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Romeo & Juliet - Soundtrack Music From Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film / Audio CD 1991 / Composed and Conducted by Nino Rota / Digitally Mastered / Cloud Nine Records
CNS 5000
UPC 5014929500027
MADE IN UK
TOTAL TIME: 50'57"
CONTAINS BOOKLET WITH COLOUR STILLS!
Condition of CD is used like new! THIS IS A SUPER RARE CD!
Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian romantic drama film based on the play of the same name, written 1591–1595 by famed English playwright / author William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (Pasqualino De Santis) and Best Costume Design (Danilo Donati); it was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture, making it the last Shakespearean film to be nominated for Best Picture to date. Sir Laurence Olivier spoke the film's prologue and epilogue and reportedly dubbed the voice of the Italian actor playing Lord Montague, but was not credited in the film.
The most financially successful film adaptation of a Shakespeare play at the time of its release, it was popular among teenagers partly because it was the first film to use actors who were close to the age of the characters from the original play. Several critics also welcomed the film enthusiastically.
Cast
- Leonard Whiting as Romeo Montague
- Olivia Hussey as Juliet Capulet
- John McEnery as Mercutio
- Milo O'Shea as Friar Laurence
- Pat Heywood as The Nurse
- Robert Stephens as The Prince
- Michael York as Tybalt
- Bruce Robinson as Benvolio
- Paul Hardwick as Lord Capulet
- Natasha Parry as Lady Capulet
- Antonio Pierfederici as Lord Montague
- Esmeralda Ruspoli as Lady Montague
- Keith Skinner as Balthasar
- Roberto Bisacco as Paris
- Bruno Filippini as Leonardo, the singer (uncredited)
- Laurence Olivier as Chorus and voice of Lord Montague (uncredited)
Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Track List:
1. Prologue & Fanfare For The Prince 1:48
2. Romeo 4:05
3. Juliet 1:34
4. The Feast At The House Of Capulet 2:07
5. Their First Meeting 2:51
6. What Is A Youth (Love Theme From "Romeo & Juliet") [Sung By Glen Weston] 2:26
7. What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? 2:56
8. Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow 2:40
9. But This I Pray...Consent To Marry Us Today 3:07
10. Romeo And Juliet Are Wed 1:44
11. The Death Of Mercutio And Tybalt 1:05
12. Night's Candles Are Burnt Out 4:29
13. Adieu 1:52
14. The Likeness Of Death 3:42
15. The Ride From Mantua 2:56
16. Death...Hath Sucked The Honey Of Thy Breath 1:49
17. Love Theme From "Romeo & Juliet" 3:05
18. O, Happy Dagger! 2:06
19. Epilogue 2:08
20. What Is A Youth (Reprise) 2:27
