Rudolf Nureyev's - Romeo & Juliet - Sergei Prokofiev / Ballet De L'Opera De Paris, Monique Loudieres, Manuel Legris / NVS Arts DVD Video CD 1997 / 0630-15154-2

UPC 0706301515426

Picture Format: 4:3 (16:9)

Region Code: 2/3/4/5/6

Disc Format: DVD-9

Total Time: 150 mins.

Rudolf Nureyev's production of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet premiered at the London Coliseum on 2 June 1977.

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet—from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken—and Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created—excluding juvenilia—seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas.

Romeo and Juliet (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. First composed in 1935, it was substantially revised for its Soviet premiere in early 1940. Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work.

Ballet in three acts

Juliet - Monique Loudieres

Romeo - Manuel Legris

Tybalt - Charles Jude

Mercutio - Lionel Delanoe

• Orchestra - Orchestre De L'Opera National De Paris
• Conductor - Vello Pahn