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Bringing Ashton from Florida to The Royal Opera House sounds like “coals to Newcastle” but I think that “discovering buried treasure” might be a more appropriate idiom.

The Sarasota Ballet continues to make a deep impression with its second programme of Ashton ballets, this time including a selection of divertissements and excerpts from longer ballets.

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

Sir Frederick Ashton was a choreographic genius but not everything he created rose to that level, as this program showed.