Royal Ballet: Ashton double bill review " Osipova is regal and electric
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal's revival of Rhapsody turns from pretty to thrilling, while Two Pigeons takes off in playful, touching styleThere are sections of Rhapsody that are as brilliant and romantically sublime as anything Frederick Ashton created. Yet it's a strange ballet. Unevenly paced, it struggles to make structural sense of the light and dark in Rachmaninov's score; and since its creation in 1980 it …