Title: Coppélia
Date: Saturday 5th June 1948, Matinee
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, 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: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Swanilda: Moira Shearer
Franz: Alexis Rassine
Dr Coppelius: Leslie Edwards
Coppélia: Guinevere Parry
Swanilda’s Friends: Pauline Clayden, Anne Negus, Violetta Elvin, Nadia Nerina, Anne Heaton, Jill Gregory, Anne Gieves, Dorothea Zaymes

Act I-
Burgomaster: David Davenport
His Wife: Joan Cadzow
Attendants to the Burgomaster’s Wife: Vera Winternitz, Rosalind Vicary
Four Children: Tony Tarver, Rands Trevor, Wendy Hyde, Noreen Sopwith
Mazurka & Czardas: Julia Farron, Palma Nye, Richard Ellis, Alexander Grant, Joan Grantham, Wendy Winn, Rowena Jackson, Christine Du Boulay, Jean Stokes, Thekla Russell, Fiorella Keane, Margaret Sear, John Cranko, Kenneth Melville, Paul Reymond, Gilbert Vernon, Donald Britton, Ray Powell, Franklin White, Henry Legerton
Innkeeper: Alec Martin

Act II-
Chinese Doll: Veronica Vail
Crusader Doll: Noreen Sopwith
Pierrot Doll: Rosalind Averty
Astrologer Doll: Shirley Bishop
Oriental Doll: Wendy Hyde

Act III-
Duke: David Davenport
Duchess: Vera Winternitz
Father Time: Alfred Rodrique
Attendant’s to the Duke: William Martin, Ronald Plaisted, Rosalind Vicary, Anne Jomeron

Dance of the Hours: Veronica Vail, Margaret Sear, Thekla Russell, Anne Gieves, Christine Du Boulay, Joan Grantham, Rosemary Valaire, Rowena Jackson, Jean Stokes, Fiorella Keane, Anne Heaton, Joan Cadzow
Aurora: Rosemary Lindsay
Prayer: Gillian Lynne
Betrothal: Violetta Elvin, Franklin White
Work: Palma Nye, Lorna Mossford, Pauline Clayden, Julia Farron
Finale: Elizabeth Kennedy, Jill Gregory, Guinevere Parry, Nadia Nerina, Dorothea Zaymes
Peasant Boys: Kenneth Melville, Alexander Grant, Ray Powell, Philip Chatfield, Gilbert Vernon, John Cranko, Donald Britton, Henry Legerton

Crew

For Coppélia

Scenery and Costumes: William Chappell
Orchestration, Act III: Gordon Jacob

Costume Execution: Olivia Cranmer (Act I), William Chappell (Acts II & III)
‘Valse des heures’ Costume Execution: Kitty Hume
Act I Headdress Execution: Josef Roth
Fabric Dyeing and Painting: Bettina Pacey, Barbara Ternouth

Scenery Building: Edward Waldren
Scenery Painting: Key Studios
Property Making: Jack Lovell, Harry Coverdale

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Jean Bedells
Accompanists: Edna Downing, Ena Child
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Box Office Manager: A.M. Wolstenholme
Stage Director: Henry Robinson
Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Property Master: Jack Lovell

Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Conductors: Geoffrey Corbett, Hugo Rignold

Programme Printed By: Finden Brown & Co Ltd., London

Notes

In the Act II cast listing Anne Negus is credited twice as one of Swanilda’s Friends. I believe this to be a misprint for Anne Gieves, who is credited in Act I but not in Act II.