Comments on: Ondine

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:44:16 +0000

this is one of my favorite shows! I had no idea it was used as a vehicle for Fonteyn. I can see how the tone and choreography would match her so well.

By: Five Ballet Weddings From Hell

Five Ballet Weddings From Hell — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:26:28 +0000

[...] Ondine – Sealed with a kiss. And then he dies: [...]

By: A Folk Tale

A Folk Tale — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:48:40 +0000

[...] heroine and a hero who triumphs against the odds. You are well-versed in Giselle, La Sylphide, Ondine and would like to try a different supernatural [...]

By: Royal Ballet Sylvia Review

Royal Ballet Sylvia Review — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:57:44 +0000

[...] with Greek draperies and temples, looks like an over the top Pre-Raphaelite vision. With Ondine Ashton proved he could dive deep into symbology but here, despite the argument based on Greek [...]

By: Frederick Ashton

Frederick Ashton — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:20:20 +0000

[...] Les Patineurs and Tales of Beatrix Potter. There’s also a Royal Ballet DVD of his masterpiece Ondine due this week, so it’s high time for us to look at Ashton and his incredible talent for [...]

By: Season Awards « The Ballet Bag

Season Awards « The Ballet Bag — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:09:41 +0000

[...] beautiful in Ondine, beautifully intense in Isadora, lush in Manon, luxe in Emeralds, Tamara squeezed dramatic juice in [...]

By: A Fond Farewell to Alexandra « The Ballet Bag

A Fond Farewell to Alexandra « The Ballet Bag — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:32:09 +0000

[...] March 2009, after a great season which began with plum debuts in Ashton’s Ondine and as Swan Lake’s Odette/Odile (“a performance of beautiful line, emotional finesse [...]

By: Feet-like Fins « The Ballet Bag

Feet-like Fins « The Ballet Bag — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:13:46 +0000

[...] La Motte Fouqué’s Undine, the short novella from which Ashton’s ballet Ondine derives, we have, as Macaulay puts it, “a Romantic hero (originally named Huldebrand) for whom [...]