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Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) - Definition and Overview

Romeo and Juliet is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on the play of the same name. Music from the ballet was extracted as three suites for orchestra and as a piano work.

Contents
1 Ballet
2 Ten Pieces for Piano
3 Orchestral Suites

3.1 Romeo and Juliet Suite No 1, Op 64
3.2 Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2, Op 64
3.3 Romeo and Juliet Suite No 3, Op 101

4 External links

Ballet

The ballet was composed from 1935-1936 as commissioned by the Kirov Theater.

Act I 
Scene 1
No 1 Introduction
No 2 Romeo
No 3 The street awakens
No 4 Morning Dance
No 5 The Quarrel
No 6 The Fight
No 7 The Prince gives his order
No 8 Interlude
Scene 2
No 9 Preparing for the Ball (Juliet and the Nurse)
No 10 Juliet as a young girl
No 11 Arrival of the guests (Minuet)
No 12 Masks
No 13 Dance of the Knights
No 14 Juliet's Variation
No 15 Mercutio
No 16 Madrigal
No 17 Tybalt recognizes Romeo
No 18 Departure of the guests (Gavotte)
No 19 Balcony : Scene
No 20 Romeo's Variation
No 21 Love Dance
Act II
Scene 1
No 22 Folk Dance
No 23 Romeo and Mercutio
No 24 Dance of the five couples
No 25 Dance with the mandolins
No 26 The Nurse
No 27 The Nurse gives Romeo the note from Juliet
Scene 2
No 28 Romeo with Friar Laurence
No 29 Juliet with Friar Laurence
Scene 3
No 30 The people continue to make merry
No 31 A Folk Dance again
No 32 Tybalt meets Mercutio
No 33 Tybalt and Mercutio fight
No 34 Mercutio dies
No 35 Romeo decides to avenge Mercutio's death
No 36 Finale
Act III
Scene 1
No 37 Introduction
No 38 Romeo and Juliet (Juliet's bedroom)
No 39 The last farewell
No 40 The Nurse
No 41 Juliet refuses to marry Paris
No 42 Juliet alone
No 43 Interlude
Scene 2
No 44 At Friar Laurence's
No 45 Interlude
Scene 3
No 46 Again in Juliet's bedroom
No 47 Juliet alone
No 48 Morning Serenade
No 49 Dance of the girls with the lilies
No 50 At Juliet's bedside
Epilogue 
No 51 Juliet's funeral
No 52 Death of Juliet

Ten Pieces for Piano

Prokofiev reduced selected music from the Ballet in 1937 as Romeo and Juliet: Ten Pieces for Piano, Op 75, which he premiered himself later that year.

  1. Folk Dance
  2. Scene: The street awakens
  3. Minuet: Arrival of the guests
  4. Juliet as a young girl
  5. Masquers
  6. Montagues and Capulets
  7. Friar Laurence
  8. Mercutio
  9. Dance of the girls with lilies
  10. Romeo and Juliet before parting

Orchestral Suites

Romeo and Juliet Suite No 1, Op 64

  1. Folk Dance
  2. Scene (the Street Awakens)
  3. Madrigal
  4. Minuet (the Arrival of the Guests)
  5. Masks
  6. Romeo & Juliet
  7. Death of Tybalt

Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2, Op 64

  1. The Montagues and Capulets
  2. The Young Juliet
  3. Friar Laurence
  4. Dance
  5. and Juliet Before Parting
  6. Dance of the Girls With Lillies
  7. Romeo at Juliet's Grave

Romeo and Juliet Suite No 3, Op 101

  1. Romeo at the Fountain
  2. Morning Dance
  3. Juliet
  4. The Nurse
  5. Aubade (Morning serenade)
  6. The Death of Juliet

External links
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