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💔 Romeo and Juliet in full from The Royal Ballet #OurHouseToYourHouse
- Published_at:2020-07-10
- Category:Entertainment
- Channel:Royal Opera House
- tags: Royal Opera House London opera music classical music ballet dance theatre Royal Opera Royal Ballet theater Covent Garden performing arts arts stage west end teatro musical culture art entertain ballerina Shakespeare dancing tutu pointe Romeo and Juliet free stream ROH Matthew Ball yasmine Naghdi Kenneth MacMillan OurHouseToYourHouse
- description: Join The Royal Ballet for a premiere stream of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo in Juliet, as part of our #OurHouseToYourHouse series, starring Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball as Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers. 👍 Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for notifications about future streams ⏲️ This video will be available on-demand until 24 July 2020 📶 Occasionally, slow connection speeds locally may cause buffering. If this happens, reduce the picture quality to suit your connection by clicking on the gear icon, and then selecting an alternate option under 'quality' -- 🙏 This crisis is impacting theatres and venues across the globe. In this uncertain time, and as productions and events are postponed at the Royal Opera House and around the world, we're offering a schedule of free broadcasts and live content that audiences can access for free anywhere, anytime across the globe, bringing both ballet and opera to every home and every device. If you are able, please consider making a donation to help sustain our Royal Opera House community: http://www.roh.org.uk/donate-now Alternatively, you can also donate by text: 📱 Text ROH 20 to 70450 to donate £20 📱 Text ROH 10 to 70450 to donate £10 (UK only. Texts cost donation amount plus 1 standard message) We also invite you to sign up for a free trial on Marquee TV, the international multi-genre performing arts streaming service. -- 🎭 Cast & creative team: Juliet: Yasmine Naghdi Romeo: Matthew Ball Mercutio: Valentino Zucchetti Tybalt: Gary Avis Benvolio: Benjamin Ella Paris: Nicol Edmonds Lord Capulet: Christopher Saunders Lady Capulet: Christina Arestis Artists of The Royal Ballet Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Conductor: Pavel Sorokin Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan Music: Sergey Prokofiev Designer: Nicholas Georgiadis Lighting designer: John B. Read -- 💡 Background: Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate and nuanced choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its dramatic finest. The dancers playing the star-crossed lovers of the title have a wealth of opportunity for powerful interpretation, not least in the celebrated pas de deux. Around them, the whole Company creates the colour and action of Renaissance Verona, where a busy market bursts into sword fighting and a family feud leads to tragedy for the Montagues and Capulets. Prokofiev’s beautiful score sweeps this dramatic ballet towards its inevitable, emotional end. In 1965, MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet was given its premiere at Covent Garden by The Royal Ballet and was an immediate success: the first night was met with rapturous applause, which lasted for 40 minutes, and an incredible 43 curtain calls. The title roles were danced by Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, although the ballet had been created on Christopher Gable and Lynn Seymour. It has been performed by The Royal Ballet more than four hundred times since, as well as touring the world, and has become a true classic of the 20th-century ballet repertory. -- 📖 Synopsis (contains spoilers): Romeo and Juliet fall passionately in love, but their families are caught up in a deadly feud. They marry in secret, but tragic circumstances lead Romeo to kill Juliet’s cousin Tybalt in a fight. As punishment, Romeo is banished from Verona. Juliet’s parents try to force her to marry Paris, so she resorts to drastic action. She drinks a sleeping potion that will feign death, a deception that will enable her to escape and join Romeo. But her message explaining this fails to reach Romeo. On hearing of her reported death, he secretly returns to Verona and her tomb, where he kills himself. When Juliet wakes it is to discover Romeo dead. Devastated, she stabs herself. -- 🙏 With warm thanks to Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet (Season Principal), Coutts, The Kirsh Foundation, Julia and Hans Rausing, Friends of the Royal Opera House and all the supporters of The Royal Ballet -- 📀 This recording is also available on Opus Arte DVD: https://naxos.lnk.to/OA1100D-OABD7116DUK!ROHstreamID Also available from Opus Arte: 📀 Tchaikovsky: The Tsarina's Slippers (The Royal Opera) Based on Gogol’s fantastical and comic story of the Devil’s antics on Christmas Eve, this magical blend of opera and ballet is brought to vivid life in Francesca Zambello’s colourful production. Magnificent set designs (Mikhail Mokrov) and costumes (Tatiana Noginova), and an excellent, largely Russian cast provide authenticity. https://naxos.lnk.to/OA1037D-OABD7073DUK!ROHstreamID 📀 Mayerling (The Royal Ballet) The large-scale crowd and court scenes show the whole Company off at its dramatic finest. But it is MacMillan's choreography for Rudolf, one of the most technically and emotionally demanding roles in the repertory for male dancers, that makes this ballet so iconic - choreography that pushes classical ballet to its limits. https://naxos.lnk.to/OA1287D-OABD7257DUK!ROHstreamID
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