Pas de légumes is a ballet created in 1982 with choreography by Frederick Ashton, to the music of Rossini arranged by John Dalby.
[1] The ballet originated as part of a 1979 EMI film Stories from a Flying Trunk, directed by Christine Edzard and produced by Richard B Goodwin, and adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's folk tales (this one being Little Ida’s Flowers).
[2] A mock-heroic episode in the film where a potato, the lowest of the vegetables, fulfils his ambition to dance with a gorgeous princess is replaced on stage by a traditional pas de deux for a fairytale prince and princess.
[3] The music is taken from the operas Mosè in Egitto, Otello, and Le siège de Corinthe by Rossini.
[1] He provides chaine turns "that plump out the crinoline of Choux Rouge" and a "curly flourish of the arms that mimics the heads of celeris".