THE SLEEPING BEAUTY has a special place in Royal Ballet’s collective heart. It was this ballet, which re-opened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II. Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann sta ...									
								
								
									
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										ROMEO AND JULIET, the most popular love story in the world, has inspired so many plays, novels, poems, operas, musicals, symphonies, paintings, sculptures and films. I had the opportunity to see Shake ...									
								
								
									
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										Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Evidently not Wayne McGregor. Many others have attempted to stage and film her works and failed. McGregor’s three one-act ballets inspired by her novels, Mrs Dalloway,  ...									
								
								
									
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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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