After a careful summer, The Royal Ballet reopens its post-lockdown season with the packed stage of Romeo and Juliet. Passionate duets, wrangling families and Renaissance brawls come spilling across ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, set to the evocative score by Sergey Prokofiev, is one of the Royal Ballet’s best-loved works. Premiered in 1965, last night was the 537th performance, though ...

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Because there’s nothing quite like R&J for pulling a company together, with its teeming streetlife of squabbling servants, harlots and henchmen, its colourful elite and its stellar solo choreography, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - As a young aspiring ballerina, Francesca Hayward would repeatedly practice making an entrance as Romeo's Juliet, pretending her living room was a live auditorium. Years later, the ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet. Both his ...

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet continues to enjoy endless popularity, this being its third run by the Royal Ballet since 2019, but when the results are as good, there’s no reason why not.

All masked up: César Morales as Romeo and Mimoko Hirata as Juliet in Birmingham Royal Ballet's unique 1992 production of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet photo: Bill Cooper A box office hit since its ...

The core strength of this particular classic ballet lies in its narrative adapted from Shakespeare’s original text. Whilst some scenes are rushed through or complexities shortened, the essence of the ...

WOW! Birmingham Royal Ballet’s take on Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet is breathtakingly wonderful from staging to corps de ballet – and everything in between. Paul Andrews’ touring set is ...