SundayArts News - 2008 NYC Ballet Romeo and Juliet 1-62 was released on:
U.S. Virgin Islands: 26 July 2009
USA: 26 July 2009
The Bolshoi Ballet Romeo and Juliet - 1976 TV was released on: USA: 27 June 1976
Sergei Prokofiev composed Romeo and Juliet in 1935 by commission from the Kirov Ballet.
Words. Shakespeare has them. Ballet does not.
Sergei Prokofiev wrote the most famous ballet music based on Romeo and Juliet, and he did also write ballet music for Cinderella.
There are many venues that are hosting the ballet of Romeo and Juliet. The Auditorium Theater in Chicago, Illinois will host this performance many times next year.
Which Romeo and Juliet are you talking about? Romeus and Juliet the poem by Arthur Brooke? Romeo and Juliet the play by William Shakespeare? Romeo and Juliet the Symphonic Poem by Tchaikovsky? Romeo and Juliet the ballet by Prokofieff? Romeo and Juliet the song by Dire Straits? All of them are original works even though they are all about the same story.
The music was written for a ballet.
There is no ballet in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Although a dance interlude was inserted into the tragedy Macbeth (probably by Thomas Middleton), Shakespeare's tragedies do not usually include dances, and certainly not ballet. In this respect they differ from Moliere's plays, in which ballet breaks figure prominently. Sergei Prokofieff wrote music for a ballet of Romeo and Juliet which is quite popular and often performed. In this case, everything that happens is an "incident during the ballet".
Romeo and Juliet was a play, written by William Shakespeare who was a playwright, not a composer.Romeo and Juliet has also been set to music. Russian composers Tchaikowsky and Prokofiev each wrote a ballet called Romeo and Juliet.
No, Frederick Ashton did not choreograph "Romeo and Juliet." The most well-known choreography for this ballet was created by Sir Kenneth MacMillan for the Royal Ballet in 1965.
Information on Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet can be found on several articles on About's Dance section. There are also Youtube recordings of sections and reproductions if you wish to familiarize yourself with the event, or you can download it from iTunes. The score for the ballet can be found on sites like All Music or Classical Archives. Several biographies have been written about Sergei Prokofiev which include annotations on the Romeo and Juliet ballet, by authors like Simon Morrison, David Nice and Claude Samuel.
Romeo and Juliet in Harlem - 2014 was released on: USA: 2014