Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House Sorokin - Romeo and Juliet - BLU-RAY

Kenneth MacMillan's passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at it's 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. InchYasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball will hug their first Romeo and Juliet their whole lives. What a dream debut for these two youngsters...Inch (The Spectator) InchKenneth MacMillan was a consummate storyteller, and in Romeo and Juliet he came as close to perfection as it's possible to get.Inch (Culture Whisper) InchFrom 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.Inch (The Independent)

55 years after it's premiere, the Stuttgart Ballet revisits John Cranko's legendary InchRomeo and JulietInch - the very choreography which laid the foundations for the InchStuttgart Ballet MiracleInch, the company's meteoric rise to fame. Vividly etched characters, breathtaking pas de deux, dashing sword fights, colorful ensemble scenes, magnificent sets and costumes evoking the sunlit streets of Verona - all this is Cranko's InchRomeo and JulietInch. John Cranko, who led the Stuttgart Ballet from 1961 until his death in 1973, created the choreography of InchRomeo and JulietInch especially for his ensemble. Set to Sergei Prokofiev's rich score, Cranko's ballet is one of the definitive versions of the Shakespearean love tale being performed around the globe today. This production is marked by yet another anniversary Marcia Haydee, Cranko's muse and prima ballerina, was the very first, highly acclaimed Juliet. Haydee, who followed Cranko as artistic director of the Stuttgart Ballet, participates in this performance as Julia's nurse, celebrating her 80th birthday on stage. She is joined by two other stars of the ensemble, Haydee's former dance partner Egon Madsen as Friar Lawrence and Artistic Director Reid Anderson as Lord Capulet. As danced by the Stuttgart Ballet - one of the world's leading ballet companies - this performance is Incha revelationInch (Daily Express).

Two lovers, united by fate but kept apart by an old family feud, who can only be together in death Shakespeare's timeless tale, set to ballet music by Sergey Prokofiev in 1935, needs no introduction. However, this production from the Ural Opera Ballet in Ekaterinburg, which won the prestigious Golden Mask Prize as InchBest BalletInch in 2017, adds interesting twists to this well-known frame, as choreographer Vyacheslav Samodurov sets his performance in a dance studio, during a rehearsal of the Romeo and Juliet ballet. This way, the characters of the play are placed out of a specific country or era the action could take place anytime and anywhere. It could even be happening in front of your window right now it is not by chance that the dancers reminded the audience of today's 'boys and girls from the Uralmash district', as some viewers have noted in social media. The motive of struggle between the two clans disappears from the performance - it does not matter which families the street fighters belong to. The concept of repetition and inexorability of the theatrical ritual plays a central part a tragedy is about to happen and the lovers will die today, but afterwards everyone will go home, a new rehearsal will start tomorrow, and the story will be repeated again from the start. With outstanding performances from principals Ekaterina Sapogova and Alexandr Merkushev, choreographer Vyacheslav Samodurov creates an intricate and surprisingly modern choreographical language that draws from classical movements but also from pantomime to best express the feelings and the drama at play in this eternal masterpiece.