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Work: Valses nobles et sentimentales

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ComposerRavel, Maurice (1875-1937)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Year1947
Work typeDance
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The Sarasota Ballet's Ashton Gala: keeping his ballets very much alive

The Sarasota Ballet in Ashton's Valses nobles et sentimentales © Frank Atura
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.
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The Sarasota Ballet: a second programme to relish

The Sarasota Ballet in Ashton's Valses nobles et sentimentales © Frank Atura
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.
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The Sarasota Ballet: a boldly revelatory first visit to the UK

Ricardo Rhodes, Jessica Assef, Daniel Pratt in Frederick Ashton's Valses nobles et sentimentales © Foteini Christofilopoulou
Anyone who is interested in the Ashton repertoire should go and see this marvellous reinterpretation of his repertoire from the excellent Sarasota Ballet.
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