65 years after its premiere, The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée in a love letter to the English countryside with a cheerful score and colourful designs. Lise, the only ...

La Fille mal gardée, Frederick Ashton’s 1960 gift to the Royal Ballet, is a lasting treasure and pleasure, one of the gems in its repertoire. If any ballet reaches a wide public, it is this one, a joy ...

If I were allowed to be a chorus member in any Met opera production, my first choice very well might be Laurent Pelly’s La Fille du Regiment. Who wouldn’t want to be a saucepan-helmeted townsperson, a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Opera opened “La Sonnambula.” Now, it is offering another bel canto classic: “La Fille du Régiment.

Bel Canto is having a bit of a resurgence at the Metropolitan Opera this year, with the company, after years of giving one or no offering per season, currently showcasing two works from the composers ...

The Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award–winning actress is best known for her acclaimed roles on Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve, as well as her stage performances at The Public Theater in Stop ...

La Fille mal gardée features a real live pony, so it’s probably the best ballet ever. Some friends of mine were so enamoured of the previous incumbent of the role, a snow-white scene stealer called ...

As the autumnal nights get darker, La Fille mal gardée radiates sunlight in ballet form. This countryside comedy by the Royal Ballet’s late founder choreographer, Frederick Ashton, overflows with ...

La Fille mal gardée, Frederick Ashton ’s unassuming tale of two villagers in love, could well be the most perfect romcom in any genre – so sun-kissed, sweet-natured and absurdly beguiling it makes ...

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry… Frederick Ashton’s 1960 pastoral masterpiece La Fille mal gardée (based on a work dating from 1789) is the English equivalent of a barn dance, and it returns ...

Marianela Núñez said of La Fille mal gardée during a rehearsal that it was just what this heavy world needed right now. The much loved Frederick Ashton classic has not been seen on the Covent Garden ...

Erin Morley is Marie in Donizetti’s La fille du regiment at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The Laurent Pelly production of Donizetti’s La fille du regiment returned to the ...