Kenneth MacMillan - Romeo and Juliet (2005) [DVD9 NTSC]


Video: 4:3 NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Disc number: 1
Production year: 1984
Release year: 2005
Runtime: 128 Minutes
Labels: NVC Arts, Warner Music Vision
Artists:
The Royal Ballet Covent Garden
Alessandra Ferri
Dancer
Wayne Eagling
Dancer

Crew:
William Shakespeare - Writer
Sergei Prokofiev - Composer
Andrew MacMillan - Choreography



Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet has long been one of the greatest successes in The Royal Ballet repertoire, winning worldwide acclaim as an impassioned and thrilling view of Shakespeare's tragedy and of Prokofiev's glorious score.

His sensual choreography poignantly captures the conflict between blossoming love and cankerous revenge.

Romeo and Juliet calls upon the full forces of a great company of dance-actors to present the street fights of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in renaissance Verona, and also to convey the splendour of such scenes as the Capulet ball.

It also requires a ballerina and a premier danser able to express the raptures and despair that mark the young lovers' tragedy. In Alessandra Ferri and Wayne Eagling the roles are lived with tremendous intensity, whether soaring during the balcony pas de deux or caught in the last agonising moments in the Capulet vault.