La Fille mal gardée sounds like the title of a naughty French boulevard farce, but Frederick Ashton’s ballet, designed by Osbert Lancaster, could not be more English. Pastorally pure and innocent, it ...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber has done much better than this; but everybody will want his Cinderella to succeed. It was meant to open in 2020. It has had a terribly bumpy and much delayed opening, all due to Co ...
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This performance of Frederick Ashton’s ballet at the Royal Opera House with Marianela Nunez, Carlos Acosta, Will Tuckett and Jonathan Howells dates from 2005. The original scenario was created by Jean ...
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Cinderella has been a popular pantomime ever since its very first spectacular production in 1830 at Drury Lane starring Joseph Grimaldi, the great clown of the Regency era. There have been many versio ...
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