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News in a Flash

Date released

21 Feb 1955

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2567

NoS ID

154562

Story no

4 / 9

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Margot Fonteyn and husband.

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Margot Fonteyn - A Portrait (1989 Video)

aka: Margot Fonteyn

Director

Patricia Foy

Subject

Dance

Distribution

DVD

Margot Fonteyn presents a programme on her own career, which covered forty years and made her a Dame of the British Empire and a Prima Ballerina Absoluta.

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Gala Performance [18/03/1965] (1965 Television)

Series

Gala Perfornance

Producer

Patricia Foy

Classical music and dance acts performed in the television studio. Yehudi Menuhin introduces Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in a performance of the balcony scene (c 10 mins) from Romeo and Juliet. The New...

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Royal Ballet, The (2007)

aka: Evening with the Royal Ballet, An

Director

Paul Czinner

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £6.00

Filmed on the stage of The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1960, director Paul Czinner’s film showcases prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn in what was her first feature film. Partnered by Michael Somes,...

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Fonteyn and Nureyev: Ballet’s Legendary Partnership (2001 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

DVD

The 1997 version of the video, updated from a programme originally made in 1985, contains previously unseen footage of the ballet duo captured at their peak. Includes excerpts from ‘Romeo and Juliet’,...

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Queen’s Silver Jubilee Gala, The (1977 Television)

Producer

Brian Large

The Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet perform in the presence of members of the Royal Family in celebration of the Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee. Includes Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing Hamlet...

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Three Lectures on Ballet Appreciation (Television)

The filmed lectures by Ou Jian-Ping include the following clips: Sylvie Guillem, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paloma Herrera in versions of Romeo and Juliet. Desmond Richardson as...

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Genee Theatre

Date released

1967

Series name

Calendar

Issue no

204

NoS ID

324069

Story no

5 / 6

NoS synopsis: The Gala opening, featuring Margot Fonteyn, of the Adeline Genee Theatre in Sussex attended by Princess Margaret. Interviews with the Director of Production, Norman Tozer, and...

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Behind the Scenes with the Royal Ballet (1966 Television)

Director

Ion Voyantzis

Producer

Ion Voyantzis

Documentary on the Royal Ballet, focusing on rehearsals for Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Frederick Ashton’s Monotones. No.2. In voiceover commentary Ashton talks about the Company, the...

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Romeo and Juliet (1995 Television, Video)

Series

Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet

Director

Derek Diorio

Producer

Frank Augustyn; Neil Bregman

Educational television series on classical ballets created and hosted by Frank Augustyn. Using Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet adaptation of Romeo and Juliet as an example, Frank Augustyn and other dancers...

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