Serge Prokofiev (1890-1953)

Roméo et Juliette (1935 -1936)

ballet in four acts and ten tableaux


stage work

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1935 - 1936
    • Video, installation (detail, author): Chorégraphie de Vania Psota.
    • Duration: 2 h 10 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Opus: 64
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Scénario de Sergueï Radlov, Adrian Piotrovski, Léonid Lavrovski et Serge Prokofiev d’après William Shakespeare.

Detailed formation
  • 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes (also English horn), 2 clarinets (also sopranino clarinet), bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, cornet, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, percussionist, celesta, piano, organ, 2 mandolins, 2 harp, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 30 December 1938
    Location:

    URSS, Brno, Théâtre Maren


    Performers:

    Quirino Arnoldi, direction.