Ballet

Façade

Façade is a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music by William Walton. Façade is a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton, set to the music of William Walton; it is a balletic…

Façade
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Choreography
Frederick Ashton
Music
William Walton
Premiere
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About the work

Façade is a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton, set to the music of William Walton; it is a balletic interpretation of items from Façade – an Entertainment (1923) by Walton and Edith Sitwell. The ballet was first given by the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre, on 26 April, 1931. It has been regularly revived and restaged all over the world.

From the Wikipedia article “Façade (ballet)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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