The film's opening credits were accompanied by the excerpt from the final act of Swan Lake.
[1] The first part of the short ballet piece called Les Sylphides by Frédéric Chopin, then re-orchestrated by Roy Douglas into canonical order: This was the first dual role of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev,[2] during the 1962 production was choreographed by Michel Fokine.
In the second part of 'pas de deux' from Le Corsaire by Adolphe Adam, Riccardo Drigo and others, choreographed by Nureyev himself during the 1962 production.
The last segment from the third act of The Sleeping Beauty composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
The score were altered by Lanchbery, which included "Trepak" (Russian Dance) segment from The Nutcracker.