The ballet Cinderella by Frederick Ashton, the founder and choreographer of the Royal Ballet, celebrates its 75th anniversary this season. The ballet's premiere in 1948, starring Moira Shearer and Michael Somes, was enthusiastically acclaimed by critics. Ashton's timeless new adaptation of Charles Perrault's famous Cinderella story, now returning to the Royal Opera House for the first time in more than a decade, demonstrates the choreographer's extraordinary musicality as well as the beauty of Prokofiev's transcendent score. A creative team steeped in the magic of theatre, film, dance and opera infuses Cinderella's ethereal world of good fairies, pumpkin carriages, handsome princes and true love with a new atmosphere.
