Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When our national ballet was still young, Heaven and Dame Ninette de Valois (many of us believed they were close ...

The Royal Ballet will present Frederick Ashton's LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE for ten performances at the Royal Opera House, featuring ...

Frederick Ashton’s light-hearted evocation of provincial life, La Fille Mal Gardee, has been a favourite of the Royal Ballet since its first performance in 1960. It tells the story of Lise, the ...

Jean Dauberval's La Fille mal gardée, which was first presented in Bordeaux, France in 1786, was a milestone for ballet, as it was one of the first based on real-life folk rather than mythology or ...

The Royal Opera House continues to treat us to a fortnightly fix of ballet - and what relief this latest edition is. After some rather sombre, heavier narrative works, the froth and joy of Frederick ...

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée is classical ballet’s supreme romantic comedy: a heartfelt tale of benignly illicit young love, but also a giddy whirl of dancing chickens, halfwit suitors and ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. The Royal Ballet opened its 70th season at Covent Garden this week with Frederick Ashton’s joyous La ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Autumn may be coming, but there’s endless sunshine in La Fille mal gardée. Warmth comes glowing off the stage in this Royal Ballet ...

Showing exclusively at the Eden Cinemas on Tuesday 5 May at 20:15 is Frederick Ashton’s final full-length ballet, La Fille mal Gardée, which translates as ‘The Wayward Daughter’. Based on an 1828 ...

A cottage door opens and a prettily aproned ballerina peeps out, hoping for a morning tryst with her forbidden love. It all could so easily end in tears – Giselle wrings madness and death from a ...