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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

0.0 0 mins Music   2015
Royal Opera House  
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Release Date: 22 Tue, Sep 2015

Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its dramatic finest. Sergey Prokofiev’s famously evocative score is the driver for some of the most ardent pas de deux and powerful set pieces in ballet history. The vibrant crowd scenes with magnificent designs by Nicholas Georgiadis vividly recreate the color and bustle of 16th-century Verona in this Royal Ballet classic. “Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball will hug their first Romeo and Juliet their whole lives. What a dream debut for these two youngsters…” (The Spectator) “Kenneth MacMillan was a consummate storyteller, and in Romeo and Juliet he came as close to perfection as it’s possible to get.” (Culture Whisper) “From the quarrelling townsfolk to the stately ball guests, this is a Romeo packed with life, the whole company caught up in the ballet’s unfolding tragedy.” (The Independent)

Casts of Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Steven McRae

as Romeo

Sarah Lamb

as Juliet

Alexander Campbell

as Mercutio

Gary Avis

as Tybalt

Tristan Dyer

as Benvolio

Ryoichi Hirano

as Paris

Christopher Saunders

as Lord Capulet

Elizabeth McGorian

as Lady Capulet

Bennet Gartside

as Escalus, Prince of Verona

Lara Turk

as Rosaline

Genesia Rosato

as Nurse

Alastair Marriott

as Laurence Friar

Alastair Marriott

as Lord Montague

Sian Murphy

as Lady Montague

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