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Ashton Celebrated review – Royal Ballet turns traditional into timeless

Frederick Ashton’s musicality, footwork and storytelling are showcased in a programme of gracefully danced favourites

The Guardian - UK

Swan Lake; Danses Concertantes/Different Drummer/Requiem – review

The Royal Ballet’s long-running and rather cumbersome Swan Lake is elevated by the dancers’ artistry, while a fine Kenneth MacMillan triple bill deserves more performances

The Guardian - UK

Manon review – Kenneth MacMillan’s 50-year-old masterpiece still bewitches

The Royal Ballet revisits the choreographer’s timeless rags-to-riches work, putting assorted casts through its finely tuned emotional wringer

The Guardian - UK

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Don Quixote review – Nuñez and Muntagirov deliver a sensational shock of sunshine

The Royal Ballet principals light up the stage in Carlos Acosta’s charmingly comic staging of an often nonsensical, but enduring, classic

The Guardian - UK

Don Quixote review – sunshine, warmth and dazzling technique from the Royal Ballet

With its stellar leads and lively background action, this sprightly revival of Carlos Acosta’s revised staging is a celebration of the pleasure of classical dance

The Guardian - UK

Carlos at 50 review – Acosta’s gorgeous birthday bash with friends and family

There’s less gravity defying, more gravitas as the Cuban star makes a dazzling return to the Royal Opera House in a seamless show of crowd-pleasing highs

The Guardian - UK

Carlos at 50 review – stunning tricks and charisma to burn

Of course Acosta has lost a little bounce after half a century, but the Cuban master still dances with care, specificity and dramatic flair

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Carlos at 50 at the Royal Opera House review: the knees may creak but his charisma won’t rust

The Cuban ballet star is an undeniable force for good, and no one should begrudge him a sold-out birthday bash

Evening Standard

Cinderella review – Ashton’s classic fairytale with extra frills

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

The Guardian - UK

Cinderella review – Royal Ballet fairytale is a shiny sugar-rush

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

The Guardian - UK

Cinderella at the Royal Opera House review: this lavishly redesigned show is magical, lovely and oh so English

In Frederick Ashton’s take on the fairy tale, romance is tempered by comedy, elegance by eccentricity

Evening Standard

The Sleeping Beauty review – a vintage production rises and shines

It’s unapologetically retro, and there’s no story, but the Royal Ballet’s latest revival of Petipa’s intricate masterpiece casts its spell

The Guardian - UK

The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Ballet review - treated as a museum piece, this classic is decorous but dull

Though woven into the company’s fabric, this is a tough ballet to love

Evening Standard

Diamond Celebration at the Royal Ballet review: a tasting menu of show-off delicacies

This collection of pieces moves from flirty to terrifically astringent

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Scènes de ballet/A Month in the Country/ Rhapsody review – an outstanding Ashton triple bill

In a showcase of works from across their founding choreographer’s career, the Royal Ballet prove their mastery of his technical and dramatic complexity

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