The Latest Breaking News from Frederick Ashton

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Sadler’s Wells dancer who was a snake in Tiresias, a goat in Sylvia and an autumn fairy in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2

La Fille mal gardée at the Royal Ballet review: a real live pony on stage? Five stars!

5/5 This 1960s ballet from Frederick Ashton is endearingly bucolic

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2025

‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025

The Royal Ballet: Ashton Celebrated review – a world where everything is just delightful

Launching a four-year celebration of Frederick Ashton’s genteel ‘English style’, this triple bill is full of refined beauty and pleasure – though with athleticism visible below the surface

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

Work hard, play hard: final bow after 22 years of dance

Australian Ballet dancer Amy Harris says there will be happiness and tears when the curtain falls on her 22 year career.

AAP · Nov 10, 2023

The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more

Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first time

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2023

Frederick Ashton: Links in the Chain review – fascinating study of a master choreographer

Lynne Wake’s film about Ashton, available online, is a compelling glimpse into the way his great works are reinterpreted by new generations of dancers

The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2023

Cinderella review – Ashton’s classic fairytale with extra frills

Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov and company shine – as do their costumes – in the Royal Ballet’s over-the-top new design of this intricate work

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2023

Cinderella review – Royal Ballet fairytale is a shiny sugar-rush

Ashton’s three-act ballet combines escapism, clever classicism and panto, and this new version gets better as it goes along

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2023

Cinderella at the Royal Opera House review: this lavishly redesigned show is magical, lovely and oh so English

In Frederick Ashton’s take on the fairy tale, romance is tempered by comedy, elegance by eccentricity

Evening Standard · Mar 28, 2023