Title: Chopiniana/Leningrad Symphony/Gayane Divertissements/Melody/The Blind Girl/Gopak Dance/The Dying Swan/Nutcracker Divertissements
Date: Saturday 1st October 1966, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Leningrad State Kirov Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (Chopiniana), Dmitri Shostakovich (Leningrad Symphony), Aram Khachaturian (Gayane Divertissements), Christoph Gluck (Melody), Manuel Ponce (The Blind Girl), Vassily Soloviev-Sedoi (Gopak Dance), Camille Saint-Saëns (The Dying Swan), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker Divertissements)
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine (Chopiniana, The Dying Swan), Igor Belsky (Leningrad Symphony), Nina Anisimova (Gayane Divertissements), Vakhtang Chabukiani (Melody), Leonid Jacobson (The Blind Girl), Boris Fenster (Gopak Dance), Vassily Vainonen after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (The Nutcracker)
Conductors: Victor Shirokov and Victor Fedotov
Collection Number: 3601_1966_01

Cast

Chopiniana

Mazurka and Seventh Waltz: Natalia Makarova
Youth: Sergei Vikulov
Eleventh Waltz: Gabriela Komleva
Prelude: Nina Gruzdeva

and corps de ballet

Leningrad Symphony

Girl: Kaleria Fedicheva
Youth: Yuri Soloviev

Gayane Divertissements (Kurdish Dance & Sabre Dance)

Aisha: Irina Gensler
Armen: Vadim Budarin
Ismail: Konstantin Rassadin

and corps de ballet

Melody

Dancers: Marguerita Zagurskaya and Vadim Desnitsky

The Blind Girl

Dancers: Natalia Makarova and Gennadi Seludsky

Gopak Dance (from Taras Bulba)

Dancer: Alexander Pavlovsky

The Dying Swan

Dancer: Olga Moiseeva

Nutcracker Divertissements (Pas de Deux & Waltz of the Flowers)

Masha: Irina Kolpakova
Prince: Vladilen Semenov

and corps de ballet

Orchestra

First Violins:
Charles Taylor (Leader)
George Hallam
John Ludlow
Anthony Valente
Geoffrey Price
Joyce Nixon
Max Jekel
William Peri
Philip Boothroyd
Penelope Saunders
John Woolf
Edmund Reid
Sydney Marcus
Barbara Chipper

Second Violins:
Reginald Boothroyd
Jack Musikant
John Allan
Leonard Worsley
Bernard Gould
Hansel Gostling
Edward Patston
Prunella Sedgwick
Reginald Crick
Albert Curran
Denis Vine
Ivor Lester (Celeste)

Violas:
Jeremy White
Arnold Newnham
John Brearley
David Chappell
Benedict James
John Forrester
John Hall
John Marshall
John Denman
Peter Barbirolli

Cellos:
Anthony Pini
Karel Horitz
Frederick Ormondroyd
Gordon Fernyhough
Lionel Alberts
Francis Saunders
Phyllis Campbell
John Sephton
Haydn Turner
Judith Lenton

Basses:
Frederick Wigston
Bruce Mollison
John McCormack
Albert Hayward
Nathaniel Paris
Ronald Robinson
John Bakewell

Flutes:
Oliver Bannister
William Morton
Donald Davidson (Piccolo)
John Bowler (Piccolo, Bass Flute)

Oboes:
John Barnett
Alan Wardley
Donald Bridges (Cor anglais)
Anthony McColl (Cor anglais)

Clarinets:
Ian Herbert
Maurice Cody (E flat clarinet)
Colin Parr (E flat clarinet)
Frederick Lowe (Bass clarinet)

Bassoons:
Roger Hagger
Donald Reid
Fritz Berent (Contra bassoon)

Horns:
Anthony Tunstall
Barry Castle
Christopher Satterthwaite
Frank Rycroft
Kenneth Shaw
David Presland
Colin Hinchliff

Trumpets:
Harry Dilley
Denis Wedgwood
Graham Whitling
William Houghton

Trombones:
Harold Nash (Bass trumpet)
David Chandler
John Edney

Bass Trombone and Contra Bass Trombone:
Haydn Trotman

Bass Tuba:
John Jenkins

Timpani:
Alan Taylor
Bernard Harman

Percussion:
Reginald Barker
Reginald Rashleigh
Jack Wakeley
Bernard Harman
Dennis McCarthy

Harps:
David Watkins
Sarah Morley

Crew

For the Mixed Bill

Music Arrangement, The Blind Girl: Heifetz

For the Kirov Ballet

Director General: Pyotr Rachinsky
Artistic Director: Konstantin Sergeyev

Conductors: Victor Federov, Victor Shirokov
Principal Designer: Ivan Sevastianov
Principal Ballet Mistress: Natalia Dudinskaya
Ballet Mistress: Naima Baltacheyeva
Ballet Master: Boris Brouskin

Régisseurs: Oleg Jouravkov, Valentin Ilyin, Nina Ponomarova
Music Staff: Anna Vishnevitch, Sofia Brodskaya
Stage Director: Alexei Smirnov
Machinist: Anatoli Kiselev
Chief Electrician: Aleksei Vassiliev
Property Master: Boris Ivanov
Wardrobe Mistresses: Tamara Petrova, Antonina Arefieva
Make-up Artists: Nadia Sipkina, Tatiana Smirnova

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David Webster
Assistant General Administrator: John Tooley

House Manager: John Collins
Assistant House Manager: Trevor Jones
Resident House Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Box Office Manager: Derek Wilson

Stage Manager: Stella Chitty
Deputy Stage Managers: Alistair Gordon, Michael Thomson
Assistant Stage Manager: Geoffrey Lloyd
Stage Director: William Bundy
Assistant Stage Director: John Healey

Chief Machinist: Edwin Lilly Jnr.
Chief Electrician: Bill McGee
Property Master: Alfred Berrill
Technical Director: John Sullivan
Wardrobe Director: Morgan Rendell
Senior Scene Artist: Peter Courtier
Production Assistant: Norman Dixon
Head Tailor: Kurt Jennings
Wigmaker: Albert Sargood

Orchestra Director: Morris Smith
Orchestra Manager: Honor Thackrah
Orchestral Attendants: John Parker, Ernest Pollikett
Librarian: R. Temple Savage

Programme Printed By: Thomas Jenkins Printers Ltd., London

Notes

Additional Material: A ticket for the performance. The ticket is for seat A8 in the Balcony Stalls, and originally cost £2.