List of ballets choreographed by Frederick Ashton

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The following is a list by decade, currently incomplete, of ballets created by the English choreographer Frederick Ashton.

[edit] 1920s

A Tragedy of Fashion (mus. Eugene Goossens, arranged by Ernest Irving) (1926)
Various dances for a Purcell Opera Society production of The Fairy-Queen: (mus. Henry Purcell) (1927)
Pas de deux (mus. Fritz Kreisler) (1927)
Suite de danses (mus. Mozart) (1927)
Argentine Dance (mus. Artello) (1927)
Nymphs and Shepherds (mus. Mozart) (1928)
Leda (mus. Christoph Willibald Gluck) (1928)
Various dances for Jew Süss (incidental music arranged by Constant Lambert) (1929)

Capriol Suite (mus. Peter Warlock) (1930)
Pomona (mus. Constant Lambert) (1930)
Regatta (1931)
La Péri (mus. Léo Delibes) (1931)
Façade (mus. various, largely William Walton) (1931)
The Lady of Shalott (mus. Jean Sibelius) (1931)
Foyer de danse (mus. Lord Berners) (1932)
Les Rendezvous (mus. Daniel François Esprit Auber, arranged by Constant Lambert) (1933)
Pavane pour une enfante défunte (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1933)
Mephisto Valse (mus. Franz Liszt) (1934)
Le Baisier de la fée (mus. Igor Stravinsky) (1935)
Apparitions (mus. Franz Liszt, arranged by Constant Lambert and orchestrated by Gordon Jacob) (1936)
Nocturne (mus. Frederick Delius) (1936)
Les Patineurs (mus. Giacomo Meyerbeer, arranged by Constant Lambert) (1937 )
A Wedding Bouquet (mus. Lord Berners) (1937)
Horoscope (mus. Constant Lambert) (1938)
The Judgement of Paris (mus. Lennox Berkeley) (1938)
Cupid and Psyche (mus. Lord Berners) (1939)

Dante Sonata (mus. Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Constant Lambert) (1940)
The Wise Virgins (1940)
The Wanderer (mus. Franz Schubert) (1941)
The Quest (1943)
Symphonic Variations (mus. César Franck) (1946)
Les Sirènes (mus. Lord Berners, orchestrated by Roy Douglas) (1946)
various dances for a Royal Opera production of The Fairy-Queen (mus. Henry Purcell, arranged by Constant Lambert) (1946)
Valses nobles et sentimentales (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1947)
Scènes de ballet (mus. Igor Stravinsky) (1948)
Don Juan (mus. Richard Strauss) (1948)
Cinderella (mus. Sergei Prokofiev) (1948)
Le Rêve de Léonor (mus. Benjamin Britten, orchestrated by Arthur Oldham) (1949)

Illuminations (mus. Benjamin Britten) (1950)
Daphnis et Chloé (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1951), created for Dame Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes
Tiresias (mus. Constant Lambert) (1951)
Sylvia (mus. Léo Delibes) (1952)
Picnic at Tintagel (mus. Arnold Bax) (1952)
Homage to the Queen (mus. Malcolm Arnold) (1953)
Romeo and Juliet (mus. Sergei Prokofiev) (1955)
Rinaldo and Armida (mus. Malcolm Arnold) (1955)
La Peri (mus. Paul Dukas) (1956)
Birthday Offering (mus. Alexander Glazunov, arranged by Robert Irving) (1956)
Ondine (mus. Hans Werner Henze) (1958), created for Dame Margot Fonteyn
La Valse (mus. Maurice Ravel) (1958)

La fille mal gardée (mus. Ferdinand Hérold-Lanchbery (1960)
Persephone (mus. Igor Stravinsky) (1961)
The Two Pigeons (mus. André Messager, arranged by John Lanchbery) (1961)
Marguerite et Armand (mus. Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Humphrey Searle) 1963). Soloists: Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev
The Dream after Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream (mus. Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by John Lanchbery) (1964)
Monotones (mus. Erik Satie, orchestrated by Claude Debussy) (1965)
Jazz Calendar (mus. Richard Rodney Bennett) (1968)
Enigma Variations (mus. Sir Edward Elgar) (1968)

Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (mus. Ludwig van Beethoven) (1970)
Lament of the Waves (mus. Gérard Masson) (1970)
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (mus. Frederick Delius) (1972)
Five Brahms Waltzes (mus. Johannes Brahms) (1975)
A Month in the Country (mus. Frédéric Chopin, arranged by John Lanchbery) (1976)