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La Péri
The Flower of Immortality (subtitle added later)
M Paul Dukas (Poème dansé, 1912)
SC William Chappell
D The Péri: Alicia Markova; Iskender: Frederick Ashton; Companions:
Pearl Argyle, Andrée Howard, Maude Lloyd, Elisabeth Schooling,
Suzette Morfield, Betty Cuff
FP Ballet Club, London, 16 February 1931
See 1956, La Péri
The
Dance of the Hours
Choreography credited to Anne Fleming, but that for Markova and Chappell
at least was by Ashton
M Amilcare Ponchielli (ballet music from La Gioconda, 1876)
C Willliam Chappell
D Alicia Markova, William Chappell, and The Regal Ballet
FP Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, London, 14 March 1931
[Cabaret
français]
Foxhunting Ballet
M ?
D The Fox: Alicia Markova, with chorus
FP Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, London, 4 April 1931
[Excerpts
from Faust]
Opera by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
M Charles Gounod (1859-1869)
Choreography again credited to Anne Fleming but that for Markova by Ashton)
Singers: Faust: Henry Wendon; Marguerite: Paulyne Bindley; Mephisto: Herbert
Dunkerley
D Principal dancer: Alicia Markova, with the Regal Ballet Corps
FP Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, London, 18 April 1931
Façade
A ballet in one act freely adapted to music originally written as a setting
to poems by Edith Sitwell*
M William Walton (1922)
SC John Armstrong
D Scotch Rhapsody: Prudence Hyman, Maude Lloyd, Antony Tudor
Jodelling Song: Milkmaid: Lydia Lopokova; Mountaineers: Frederick Ashton,
William Chappell, Walter Gore
Polka: Alicia Markova
Valse: Pearl Argyle, Diana Gould, Maude Lloyd, Prudence Hyman
Popular Song: William Chappell, Walter Gore
Tango Pasodoble: Lydia Lopokova, Frederick Ashton
Finale--Tarantella Sevillana: Lydia Lopokova, Frederick Ashton, and ensemble
FP Camargo Society, Cambridge Theatre, London, 26 April 1931
ST Ballet Club, London;
D as above except Milkmaid: Andrée Howard; Tango and Finale: Alicia
Markova; FP 4 May 1931
NP Vic-Wells Ballet;
*subtitle added at this time, choreography and costumes both revised:
D Scotch Rhapsody: Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller, Robert Helpmann
Swiss Yodelling Song: The Milkmaid: Gwyneth Mathews;
Mountaineers: Harold Turner, Frederick Ashton, William
Chappell
Polka: Margot Fonteyn
Waltz: Pamela May, June Brae, Beatrice Appleyard, Peggy
Melliss
Popular Song: Harold Turner, William Chappell
Country Dance (new item): A Maiden: Pearl Argyle; A Yokel: Richard Ellis;
The Squire: Robert Helpmann
Tango Pasodoble: A Débutante: Molly Brown; A Dago:
Frederick Ashton
Tarantella Finale: Pearl Argyle, Frederick Ashton,
and ensemble
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 8 October 1935
NP Vic-Wells Ballet;
choreography further revised; new SC John Armstrong:
D Scotch Rhapsody (later called Ecossaise): Guinevere Parry, Molly Brown,
Claude Newman
Noche Espagnola (Nocturne péruvienne) (new item): Frederick Ashton
Yodelling Song (Tyrolienne): The Milkmaid: Julia Farron;
Mountaineers: John Hart, Michael Somes, Richard Ellis
Polka: Margot Fonteyn
Foxtrot (new item): June Brae, Pamela May, Robert Helpmann, Frederick
Ashton
Waltz (Valse): Ann Spicer, Julia Farron, Palma Nye, Moyra Fraser
Popular Song: Richard Ellis, John Hart
Country Dance: A Maiden: Mary Honer; A Yokel: Michael Somes; The Squire:
Robert Helpmann
Tango Pasodoble: A Débutante: Margot Fonteyn; A Dago:
Frederick Ashton
Tarantella Finale: Margot Fonteyn, Frederick Ashton,
