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‘Living people can dance, the dying cannot’, Prokofiev wrote to explain the problems he faced when writing music for the ballet Romeo and Juliet. His original score was rejected as ‘undanceable’ by the Bolshoy Theatre and his initial scheme for a happy ending for the lovers was, fortunately, vetoed. The revised score, however, proved a masterpiece of expressive beauty and drama, with melting love music and huge bravura, and it remains one of the most loved ballet scores of the twentieth century.
Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
Act I: Introduction
Act I: The Street Wakens
Act I: Morning Dance
Act I: The Young Juliet
Act I: Masks
Act I: Dance of the Knights
Act I: Mercutio
Act I: Madrigal
Act I: Gavotte
Act I: Balcony Scene
Act I: Romeo's Variation
Act I: Love Dance
Act II: Dance with Mandolins
Act II: Romeo at Friar Laurence's
Act II: Public Merrymaking
Act II: The Duel
Act II: Death of Mercutio
Act II: Finale
Act III: Introduction
Act III: Romeo Bids Juliet Farewell
Act III: Aubade
Act IV: Juliet's Funeral
Act IV: Juliet's Death
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