Trailer: Stream Marguerite and Armand from Friday 15 January

Frederick Ashton created this passionate ballet to Liszt’s tempestuous Piano Sonata. Available to watch via our streaming service from 15 January 2021 at 7pm until 14 February 2021. Find out more: https://stream.roh.org.uk/packages/marguerite-and-armand-2017/videos/marguerite-and-armand-2017 Marguerite and Armand was created for Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in 1963 by founding choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton. The story draws from the same inspiration as Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La traviata – the play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils. Fonteyn herself recalled the intensity of the choreography, claiming that the tragic love story was a passion more real than life itself’.