and ensemble
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 23 July 1940
NP Sadler's Wells
Opera (later Theatre) Ballet; new items omitted; SC as 1940:
D Polka: Anne Heaton; Popular Song: Donald Britton, Alexander Grant; Tango
Pasodoble: June Brae, Frederick
Ashton
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 29 April 1946
(On 2 June 1949 the scenery and costumes were destroyed by fire at the
Theatre Royal, Hanley; for a brief period following this the ballet was
performed in the original decor, borrowed from Ballet Rambert, but with
new costumes made from the 1940 designs)
NP Sadler's Wells
Ballet; new items omitted; SC as 1940:
D Polka: Moira Shearer; Popular Song: Michael Boulton, Donald Britton;
Tango Pasodoble: Moira Shearer,
Frederick Ashton
FP Royal Opera House, London, 1 August 1949
Foxtrot and Country Dance added 20 June 1950, with new C for these numbers
and minor revisions in the finale;
Country Dance dropped again as from 7 April 1951;
at two performances on 5/7 May 1956 the Nocturne péruvienne
was restored, and again during the company's tour of Australia, 1958-1959:
D Robert Helpmann
NP Royal Ballet New
Group; music performed in its original form, with narration by Peter Pears;
original choreographic version plus Foxtrot, with abbreviated Finale;
SC as 1940:
D Polka: Carole Hill; Popular Song: Nicholas Johnson, David Morse; Tango
Pasodoble: Margaret Barbieri, Hendrik Davel
FP The Maltings, Snape, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 28 July 1972;
Sadler's Wells Theatre, 9 October 1972
At later performances the music was again performed in the orchestral
version
ST Ballet for All,
in Birth of the Royal Ballet; Yodelling Song only: FP Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe,
13 October 1972
NP Birmingham Royal
Ballet: original version plus Foxtrot; SC as 1940: D Polka: Sandra Madgwick;
Popular Song: Samuel Armstrong, James Bailey; Tango Pasodoble: David Morse,
Chenca Williams
FP Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 2 February 1993
ST Royal Ballet Lower School: Foxtrot and Popular Song only; FP Dance East, Chandos Lodge, Eye, Sussex, 1 July 2007
By
other companies:
NP Borovansky Ballet;
R Laurel Martyn; SC William Constable (after John Armstrong, 1931 version):
FP Australia, c. 1946
NP Repertory Ballet
Theatre of New Zealand; excerpts only;
R Yvonne Cartier and Jill Beachen, after Laurel Martyn's Borovansky version:
FP Auckland, New Zealand, July 1946
NP Illinois Ballet;
R Richard Ellis; SC Dom Orejudos:
FP St Alphonsus Theater, Chicago IL, 25 September 1959
NP New Zealand Ballet;
R Walter Trevor; SC Raymond Boyce (?):
FP South Island, New Zealand, 1960
ST Ballet of the Norske
Opera: R Harold Turner; FP Opera House, Oslo, 4 October 1960
ST PACT Ballet Company; R Alexander Bennett: FP Johannesburg, 1965
ST NAPAC Ballet Company;
R Joan Blakeney; FP Durban, 17 May 1966
ST Joffrey Ballet;
R John Hart and Richard Ellis;
FP Auditorium Theatre, Chicago IL, 28 January 1969
ST Répétition
générale for the Greatest Show on Earth; Popular Song only:
D Doreen Wells, John Gilpin; Coliseum, London, 22 June 1971
NP Minnesota Dance
Theatre; R Brian Shaw; S Jack Barkla
C Judy Cooper and Peter Hauschild: FP Jacob's Pillow, Lee MA, 25 July
1972
ST The Australian
Ballet; R Peggy van Praagh; SC John Armstrong (1940): D Nocturne Péruvienne:
Robert Helpmann; Polka: Lucette Aldous; A Débutante: Carolyn Rappel;
A Dago: Robert Helpmann;
FP Princess Theatre, Melbourne, 8 September 1972
ST Chicago Ballet;
R Richard Ellis and Christine Du Boulay;
