Tuesday 16 June 2026
St Michael and All Angels Parish Hall
7pm for 7.30
Tickets £15
No Westerner had seen a classic Russian ballet until the tiny company at Sadlers Wells performed Swan Lake in 1934. Twenty years later that troupe had become the Royal Ballet and Sarah Lenton of BBC Radio 3 unpacks the chutzpah, story-telling, and sheer technical brilliance behind the company’s Russian repertoire.
Sarah Lenton has spent her working life at the London Coliseum and the Royal Opera House. She gives talks and writes programme articles for both these companies, Glyndebourne, Garsington, WNO and the Proms. She appears regularly on Record Review and the opera broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 – and is also an assistant priest at St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park.
