Romeo and Juliet — The Royal Ballet (2019)
Prokofiev’s ballet in Kenneth MacMillan’s production, and not a word spoken.
Take the words away entirely and let the dancers and the score carry the story.
You come to stories through music and movement, and you would rather nobody explained anything.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the plot, told start to finish.
Changes: the language, into dance. Prokofiev’s score does what the verse does in the play.
Kenneth MacMillan’s choreography to Prokofiev’s score. Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball, recorded on 1 and 11 June 2019, Pavel Sorokin conducting.
Whose story is it?
the lovers’, told with their bodies. Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball dance them in this capture.
How much time does it ask?
149 minutes, recorded at the Royal Opera House in June 2019. Pavel Sorokin conducts.
The Royal Ballet, recorded 1 and 11 June 2019: Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball, conducted by Pavel Sorokin.
Where to find it
DVD — Royal Ballet and Opera shop
Borrow it free: Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Verona: Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) · Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) · William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)