SC Dom Orejudos: FP Ruth Page Foundation Theatre, Chicago IL,
2 October 1975
ST Ballet van Vlaanderen;
R Joy Newton; FP Royal Opera House, Antwerp, 10 January 1976
ST Houston Ballet;
R Richard Ellis; S (1931) C (1940) John Armstrong: D Tango: Gwen Verdon,
Ben Stevenson
FP Jones Hall, Houston TX, 2 March 1978:
ST Washington Ballet;
R Brian Shaw; D Polka: Denise Jackson; Popular Song: Gary Chryst, Jay
Jolley; Tango Pasodoble: Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell
FP Palm Beach Festival, West Palm Beach Auditorium, Palm Beach FL, 22
March 1983
ST Banff Center; R Alexander Grant and Robin Ryman; FP Banff Center, Banff,
Alberta, 1984
ST Royal Winnipeg
Ballet; R Alexander Grant and Robin Ryman;
FP Manitoba Centennial Concert Hall, Manitoba, 26 December 1984 (taken
over from Banff Center, see above)
ST Colorado Ballet;
R Brian Shaw (restaged 1993 by Alexander Grant); FP Auditorium Theater,
Denver CO, 22 March 1991
ST Ballet of the Teatro
Regio; R Alexander Grant and Faith Worth; FP Teatro Regio, Torino, 18
January 1992
ST Oregon
Ballet Theatre: R Alexander Grant and Margaret
Barbieri; FP Newmark Theatre, Portland OR, 7 May 2004
ST Images
of Dance (London Studio Centre company): R Alexander Grant and Margaret
Barbieri: FP Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage, 4 June 2004
ST Scottish Ballet: R Margaret Barbieri and Alexander Grant:
D Polka: Tomomi Sato; Popular Song: Glauco Di Lieto; Tango Pasodoble:
Claire Robertson, Cristo Vivancos
FP Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 13 April 2005
Mercury
Ballet by Frederick Ashton
M Erik Satie (Mercure, poses plastiques, 1924)
SC William Chappell
D Venus: Tamara Karsavina; Apollo: William Chappell; Three Graces: Maude
Lloyd, Prudence Hyman, Elisabeth Schooling;
Mercury: Frederick Ashton; His Attendants: Betty Cuff, Suzette Morfield,
Elizabeth Ruxton
FP Marie Rambert Dancers, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 22 June 1931
NP Camargo Society:
D Terpsichore (formerly Venus): Alicia Markova; Mercury:
Walter Gore; rest of cast as above, except that Andrée Howard replaced
Elizabeth Ruxton
FP Savoy Theatre, London, 27 June 1932
[Dance
Pretty Lady]
A British International Picture
Produced by Bruce Woolfe
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Screenplay by Anthony Asquith, from the novel Carnival by Compton Mackenzie
Photographed by Jack Parker
Choreographer and technical adviser for the ballet sequences:
Frederick Ashton
M John Reynolds; ballet music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from Swan Lake
and The Nutcracker
Players: Ann Casson, Carl Harbord, Flora Robson, Michael Hogan, Moore
Marriott, Sunday Wilshin, Rene Ray, Hermione Gingold
D The Marie Rambert Corps de Ballet
Filmed during the summer of 1931, released 25 June 1932
Regatta
Ballet in one act by Frederick Ashton
M Gavin Gordon
SC William Chappell
D Cabin Boy: Stanley Judson; Three Yachting Girls: Freda Bamford, Sheila
McCarthy, Joy Newton; Two Young Men: Walter Gore, William Chappell; A
Foreign Visitor: Ninette de Valois
FP Vic-Wells Ballet, Old Vic, London, 22 September 1931
ST Camargo Society;
D as above except Cabin Boy: Hedley Briggs
FP Savoy Theatre, London, 13 June 1932:
The Lady of Shalott
Ballet by Frederick Ashton, after the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
M Jean Sibelius (piano pieces from op. 75, 70, and 85)
SC William Chappell
D The Lady of Shalott: Pearl Argyle; Her Reflection: Maude Lloyd; The
Reapers: Prudence Hyman, Elisabeth Schooling, Betty Cuff, Suzette Morfield,
