Name: Frederick Ashton's Les Rendezvous, The Dream, Rhapsody
Start: 2024-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

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Choreography by

Frederick Ashton

Royal Opera House

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The Royal Ballet

Frederick Ashton's Les Rendezvous, The Dream, Rhapsody

London

United Kingdom

Main Stage

Public

Ballet music from  L'enfant prodigue

A Midsummer Night's Dream, overture, Op.21, arranged by J.Lanchbery

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61, arranged by J.Lanchbery

Paganini Rhapsody

Approved

This mixed programme opens with the buoyant Les Rendezvous, a fizzing succession of dances following a group of friends who meet in a park. The Dream, Ashton’s witty and tender reimagining of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, follows set to Felix Mendelssohn’s gossamer light music. The one-act ballet follows two pairs of mortal lovers, their fates at the hands of Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of Fairies. Ashton’s lyrical masterpiece, Rhapsody, concludes the programme, its explosive jumps and fleet footwork a bravura match for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s virtuosic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

English

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