Frederick Ashton News

Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare has announced promotions, new joiners and leavers for The Royal Ballet's 2022/23 Season.   

Invited by Gustavo Dudamel to participate in the 100th anniversary season of the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Paris Opera Ballet, directed by Aurélie Dupont, will perform for the first time in this amphitheater on July 21 and 22, 2022. On the immense open-air stage and accompanied by the LA Phil under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director of the Opéra national de Paris, the Company will present an anthology of its repertoire before more than 17,000 spectators each evening.

Bookings are open for Cape Town City Ballet's exhilarating winter season, which runs from 4 to 28 August at Artscape in the Opera House.

The beanie hat Ian McKellen wears in each performance of 'Hamlet' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival will be auctioned after the show to support a bursary fund bearing his name to help future young dance students at Edinburgh Festival Ballet School.

The world premiere Pillow-exclusive engagement, America(na) to Me, will kick off Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2022 in the opening week of the Festival – as the first week-long performance in the newly renovated Ted Shawn Theatre – from June 22-26.

Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare announces that William Bracewell and Reece Clarke have been promoted to Principal dancer, the highest rank in the Company, to take effect from the start of the 2022/23 Season.

The Royal Opera House has announced its biggest Cinema Season ever. Over 2022/23, an astonishing 13 productions from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera will be broadcast to more than 1,300 cinemas around the world, bringing the joy of live performance to audiences from the UK all the way to New Zealand. 

Boston Ballet has announced programming for the 2022–2023 season, celebrating the return to the human experience of dance with a full six-program season for the first time since the 2019–2020 season.

A much-loved repertoire of the National Ballet of Japan. This production, choreographed by Sir Frederick ASHTON, is among the best of many 'Cinderella' ballets, and has been performed by the Royal Ballet and other leading ballet companies around the world. It is a valuable repertoire for the National Ballet of Japan, the only ballet company in Japan to have it in its repertoire.

Sarasota Opera has announced the lineup for the 2022 summer movie series: HD at the Opera House and Classic Movies at the Opera House. HD at the Opera House featuring filmed performances of opera and ballet from around the world will open on Sunday, May 22nd at 1:30 p.m. with Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, with tickets at $22, and $20 for Sarasota Opera subscribers.

Six of the UK's top dance schools unite in support of young people who have been affected by the war in Ukraine with a special gala performance, Unite for Ukraine at London's Sadler's Wells on Sunday 15 May.

The Royal Opera House today announces its 2022/23 Season, unveiling a rich range of new work, world premieres and beloved revivals. Over 40 productions, performed by an incredible roster of international stars and created in collaboration with global companies, will be accompanied by more than 200 events and activities in our stunning Covent Garden Home, and outreach programmes reaching more than 27,000 children across the UK. 

The Royal Ballet presents a dazzling showcase of choreographic invention by Frederick Ashton. Three ballets, Scènes de ballet / A Month in the Country / Rhapsody, return to the Royal Opera House Main Stage on 23 April demonstrating his remarkable range. 

Following a 44-year tenure as founder and Artistic Director of New York Theatre Ballet, Diana Byer will step down following NYTB’s spring performances, May 4-8, 2022.

Now McKellen is to return to Hamlet in a world première at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing with the Edinburgh Festival Ballet Company. It is sure to be one of the hottest tickets in the Fringe line up.

Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov will perform the roles of Kitri and Basilio for two nights only at the Birmingham Hippodrome next week (22 & 23 February).

Hope Muir, Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced that The National Ballet of Canada Volunteer Committee has been awarded a June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism.

Royal Ballet Principal dancer Federico Bonelli has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Northern Ballet commencing 1 May 2022.

Program 4 – Love & Betrayal sees the return of two powerful British ballets, with the choreography of Dame Ninette de Valois and Sir Frederick Ashton coming together for the first Program of the new year. De Valois’ The Rake’s Progress, a dramatic cautionary tale of betrayal and excess, showcases the downfall of a wealthy merchant’s heir through de Valois’ extraordinary choreography and theatricality.

Journey with The Royal Ballet to an enchanted world of princesses, fairy godmothers and magical spells in this landmark production of Petipa’s classic ballet, to Tchaikovsky's glorious music.