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During the 1919 siege of the Vilna Soviet, Iulius and other Bolshevik leaders debate the Soviet’s role as rival socialist parties betray them and counter-revolutionaries seize the city. The leaders choose suicide rather than surrender.
A dramatic ballet based on Shakespeare’s tragedy. The movement sequence includes the street awakening, the lovers’ balcony scene and love dance, the public festivities and duels, Juliet’s bedroom and farewell, and the deaths of Mercutio, Tybalt, and Juliet. Prokofiev’s original ending was happy; the score was substantially revised for the 1940 Soviet production.
During the 1919 siege of the Vilna Soviet, Iulius and other Bolshevik leaders debate the Soviet’s role as rival socialist parties betray them and counter-revolutionaries seize the city. The leaders choose suicide rather than surrender.
A dramatic ballet based on Shakespeare’s tragedy. The movement sequence includes the street awakening, the lovers’ balcony scene and love dance, the public festivities and duels, Juliet’s bedroom and farewell, and the deaths of Mercutio, Tybalt, and Juliet. Prokofiev’s original ending was happy; the score was substantially revised for the 1940 Soviet production.