William Chappell; The Lovers: Andrée Howard, Walter Gore; Sir Lancelot:
Frederick Ashton
FP Ballet Club, London, 12 November 1931
A Day in a Southern
Port
M Constant Lambert (The Rio Grande, 1927)
Poem by Sacheverell Sitwell
Curtain SC Edward Burra
D The Queen of the Port: Lydia Lopokova; Her Sailor: Walter Gore; A Creole
Girl: Alicia Markova; A Creole Boy: William Chappell; Women of the Port,
Stevedores, Stokers, Loiterers, Natives, etc: corps de ballet
FP Camargo Society, Savoy Theatre, London, 29 November 1931
NP Vic-Wells Ballet;
under the title Rio Grande:
D The Queen of the Port: Beatrice Appleyard; The Creole Girl: Margot Fonteyn;
The Stevedore: Walter Gore; The Creole Boy: William Chappell
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 26 March 1935
ST Royal Ballet; Tribute
to Sir Frederick Ashton; Sailor's Dance only: D Alexander Grant; Royal
Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
The
Lord of Burleigh
Scenario by Edwin Evans
M Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, arranged by Edwin Evans, orchestrated by
Gordon Jacob (Overture: Capriccio in A minor, op 33 no.1; Song Without
Words in E major, op 67 no.36; Characteristic Piece, op 7 no.4; Song Without
Words in A minor, op 19 no.2; in F sharp minor, op 19 no.5; Scherzo a
capriccioso in F sharp minor, op 28 no.6; Song Without Words in A major
(Kinderstück), op 102 no.47; Scherzo, from Octet in E flat, op 20;
Song Without Words in B minor, op 30 no. 10; in E flat major, op 53 no.20;
in F sharp minor, op 67 no.32; Andante cantabile e presto agitato in B
minor, 1839; ?Canzonetta, from String quartet in E flat major, op 12;
Finale, from Violin concerto in E minor, op 64)
SC George Sheringham
D Lady Clara Vere de Vere: Diana Gould; Katie Willows: Alicia Markova;
Lilian: Andrée Howard; Mariana: Maude Lloyd; Madeline: Prudence
Hyman; Adeline: Pearl Argyle; Isabel: Phyllis Stanley; Rosalind: Betty
Cuff; Margaret: Elisabeth Schooling; Eleänore: Natalia Gregorova;
Lord of Burleigh: William Chappell; Eustace: Walter Gore; Edwin Morris:
Frederick Ashton; Edward Gray: Antony Tudor
FP Camargo Society, Carlton Theatre, London, 15 December 1931 (in a slightly
abridged version)
NP Camargo Society; complete ballet, somewhat revised;
D as above, except Edwin Morris: Rollo Gamble
FP Savoy Theatre, London, 28 February 1932
NP Vic-Wells Ballet:
D Lady Clara Vere de Vere: Ursula Moreton; Katie Willows: Alicia Markova;
Lilian: Sheila McCarthy; Mariana: Beatrice Appleyard; Madeline: Nadina
Newhouse; Adeline: Marie Nielson; Isabel: Joy Newton; Rosalind: Ailne
Phillips; Margaret: Freda Bamford; Eleänore: Gwyneth Mathews; Lord
of Burleigh: Anton Dolin; Eustace: Claude Newman; Edwin Morris: Antony
Tudor; Edward Gray: Travis Kemp
FP Old Vic, London, 17 October 1932
NP Vic-Wells Ballet;
SC Derek Hill:
D Lady Clara Vere de Vere: Pearl Argyle; Katie Willows: Elizabeth Miller;
Lilian: Julia Farron; Mariana: Ursula Moreton; Madeline: June Brae; Adeline:
Gwyneth Mathews; Isabel: Pamela May; Rosalind: Wenda Horsburgh; Margaret:
Margot Fonteyn; Eleänore: Joy Newton; Lord of Burleigh: Robert Helpmann;
Eustace: Richard Ellis; Edwin Morris: Leslie Edwards; Edward Gray: William
Chappell
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 7 December 1937
ST Royal Ballet: Tribute
to Sir Frederick Ashton; solo, The Lady with the Fan only: D Deanne Bergsma;
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
copyright © 2004
by David Vaughan
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