Ashton Collection Volume 2 DVD (The Royal Ballet)Discover the magnificent world of Frederick Ashton's work with the Ashton Collection Volume 2 DVD, featuring the full length ballets Sylvia, La fille mal garde, and The Tales of Beatrix Potter. Gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for these masterpieces Darcey Bussell and Roberto Bolle star in Sylvia, restored to the splendour of its elegant, opulent three act form and featuring the choreographers darkly comic characterisations. By contrast La

a virtuosic display of excellence

'Alina Cojocaru's Aurora was the ballet's radiant centrepiece

Gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for these masterpieces

Captured here in High Definition video and surround sound

and a sharp and humorously turbo-machismo turn from Ryoichi Hirano as the toreador Espada

who died in 2009

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Madame de la Haltière: Ewa Podles

Director: Peter Hall

her greatest friend and unwitting rival in love

Nemorino: Peter Auty

His striking looks make him very much the Romantic and romanticised outsider of Giordano’s vision