Coppélia, The Sadler’s Wells Ballet- Saturday 14th November 1942

*The front of the programme, signed by Ninette de Valois*

Title: Coppélia
Date: Saturday 14th November 1942, Matinee
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: New Theatre, London, England
Composer: Léo Delibes
Choreographer: Enrico Cecchetti and Marius Petipa after Arthur Saint-Léon
Additional Choreography: Nicholas Sergeyev (Betrothal, Act III Grand Pas de deux, Franz’s Act III variation, Finale)
Production: Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1940 production
Conductor: Constant Lambert
Collection Folder: Folder 22

Cast

Swanilda: Mary Honer
Franz: Alexis Rassine
Dr Coppélius: David Paltenghi
Coppélia: Margaret Kelly
Burgomaster: Carol Bertram

Act I-
Swanilda’s Friends: Joan Sheldon, Jean Bedells, Elizabeth Kennedy, Mavis Jackson, Guinevere Parry, Pauline Clayden
Mazurka: Palma Nye, Patricia Garnett, John Field, Wenda Horsburgh, Celia Franca, June Vincent, Mary Loraine, Pauline Dunning, Lorna Mossford, Gordon Hamilton, Franklin White, David Davenport, Anthony Burke, Nigel Desmond, Ray Powell
Czardas: Palma Nye, Alexis Rassine, Ensemble

Act II-
Swanilda’s Friends: Joan Sheldon, Jean Bedells, Elizabeth Kennedy, Mavis Jackson, Guinevere Parry, Pauline Clayden

Act III-
The Duke: Anthony Burke
Peasants: Franklin White, Anthony Burke, Nigel Desmond, Ray Powell
Follies: Patricia Garnett, June Vincent, Guinevere Parry, Margaret Kelly, Mavis Jackson
Dance of the Hours: Artists of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Dawn: Julia Farron
Prayer: Palma Nye
Betrothal Dance: Joan Sheldon, Gordon Hamilton
Work: Mavis Jackson, Moira Shearer, Pauline Clayden, Anne Lascelles
Finale: Full Company

Crew

For Coppélia

Scenery and Costume Design: William Chappell
Orchestration, Act III: Gordon Jacob

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Administrators of the Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells Companies: Bronson Albery, Tyrone Guthrie
General Manager: Donald Albery
Ballet Mistress: Joy Newton
Academic Tuition: Mary Honer
Stage Director: Harold Arneil
Stage Management: Henry Robinson
Orchestra Director: Constant Lambert
Orchestra Leader: John Fisher

Acting Manager: Noel Plant
Press Representative: Eveleigh Leith