ROMEO AND JULIET - Full ballet with Rudolf Nureyev & Margot Fonteyn, music by Sergei Prokofiev, 1966

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ROMEO AND JULIET is a ballet with music by Sergei Prokofiev and is perhaps best known for the performance by Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. The ballet follows the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers from feuding families in Verona.

This film is the 1966 famed Royal Ballet production of ROMEO AND JULIET. This historical performance stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev as the quintessential stage lovers. It captures the greatest dance partnership of our century at the peak of their careers.

Fonteyn and Nureyev's performance has been critically hailed as "perfection in movement which
epitomizes the freedom beyond technical mastery. It expresses itself as poetic lyricism.
ROMEO AND JULIET features Sergei Prokofiev's music, recognized as the first great full-length ballet score since Tchaikovsky's classics. The choreography of Kenneth Macmillan is acknowledged as the reason for the ballet's successful transfer to the film medium.

JOSEPH E. LEVINE presents a PAUL CZINNER Production with
DAVID BLAIR
DESMOND DOYLE
JULIA FARROW
MICHAEL SOMES
Music by SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Choreography by KENNETH MACMILLAN
Scenery and Costumes by NICHOLAS GEORGIADIS
THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTED BY JOHN LANCHBERY
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY PAUL CZINNER

Enjoy this beautiful production.

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