Romeo

Over 20 years with the company, he danced leads across several productions, including Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet.

Gold, who has been deconstructing his way through the Shakespeare canon, has delivered a “Romeo + Juliet” in the form of rave.

The surreal, visually hypnotizing production by Italian director Romeo Castellucci made little effort to make narrative sense.

When Tony Romeo and his crew saw the bright yellow shape resembling a cross on their computer, they thought they had answered one of the great mysteries of the 20th century.

Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Opera revived a lavish production of Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet,” written two years earlier than “The Stone Guest.”