Romeo and Juliet

About the show

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.