The first performance of MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet choreography on February 9th 1965 was applauded by the audience for 40 minutes in spite of the fact that Nureyev was recovering from an injury and danced with a bandaged leg. “Even with one leg, Mr. Rudolf Nureyev dances better than others with two legs!” wrote the enthusiastic critic at the “Times”. In spite of the fact that certain journalists criticised Nureyev’s over-blonde hair, most of the Press was excellent and Nureyev “captivated the public as usual”.
MacMillan’s production was accepted as one of the repertoire’s great classics and the couple continued to star both in London and in New York. Their performance was magnificently filmed by Paul Czinner in 1966. In 1990, Rudolf Nureyev came back to dance Romeo and Juliet for the last time at Covent Garden, but in the role of Mercutio, alongside Sylvie Guillem and Jonathan Cope, for a gala given in homage to – and for the benefit of – Dame Margot Fonteyn, who was suffering from bone cancer which required extremely costly treatment.
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Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
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