List of ballets choreographed by Frederick Ashton

List of ballets choreographed by Frederick Ashton

The following is a list, currently incomplete, of ballets created by the English choreographer Frederick Ashton.

1920s

* "A Tragedy of Fashion" (mus. Eugene Goossens, arranged by Ernest Irving) (1926)
* "Various dances" for a Purcell Opera Society production of "The Fairy-Queen": (mus. Henry Purcell) (1927)
* "Pas de deux" (mus. Fritz Kreisler) (1927)
* "Suite de danses" (mus. W.A. Mozart) (1927)
* "Argentine Dance" (mus. Artello ) (1927)
* "Nymphs and Shepherds" (mus. W.A. Mozart) (1928)
* "Leda" (mus. Christoph Willibald Gluck) (1928)
* "Various dances" for "Jew Süss" (incidental music arranged by Constant Lambert) (1929)

1930s

* "Capriol Suite" (mus. Peter Warlock) (1930)
* "Pomona" (mus. Constant Lambert) (1930)
* "Regatta" (1931)
* "La Péri" (mus. Léo Delibes) (1931)
* "Façade" (mus. various, largely William Walton) (1931)
* "The Lady of Shalott" (mus. Jean Sibelius) (1931)
* "Foyer de danse" (mus. Lord Berners) (1932)
* "Les Rendezvous" (mus. Daniel François Esprit Auber, arranged by Constant Lambert) (1933)
* "Pavane pour une enfante défunte" (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1933)
* "Mephisto Valse" (mus. Franz Liszt) (1934)
* "Le Baisier de la fée" (mus. Igor Stravinsky) (1935)
* "Apparitions" (mus. Franz Liszt, arranged by Constant Lambert and orchestrated by Gordon Jacob) (1936)
* "Nocturne" (mus. Frederick Delius) (1936)
* "Les Patineurs" (mus. Giacomo Meyerbeer, arranged by Constant Lambert) (1937 )
* "A Wedding Bouquet" (mus. Lord Berners) (1937)
* "Horoscope" (mus. Constant Lambert) (1938)
* "The Judgement of Paris" (mus. Lenox Berkeley) (1938)
* "Cupid and Psyche" (mus. Lord Berners) (1939)

1940s

* "Dante Sonata" (mus. Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Constant Lambert) (1940)
* "The Wise Virgins" (1940)
* "The Wanderer" (mus. Franz Schubert) (1941)
* "The Quest" (1943)
* "Symphonic Variations" (mus. César Franck) (1946)
* "Les Sirènes" (mus. Lord Berners, orchestrated by Roy Douglas) (1946)
* "Various dances" for a Royal Opera production of "The Fairy-Queen" (mus. Henry Purcell, arranged by Constant Lambert) (1946)
* "Valses nobles et sentimentales" (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1947)
* "Scènes de ballet" (mus. Igor Stravinsky) (1948)
* "Don Juan" (mus. Richard Strauss) (1948)
* "Cinderella" (mus. Sergei Prokofiev) (1948)
* "Le Rêve de Léonor" (mus. Benjamin Britten, orchestrated by Arthur Oldham) (1949)

1950s

* "Illuminations" (mus. Benjamin Britten) (1950)
* "Daphnis et Chloè" (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1951), created for Dame Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes
* "Tiresias" (mus. Constant Lambert) (1951)
* "Sylvia" (mus. Léo Delibes) (1952)
* "Picnic at Tintagel (mus. Arnold Bax) (1952)
* "Homage to the Queen" (mus. Malcolm Arnold) (1953)
* "Romeo and Juliet" (mus. Sergei Prokofiev) (1955)
* "Rinaldo and Armida" (mus. Malcolm Arnold) (1955)
* "La Peri" (mus. Paul Dukas) (1956)
* "Birthday Offering" (mus. Alexander Glazunov, arranged by Robert Irving) (1956)
* "Ondine" (mus. Hans Werner Henze) (1958), created for Dame Margot Fonteyn
* "La Valse" (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1958)

1960s

* "La Fille Mal-Gardée" (mus. Ferdinand Hérold-Lanchbery (1960)
* "Persephone" (mus. Igor Stravinsky) (1961)
* "The Two Pigeons" (mus. André Messager, arranged by John Lanchbery) (1961)
* "Marguerite et Armand" (mus. Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Humphrey Searle) 1963). Soloists: Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev
* "The Dream" after Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream" (mus. Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by John Lanchbery) (1964)
* "Monotones" (mus. Erik Satie, orchestrated by Claude Debussy) (1965)
* " Enigma Variations" (mus. Sir Edward Elgar) (1968)
* "Jazz Calendar" (mus. Richard Rodney Bennett) (1968)

1970s

* "Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus" (mus. Ludwig van Beethoven) (1970)
* "Lament of the Waves" (mus. Gérard Masson) (1970)
* "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" (mus. Frederick Delius) (1972)
* "Brahms Waltz" (mus. Johannes Brahms) (1975)
* "A Month in the Country" (mus. Frédéric Chopin, arranged by John Lanchbery) (1976)


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