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Despite its widespread rating as one of his masterpieces, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella is chock full of knots, gaps and stumbling blocks – all of which the Royal Ballet’s new production throws into relief. Ashton isn’t altogether to blame: Prokofiev’s graphic score dictates an excessive amount of time given over to knockabout for the Ugly Sisters

Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov and company shine – as do their costumes – in the Royal Ballet’s over-the-top new design of this intricate work

Plant life blooms everywhere you look in Frederick Ashton's earliest full-evening ballet. Review by Jenny Gilbert

PATRICK MARMION: Julius Caesar at the RSC is a curious offering, throwing as it does a cast of rookies and debutantes to the lions in another solemnly PC vision of the Bard.

Marianela Nuñez is a Cinderella for the ages in this spruced-up, unmissable revival that is utterly enchanting

Opening nights tend to be special. So what’s ‘A Gala Celebration’ opening night at the Royal Opera House going to feel like? Spontaneous combustion?! Perhaps from the ticket prices…

Ashton’s three-act ballet combines escapism, clever classicism and panto, and this new version gets better as it goes along

This new production of Frederick Ashton's Cinderella is brimming with magic – but do the performances measure up?`

Alessandra Ferri returns as the moving focus of this powerful piece. Dance review by Helen Hawkins

This production of The Sleeping Beauty is one of the Royal Ballet’s many triumphs and is an ideal introduction to the world of classical ballet for “first timers”...