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An adaptation by Doris Langley Moore of a theme from Edmund Spenser's
The Faerie Queene
M William Walton
SC John Piper
D Archimago (a Magician personifying Hypocrisy): Leslie Edwards; Female
Servant (transformed into Una): Celia Franca; Male Servant: Anthony Burke;
Bats (Evil Spirits): Pauline Clayden, Lorna Mossford; St George (the Red
Cross Knight, personifying Holiness): Robert Helpmann; Una (personifying
Truth): Margot Fonteyn; Saracen Knights: Sansjoy: David Paltenghi; Sansloy:
Alexis Rassine; Sansfoy: Franklin White; Duessa (personifying Falsehood)
Beryl Grey; The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride (as Queen): Moira Shearer; Sloth:
Nigel Desmond; Gluttony: Ray Powell; Wrath: Celia Franca; Lechery: Anthony
Burke; Avarice: Gordon Hamilton; Envy: Palma Nye; Faith: Julia Farron;
Hope: Moyra Fraser; Charity: Jean Bedells; Courtiers and Attendant Virtues:
corps de ballet
FP Sadler's Wells Ballet, New Theatre, London, 6 April 1943
copyright
© 2004 by David Vaughan
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