Romeo and Juliet... a story of love and loss so compelling, it has been adapted by no fewer than fourteen composers, but none with music so magical as the great Sergei Prokofiev. His spectacular music is merged here with the dance of the Bolshoi Ballet to make a work of unequalled beauty. When it was written in 1935, Prokofiev knew that a story so complex could not be captured by the light conventions of ballet and that a story so timeless need not be done as period piece. The result is a work with a power and resonance that"s distinctly Russian. Romeo and Juliet. Perhaps the perfect ballet - in a perfect performance captured on the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, featuring two of the Bolshoi"s most legendary soloists, Natalia Bessmertnova and Mikhail Lavrovsky.Romeo and Juliet. Truly a universal tale, and one never told more beautifully than here.