Ballets
With Peggy Reynolds.
3: La Fille Mal Gardee. Ferdinand
Herald's ballet La Fille Mal Gardee is the comic story, roughly translated, of The Unchaperoned Daughter. Lise is in love with the handsome Colas, but her mother Simone wants to marry her off to the son of a local vinegrower - the simple, bumbling Alain. They are both horrified at the suggestion, but their parents have made a deal. When Simone finds
Lise and Colas dancing together, she is furious, but pacified when the villagers ask her to dance - the clog dance immortalised by Frederick Ashton in his interpretation of the role. Music is taken from the recording by the Royal Liverpool PO, conductor Barry Wordsworth.