At the Metropolitan Opera House, the troupe revives Frederick Ashton’s richly textured three-act production, set to music by ...

In American Ballet Theater’s production, four principal dancers made their debuts in the role, which carries the ballet.

The ballet’s mythological plot is drawn from a 16th-century pastoral play by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso. Ashton described its convoluted plot simply: “Boy loves girl, girl captured by bad man, ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...