Royal Opera House, LondonIn Scènes de ballet, choreographed in 1948, Frederick Ashton created a work of unanswerable formal perfection. The Stravinsky score, which Ashton discovered while listening to the radio in the bath, had been composed four years earlier for a revue at New York's Ziegfeld theatre. Shot through with a jazzy, bittersweet glamour, it seems to embody the lost world of cocktail hours and grand hote…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AM on June 5, 2011