovsky double feature! Dane Lam conducts the lovestruck Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture in collaboration with Ballet Hawaii, while Silver Medalist
Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra, 2025
of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, George Li, performs Piano Concerto No. 1. The Shakespeare Festival comes full circle, concluding with violent delights and violent ends, including Michael-Thomas Foumai’s Lady Dark, inspired by the Dark Lady Sonnets.