Event listing: Margot Fonteyn: A Celebration | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sat 8 Jun 2019 at 19:30

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Programme

The Firebird	Music: Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) Choreography: Mikhail Fokine (Original)
The Sleeping Beauty (Rose Adage)	Music: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893) Choreography: Marius Petipa (Original)
Nocturne	Music: Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
The Wise Virgins	Music: Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
Birthday Offering	Music: Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936) Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton (Original)
Ondine (Shadow pas de deux)	Music: Henze, Hans Werner (1926-2012) Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
Sylvia (Les chasseresses)	Music: Delibes, Léo (1836-1891) Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
Daphnis et Chloé	Music: Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) Choreography: Mikhail Fokine (Original)
Romeo and Juliet (Balcony pas de deux)	Music: Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953) Choreography: Sir Kenneth MacMillan
Façade (Tango)	Music: Walton, William (1902-1983) Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton
Le Corsaire	Music: Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856) Choreography: Anna-Marie Holmes, Marius Petipa (original), Konstantin Sergeyev
Apparitions (Ballroom scene)	Music: Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Choreography: Sir Frederick Ashton

Performers

The Royal Ballet
Emmanuel Plasson	Conductor
Itziar Mendizabal	Dancer
Nehemiah Kish	Dancer
Marianela Núñez	Dancer
Beatriz Stix-Brunell	Dancer
Romany Pajdak	Dancer
Fumi Kaneko	Dancer
Sarah Lamb	Dancer
Ryoichi Hirano	Dancer
Zenaida Yanowsky	Dancer
Mayara Magri	Dancer
Anna Rose O'Sullivan	Dancer
Alexander Campbell	Dancer
Natalia Osipova	Dancer
David Hallberg	Dancer
Darcey Bussell	Dancer
Gary Avis	Dancer
Vadim Muntagirov	Dancer
Yasmine Naghdi	Dancer
Lauren Cuthbertson	Dancer
Matthew Ball	Dancer
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

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The scent of Ravel: Hiroaki Kanda on Daphnis et Chloé

Bachtrack, 3rd October

The NHK Symphony Orchestra’s principal flautist talks about playing Ravel’s largest orchestral work, which features virtuosic solos for players all across the orchestra.

The jinx and rehabilitation of Sylvia

Graham Watts, 24th November

Thirteen years after its restoration - and at the grand old age of 140 - Sylvia might, at last, be free of her jinx. Discover the complex history of Léo Delibes' ballet, written here by Graham Watts.

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“The spirit of Margot” celebrated in The Royal Ballet's Fonteyn gala

Graham Watts, 8th June

A memorable and important event in the history of British ballet, sensitively and sentimentally performed.

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