| [The
Sleeping Beauty]
Ballet in a prologue and three acts by Marius Petipa and Ivan Vsevolozhsky,
after Charles Perrault
Produced by Nicholas Sergeyev after the choreography of Marius Petipa,
with additions by Frederick Ashton and Ninette de Valois
M Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (La Belle au bois dormant, ballet, opus 66)
SC Oliver Messel
D Princess Aurora: Margot Fonteyn; Prince Florimund: Robert Helpmann;
The Lilac Fairy: Beryl Grey; Carabosse: Robert Helpmann
Act I Garland Dance
D corps de ballet
Act III Florestan and his Two Sisters
D Moira Shearer, Gerd Larsen, Michael Somes
(first woman's variation by Marius Petipa, from Jewels pas de quatre;
from 20 January 1950 the programme credit for this pas de trois read "by
Frederick Ashton after Petipa")
FP Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 20 February 1946
Act II Aurora's
Variation ("after Marius Petipa")
D Aurora: Beryl Grey
FP Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 9 January 1952
Act III Florimund's
Variation ("after Marius Petipa")
D Florimund: Michael Somes
FP Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 23 February 1955
FP Sadler's
Wells Ballet; adapted for television by Frederick Ashton:
D Princess Aurora: Margot Fonteyn; Prince Florimund: Michael Somes; Lilac
Fairy: Beryl Grey; Carabosse: Frederick Ashton
FP NBC Television (Producers' Showcase), New York NY,
12 December 1955
ST Royal
Ballet touring section; D Aurora: Anya Linden; FP Grand Theatre, Leeds,
14 September 1959
ST The Rose
Adagio; specially produced by Frederick Ashton;
D Aurora: Nadia Nerina; Royal Performance, Prince of Wales Theatre, London,
4 November 1963
Act II The
Awakening Scene
D Aurora: Violette Verdy; Florimund: David Blair
FP Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 29 February 1964
NP Royal
Ballet; production devised and staged by Peter Wright, with new and additional
choreography by Frederick Ashton; S Henry Bardon; C Lila de Nobili and
Rostislav Doboujinsky;
Prologue: The Fairy of Joy
D Georgina Parkinson
Act I Garland Dance (new version)
D corps de ballet
Act II Prince Florimund's Variation (sarabande)
D Anthony Dowell
Act II Pas de deux (Awakening Scene)
D Aurora: Antoinette Sibley; Florimund: Anthony Dowell
Act III Gold and Silver pas de trois
D Jennifer Penney, Brian Shaw, Keith Martin
(original Florestan pas de trois restored 15 March 1972,
under the title Gold and Silver pas de trois:
D Jennifer Penney, Ann Jenner, David Ashmole)
FP Royal Opera House, London, 17 December 1968
NP Royal
Ballet; produced and with new and additional choreography by Kenneth MacMillan;
SC Peter Farmer
This production retained Ashton's choregraphy for Prince
Florimund's variation in Act II D Anthony Dowell and for
the Fairy of Joy, incorporated into a new Jewels pas de six in Act III
D Georgina Parkinson
FP Royal Opera House, London, 15 March 1973
NP Royal
Ballet; production by Ninette de Valois; SC David Walker; this production
included the following numbers by Ashton: Act I Garland Dance (1946 version);
Act II Florimund's variation D Anthony Dowell; Aurora's variation D Lesley
Collier); Pas de deux (Awakening Scene) (later omitted) D Lesley Collier
and Anthony Dowell; Act III Florestan and his Sisters D Stephen Beagley,
Wendy Ellis, Laura Connor; Connor's variation was that for the Fairy of
Joy from the 1968 production
FP Royal Opera House, London, 14 October 1977
NP Royal
Ballet; production by Anthony Dowell; SC Maria Bjornson; this production
included the following numbers by Ashton:
Act II Florimund's variation D Zoltan Solymosi; Aurora's variation D Darcey
Bussell: Act III Gold, Silver, Sapphire, and Diamond (replacing Florestan
and his Sisters): Entrée and coda (Dowell after Ashton) D William
Trevitt, Deborah Bull, Sara Gallie, Muriel Valtat; Sapphire variation
(formerly Fairy of Joy) D Sara Gallie
FP Kennedy Center, Washington DC, 6 April 1994
ST Royal
Ballet/Paris Opera Ballet; Awakening pas de deux only; R Donald MacLeary:
D Darcey Bussell, Laurent Hilaire'
FP Entente Cordiale gala, Opéra National de Paris, Palais Garnier,
29 September 2004
NP Royal Ballet; production by Monica Mason and Christopher Newton, staging by Christopher Carr; SC after Oliver Messel, realized and with additional designs by Peter Farmer; this production included the following numbers by Ashton: Act II Florimund’s variation (Sarabande) D Johan Kobborg; Aurora’s Variation D Alina Cojocaru; Act III Florestan and his Sisters (Entrée and Coda) D Martin Harvey, Belinda Hatley, Deirdre ChapmanFP Royal Opera House, London, 15 May 2006
By
other companies:
ST Royal
Danish Ballet; Prince's Act III solo (1955) in a production of the ballet
by Ninette de Valois; D Henning Kronstam FP Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen,
