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Summary:

Given its premiere by The Royal Ballet in 1965 with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing the title roles, Kenneth MacMillan's first full-evening ballet has become a signature work for the Company, enjoying great popularity around the world. From the outset, the production teems with life and colour as the townspeople, market traders and servants of the rival Montagues and Capulets go about their daily business in vibrant crowd scenes. But Romeo and Juliet take centre stage for those great pas de deux: the meeting in the ballroom, the balcony scene, the morning after the wedding and the final devastating tomb scene. Although The Royal Ballet has performed Romeo and Juliet over 400 times, each performance and pairing is subtly different and Lauren Cuthbertson and Federico Bonelli are utterly captivating in the title roles.

Contributors:

MacGibbon, Ross , director

Wordsworth, Barry , conductor

Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 , composer

Royal Ballet

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : MacMillan)

Subjects:

Ballets

Genres:

Filmed ballets

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed November 13, 2015).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Performed Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (157 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

934522070

Other Control Numbers:

2714959 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP2714959/avon