Performer: Sarasota Ballet

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.

Anyone who is interested in the Ashton repertoire should go and see this marvellous reinterpretation of his repertoire from the excellent Sarasota Ballet.

An excellent and diverse triple bill with an Ashton gem at its centre.

Not every Ashton work is a masterpiece, but Sarasota Ballet presents these Ashton works with such love and care, it ensures that even if the ballets won’t “keep”, they aren’t forgotten.

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

The original cast of principals – and current interpreters – discuss the joys of working with the late choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, and the great legacy he has left to today’s dancers.