It's a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Shakespeare. Boy meets girl. Girl falls in love with boy. Families start fighting. Soliloquies are delivered. Soft light breaks through yonder windows ...

Juliet then pulls off a seeming bit of inspirational improvisation. She drags Romeo by his legs away from the cat, an act ...

Prokofiev's passionate ballet score to Romeo and Juliet combines the lightness of the love story and the tender emotions with music of real... Russian Valentine: Prokofiev's Romeo And Juliet Russian ...

Boston has seen many versions of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” ballet. The Kirov brought Leonid Lavrovsky’s 1940 Soviet première staging to the Wang Center in 1992. Over the past 40 years, Boston ...

NEW YORK — In 1935, Sergei Prokofiev made a devil’s bargain: He moved to the Soviet Union, chasing a lucrative offer to write any opera or ballet he wanted and an opportunity to take command of the ...

Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontzovka, in the Ukraine, on April 23, 1891, and died in Moscow on March 5, 1953. He composed the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” in 1935 and 1936, and compiled two orchestral ...

For ballet on a grand operatic scale, nothing else in Houston Ballet’s repertoire compares to Stanton Welch’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Reflecting the sonic decadence of Sergei Prokofiev’s beloved (and oh ...

Philadelphia Ballet has premiered a new version of 'Romeo and Juliet' by resident choreographer Juliano Nunes, blending classical ballet with contemporary sensibilities. The production retains ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its dramatic finest. Sergey Prokofiev’s famously evocative score is the driver for some of the most ardent ...