Title: Giselle/La Boutique Fantasque
Date: Monday 21st June 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Adolphe Adam (Giselle), Gioachino Rossini (La Boutique Fantasque)
Choreographer: Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Giselle), Léonide Massine (La Boutique Fantasque)
Production: Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1946 production (Giselle), 1947 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (La Boutique Fantasque)
Conductor: Unknown
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Cast

Giselle

Giselle: Alicia Markova
Count Albrecht: Anton Dolin
Hilarion: Leslie Edwards
Wilfred, Attendant on Albrecht: Richard Ellis

Act I-
Berthe, Giselle’s Mother: Elizabeth Kennedy
Duke of Courland: David Davenport
Princess, Daughter of the Duke: Jean Bedells
Children: Nadia Nerina, Avril Navarre, Anne Negus, Margaret Dale, Jill Gregory, Guinevere Parry
Peasants: Rosemary Valaire, Anne Heaton, Joan Grantham, Christine Du Boulay, Margaret Sear, Anne Gieves, Veronica Vail, Fiorella Keane, Jean Stokes, Thekla Russell, Palma Nye, Dorothea Zaymes
Huntsmen: Kenneth Melville, Alec Martin, Donald Britton, Gilbert Vernon, Ray Powell, Alfred Rodrique, Bryan Ashbridge, Henry Legerton
Attendants: Joan Cadzow, Shirley Bishop, Anne Jomeron, Anne Horne, Vera Winternitz, Rosalind Vicarey

Act II-
Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis: Pamela May
Zulme: Lorna Mossford
Moyna: Gerd Larsen
Wilis: Pauline Clayden, Anne Negus, Anne Heaton, Jill Gregory, Guinevere Parry, Margaret Sear, Dorothea Zaymes, Anne Gieves, Jean Stokes, Nadia Nerina, Veronica Vail, Joan Grantham, Fiorella Keane, Thekla Russell, Wendy Winn, Christine Du Boulay, Rosemary Valaire, Palma Nye

La Boutique Fantasque

The Shopkeeper: John Hart
His Assistant: Henry Legerton
A Thief: Kenneth Melville
An English Old Maid: Margaret Graham
Her Friend: Joan Cadzow
An American: Leslie Edwards
His Wife: Margaret Graham
Their Son: Tony Tarver
Their Daughter: Margaret Dale
A Russian Merchant: David Davenport
His Wife: Palma Nye
Their Son: Rands Trevor
Their Four Daughters: Margaret Sear, Anne Negus, Guinevere Parry, Veronica Vail
Two Assistants: Alfred Rodrique, Alec Martin

Dolls-
Two Dolls: Jill Gregory, Dorothea Zaymes
Tarantella Dancers: Julia Farron, Alexander Grant
The Queen of Clubs: Beryl Grey
The Queen of Diamonds: Pamela May
The King of Spades: Philip Chatfield
The King of Hearts: Richard Ellis
The Snob: Alexis Rassine
The Melon Hawker: Franklin White
A Cossack Girl: Violetta Elvin
A Cossack Chief: Michael Somes
Five Cossacks: John Cranko, Gilbert Vernon, Ray Powell, Robert Lunnon, John Field
Dancing Poodles: Pauline Clayden, Peter Clegg
Can-Can Dancers: Moira Shearer, Harold Turner
Their Twelve Friends: Lorna Mossford, Rosemary Lindsay, Anne Gieves, Fiorella Keane, Christine Du Boulay, Joan Grantham, Avril Navarre, Dorothea Zaymes, Wendy Winn, Jean Stokes, Nadia Nerina, Rosemary Valaire

Crew

For the Double Bill

Staging, Giselle: Nicholas Sergeyev
Costumes and Scenery, Giselle: James Bailey
Scenery Building, Giselle: Brunskill & Loveday
Scenery Painting, Giselle: Alick Johnstone
Costume Execution, Giselle: Olivia Cranmer, Alex Shanks, Messrs. Dix
Head Dress Execution, Giselle: Joseph Roth
Head Dress Execution for Giselle & Myrtha, Giselle: Hugh Skillen
Hats, Giselle: Mme Allen
Jewellery, Giselle: Beatrice Dawson
Dyeing and Fabric Painting, Giselle: Vivienne Kernot

Orchestration, La Boutique Fantasque: Ottorino Respighi
Curtain, Scenery and Costumes, La Boutique Fantasque: André Derain

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
Technical Director, Covent Garden Opera Trust: Reece Pemberton
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

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

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