LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE
BALLET BY FERDINAND HÉROLD

A fabulous ballet for everyone to enjoy, it is set on a farmyard, and enriched with the fun of balletic chickens and ponies. It is a comedy, a love story, and a choreographic masterpiece in one. La Fille Mal Gardée, originally choreographed by Jean Dauberval, follows the love story of Lise and a poor young farmer Colas. Lise’s mother, Simone is a rich and ambitious widow, with plans for Lise to marry Alain, a wealthy but ridiculous landowner’s son. As Lise and Colas are repeatedly prised apart, then accidentally thrown together, love triumphs over material wealth to culminate is a wonderful final scene and happy ending.