Sylvia's appeal is enormously boosted by its Delibes score, which is richly colourful and melodic: a delight to the ears all the more potent for being much less frequently heard than many far inferior ...

Mark Monahan never really stood a chance. In the Sixties, his mother danced for five years with what was then the Royal Ballet Touring Company; meanwhile, his father was the first and still ...

This revival of Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia is deliriously pretty. The settings are a Claude Lorrain fantasy, the costumes a parade of Poussin colours. The plot is preposterous. Aminta, a shepherd ...