Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the first real glimpse of electric Miles and ...

La Fille mal gardée, Frederick Ashton’s 1960 gift to the Royal Ballet, is a lasting treasure and pleasure, one of the gems in its repertoire. If any ballet reaches a wide public, it is this one, a joy ...

When Gaetano Donizetti arrived in Paris in October 1838, he was already one of the great figures of bel canto. Yet what he sought in the French capital was professional stability and institutional ...

If I were allowed to be a chorus member in any Met opera production, my first choice very well might be Laurent Pelly’s La Fille du Regiment. Who wouldn’t want to be a saucepan-helmeted townsperson, a ...

La Fille mal gardée features a real live pony, so it’s probably the best ballet ever. Some friends of mine were so enamoured of the previous incumbent of the role, a snow-white scene stealer called ...

The return to Covent Garden of Frederick Ashton’s unassailable classic confirmed why it continues to cast its spell on impressionable minds Mark has been watching live dance since he was four years ...

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry… Frederick Ashton’s 1960 pastoral masterpiece La Fille mal gardée (based on a work dating from 1789) is the English equivalent of a barn dance, and it returns ...

Erin Morley is Marie in Donizetti’s La fille du regiment at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The Laurent Pelly production of Donizetti’s La fille du regiment returned to the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s the sunniest, funniest ballet in the repertoire but, production-wise, La Fille mal gardée is basically an ...

Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee in La Fille du Régiment rehearsals. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera In April 2020, as a response to COVID-19 closing opera houses, the Met put together a live ...

A new Cathedral City cafe serves up French and Italian sandwiches and sweets, influenced by the home countries of its owners. For some customers, listening to the banter behind the counter is half the ...