Three Ashton masterworks light up Covent Garden in tribute to the Royal Ballet’s legendary choreographer.
Ashton Triple
The Royal Ballet
Ballet
Marguerite and Armand is Ashton’s beautiful and emotional retelling of a well-known story, familiar to us through Verdi’s opera La traviata. Ashton famously created this poignant ballet on Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in 1963, and here it is performed by guest Roberto Bolle and in her farewell performance, Zenaida Yanowsky.
Zenaida Yanowksy (Marguerite), Roberto Bolle (Armand), Christopher Saunders (Armand's Father), Gary Avis (Duke), Mica Bradbury (Maid), Robert Clark (Piano), (Director), (Conductor), (Choreographer), (Composer)