Gramilano has just uploaded a video to YouTube with Margot Fonteyn and Ivan Nagy. They are dancing the balcony scene from George Skibine’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, which uses music from Berlioz’s choral symphony Roméo et Juliette. The extract was part of a gala in 1976, when Fonteyn was 57.
George Skibine’s first choreographic work was Tragedy in Verona, an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for the Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas in 1950 using Tchaikovsky’s ‘Overture-Fantasy’ of the same name.