Choreography and stage, Rhapsody
Frederick Ashton
- Appears on
- Living Legacies
- Credited as
- Choreography and stage, Rhapsody
Sir Frederick Ashton was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1904 and raised in Peru, where seeing Anna Pavlova decided him on a dancing life. He moved to England as a teenager, studied with Léonide Massine and Marie Rambert, and made his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion, in 1927.
He became the defining choreographer of English ballet at The Royal Ballet, and also worked in opera, film and revue. Rhapsody, billed in Living Legacies, is his. He died in 1988.
Biography from the Vienna State Opera's ensemble profile.
