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PROKOFIEV

Romeo & Juliet
Lyon National Opera Ballet & Lyon National Opera Orchestra Kent Nagano, conductor
Arthaus DVD 100 246, region code 2 & 5.

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This is the third version of Prokofiev’s great ballet I have now seen on DVD – and immeasurably the best, even if it is sliced and cut to less than half its usual length. Warner have already issued the Nureyev production, classical and conservative in style and design, and suffering from the most lugubrious account of the music I have yet heard. It reminds one of wading through treacle. A horrendously cheap DVD release on Video Land Klassik (with just four chapters supporting more than two-and-a-half hours of music) purportedly dates from 1938 – yet is in such splendid colour (and sound) that this simply cannot be the case. It is, however, beautifully conducted,