8 March 1957
ST Gala Ballet
Season; "Awakening" pas de deux only: D Lynn Seymour and Stephen
Jefferies; FP Royal Festival Hall, London, 7 August 1978
ST Boston
Ballet: Act I Garland Dance (1946) and Act II Florimund’s variation
(1968) in a production of the ballet by Patricia Ruanne; D Nelson Madrigal;
SC David Walker (Royal Ballet 1977): FP Wang Theatre, Boston MA, 5 May
2005
ST New York City Ballet: Act II Aurora’s variation after Frederick
Ashton (1952), uncredited; in a production of the ballet by Peter Martins;
D Darci Kistler; S David Mitchell; C Patricia Zipprodt; FP New York State
Theater, New York NY, 24 April 1991
Symphonic
Variations
M César Franck (Variations symphoniques, for piano and orchestra,
1885)
SC Sophie Fedorovitch
D Margot Fonteyn, Pamela May, Moira Shearer, Michael Somes, Henry Danton,
Brian Shaw
FP Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 24 April 1946
ST Royal
Ballet touring section; D Antoinette Sibley, Jennifer Penney, Laura Connor,
Anthony Dowell, Robert Mead, Michael Coleman; FP Theatre Royal, Nottingham,
9 November 1970
ST Birmingham
Royal Ballet; R Michael Somes: D Rachel Peppin, Sherilyn Kennedy, Susan
Lucas, Kevin O'Hare, David Bailey, Vincent Redmon; FP Hippodrome, Birmingham,
19 October 1992
By
other companies:
ST Fonteyn
World Tour, 1965; D Margot Fonteyn, Annette Page, Shirley Grahame, Royes
Fernandez, Ronald Hynd, Alexander Grant
FP Athens Festival, Herod Atticus Theatre, Athens, 9 August 1963
ST Het Nationale
Ballet; R Michael Somes and Wendy Ellis:
FP Muziektheater, Amsterdam, 18 October 1989
ST American
Ballet Theatre; R Michael Somes, assisted by Judy Maelor-Thomas: D Cynthia
Harvey, Ashley Tuttle, Sandra Brown, Ethan Brown, Parrish Maynard, Wes
Chapman FP Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, 29 March 1992
ST National
Ballet of Canada; R Wendy Ellis Somes: FP O'Keefe Centre for the Performing
Arts, Toronto, 8 May 1996
ST San Francisco
Ballet; R Wendy Ellis Somes:
D Julie Diana, Vanessa Zahorian, Tina LeBlanc, Damian Smith,
Joan Boada, Nicolas Blanc
FP War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco CA, 13 April 2004
ST An Evening
of British Ballet: R Bruce Sansom and Wendy Ellis Somes; C only Sophie
Fedorovitch
D Alina Cojocaru, Johann Kobborg, Deirdre Chapman, Ricardo Cervera, Lauren
Culbertson, Edward Watson
FP Festival de Sintra, Portugal, 23 July 2004
Les
Sirènes
Ballet by Frederick Ashton
M Lord Berners
SC Cecil Beaton
D Mermaids: Palma Nye, Gillian Lynne; Seagulls: Margaret Dale, Alexis
Rassine; Children: Pauline Clayden, Alexander Grant,
Guinevere Parry, Mavis Spence; Nannies: Anne Gieves, Fiorella Keane; Gendarmes:
Paul Reymond, Alec Martin; Flowerwoman: Betty Cooper; Countess Kitty:
Beryl Grey; Captain Bay Vavasour; Michael Somes; La Bolero: Margot Fonteyn;
Her Chauffeur: Leslie Edwards; King Hihat of Agpar: Frederick Ashton;
Adelino Canberra (of the Adelaide Opera): Robert Helpmann; The Smart Set,
King Hihat's Suite: corps de ballet
FP Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 12 November 1946
The
Fairy Queen
Masque in three acts, after William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream
M Henry Purcell (1692), adapted by Constant Lambert (in association with
Edward J Dent)
Production by Frederick Ashton and Malcolm Baker-Smith
Curtain SC Michael Ayrton
Players: Margaret Rawlings, Robert Helpmann, James Kenney, Tony Tarver,
Edgar Evans, Audrey Bowman, Constance Shacklock, Harcourt Williams, Michael
Hordern
D Tatiana's train: Julia Farron, Gerd Larsen, Palma Nye, Lorna Mossford,
Rosemary Lindsay, Joan Grantham, Christine du Boulay, Margaret Sear; Ballet
of the Birds: Anne Negus, Pauline Clayden, Avril Navarre, Jill Gregory;
Echo Dancers: Beryl Grey, Gillian Lynne, Margaret Dale; The Followers
of Night: corps de ballet; Four Fairies: Anne Negus, Pauline Clayden,
Jill Gregory, Avril Navarre; A Nymph: Moira Shearer; Savages: Franklin
White, Kenneth Melville, Paddy Stone, Alexander Grant; Spirits of the
Air: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes; Phoebus: David Davenport; Attendants
on Spring: Moira Shearer and corps de ballet; Attendants on Summer: Beryl
Grey and corps de ballet; Attendants on Autumn: Michael Somes and corps
de ballet; Attendants on Winter: David Paltenghi and corps de ballet;
Four Chinese Dancers: Alexis Rassine, John Hart, Pauline Clayden, Margaret
Dale; Two Chinese Children: Veronica Vail, Peter Clegg; Hymen: Richard
Ellis
FP Covent Garden Opera and Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London,
12 December 1946
ST Ny Norsk
Ballet; Spirits of the Air pas de deux only;
D Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann FP Norske Theatre, Oslo, 30 January
1950
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