La Fille mal gardée, with Choe and Maloney, Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, May 2012
Posted on 5 May 2012For a witty pastoral story of young love triumphing over a widow’s desire to marry her daughter into wealth this ballet is hard to beat. First created in 1789, the year of the French revolution, its characters are ordinary folk, unlike the stylized shepherds and shepherdesses seen on stage at that time. The scenario is …