La Fille mal gardée review " breezy and blissful
Bristol HippodromeBirmingham Royal Ballet's heartfelt production of Frederick Ashton's comic country tale is a delightCreated in a whirlwind month of rehearsals in 1960, Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée is probably the best-loved of English ballets. Based on a 1789 work by Jean Dauberval, it's notionally set in France, but actually in an idealised England, which Ashton described as "a leafy pastorale of perpet…
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