BALLETS

Chronological

This index of Ashton’s ballets was originally published in David Vaughan’s book Frederick Ashton and His Ballets, and includes new productions added since then up until 2007. Ballets with the subtitle ‘choreographed in part’ indicate works in which Ashton choreographed sections or individual numbers (ballets by other choreographers, films, revues, etc)

Riverside Nights (1926)

A Tragedy of Fashion; or, The Scarlet Scissors (1926)

Pas de deux (1926)

The Fairy Queen (1927)

Pas de deux (1927)

Suite de danses (Galanteries) (1927)

Argentine Dance (1927)

Nymphs and Shepherds (1928)

Leda (1928)

Jew Süss (1929) including The Ballet of Mars and Venus

Capriol Suite (1930)

Saudade do Brésil (1930)

Mazurka des Hussars (1930)

Marriage a la Mode (1930)

Pomona (1930)

A Masque of Poetry and Music: ‘Beauty, Truth and Rarity’ (1930)

A Florentine Picture (1930)

La Péri (1931)

The Dance of the Hours (1931)

Cabaret Français (1931)

Excerpts from Faust (1931)

Façade (1931)

Mercury (1931)

Dance Pretty Lady (1931)

Regatta (1931) 

The Lady of Shalott (1931)

A Day in a Southern Port (1931)

The Lord of Burleigh (1931)

Pompette (1932)

‎The Cat and the Fiddle (1932)

Magic Nights (1932)

High Yellow (1932)

Foyer de danse (1932)

A Kiss in Spring (1932)

Ballyhoo (1932)

Rondo (1933)

LES MASQUES; ou, Changement des dames (1933)

How d’You Do? (1933)

Pavane pour une infante défunte (1933)

After Dark (1933)

Gay Hussar (1933)

Nursery Murmurs (1933)

Les Rendezvous (1933)

Four Saints in Three Acts (1934)

Mephisto Valse (1934)

Pas de deux classique (1934)

Love is the Best Doctor (1934)

Jill Darling! (1934)

Escape Me Never (1934)

Valentine’s Eve (1935)

In a Venetian Theatre (1935)

The Flying Trapeze (1935)

Perpetuum mobile (1935)

Round About Regent Street (1935)

Le Baiser de la Fée (1935)

Siesta (1936)

Follow the Sun (1935)

Apparitions (1936)

The Town Talks (1936)

Die Fledermaus (1936)

Nocturne (1936)

First Arabesque (1937)

Perpetuum mobile (1937)

Home and Beauty (1936)

Les Patineurs (1937)

Harlequin in the Street (1937)

Berceuse (1937)

A Wedding Bouquet (1937)

Floodlight (1937)

Horoscope (1938)

The Judgement of Paris (1938)

Running Riot (1938)

Tannhäuser (1938)

Harlequin in the Street (1938)

Pas de deux (1939)

Cupid and Psyche (1939)

Devil’s Holiday (Le Diable s’amuse) (1939)

Dante Sonata (1940)

The Wise Virgins (1940)

The Wanderer (1941)

The Quest (1943)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1945)

The Sleeping Beauty, 1946

Symphonic Variations (1946)

Les Sirènes (1946)

The Fairy Queen (1946)

Manon (1947)

Albert Herring (1947)

Valses nobles et sentimentales (1947)

Scènes de ballet (1948)

La Traviata (1948)

Don Juan (1948)

Cinderella (1948)

Le Rêve de Léonor (1949)

Illuminations (1950)

Daphnis and Chlöe (1951)

Tiresias (1951)

Casse Noisette (1951)

The Story of Three Loves (1952)

Picnic at Tintagel (1952)

Vision of Marguerite (1952)

The Tales Of Hoffmann (1951)

Sylvia (1952)

Le Lac des cygnes (1952)

Orpheus (1953)

Homage to the Queen (1953)

Trepak (1954)

Entrada de Madame Butterfly (1954)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1954)

Variations on a Theme by Purcell (1955)

Rinaldo and Armida (1955)

Madame Chrysanthème (1955)

Romeo og Julie (Romeo and Juliet) (1955)

La Péri (1956)

Birthday Offering (1956)

The Beloved (1956)

Solo Seal Variations (1957)

La Valse (1958)

Orfeo ed Euridice (1958)

Ondine (1958)

Scène d’amour from Raymonda (1959)

La Fille mal gardée (1960)

The Two Pigeons (Les Deux Pigeons) (1961)

Giselle (1960)

Poème tragique (1961)

Persephone (1961)

Raymonda Pas de deux, Variations, and Coda (1962)

Marguerite and Armand (1963)

The Dream (1964)

Monotones (1965)

Monotones I and II (1965/1966)

Sinfonietta (1967)

Jazz Calendar (1968)

Enigma Variations (1968)

Lament of the Waves (1970)

The Creatures of Prometheus (Die Geschopfe des Prometheus) (1970)

Meditation from Thaïs (1971)

Tales of Beatrix Potter (1970)

c.1830 (1971)

Siesta (1972)

The Walk to the Paradise Garden (1972)

Death in Venice (1973)

World of Harlequin (1973)

Tonight at 8.30 (1973)

Fashion Show (1974)

Scène dansante (1975)

Brahms Waltz (1975)

A Month in the Country (1976)

Five Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan (1976)

The Turning Point (1976)

Hamlet Prelude (1977)

Tweedledum and Tweedledee (1977)

Voices of Spring (1977)

Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1978)

Salut d’amour (1979)

Stories from a Flying Trunk (1979)

Rhapsody (1980)

Soupirs (1980)

Le Rossignol (1981)

Varii capricci (1983)

Acte de présence (1984)

Die verwandelte Katze (1985)

Nursery Suite (1986)