Title: Giselle/La Boutique Fantasque
Date: Saturday 4th December 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: Warwick Braithwaite
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Cast

Giselle

Giselle: Moira Shearer
Count Albrecht: Alexis Rassine
Hilarion: Leslie Edwards
Wilfred, attendant on Albrecht: Richard Ellis

Berthe, Giselle’s Mother: Elizabeth Kennedy
The Duke of Courland: Alfred Rodriques
The Princess, his daughter: June Brae
Children: Nadia Nerina, Avril Navarre, Anne Negus, Margaret Dale, Jill Gregory, Pauline Clayden
Peasants: Rosemary Valaire, Anne Heaton, Christine Du Boulay, Wendy Winn, Margaret Sear, Anne Gieves, Rowena Jackson, Fiorella Keane, Thekla Russell, Dorothea Zaymes, Pauline Wadsworth, Sheila Nelson
Huntsmen: Donald Britton, Paul Reymond, Henry Legerton, Bryan Ashbridge, Rands Trevor, Charles Lisner, Robert Lunnon, Kenneth MacMillan
Attendants: Shirley Bishop, Vera Winternitz, Rosalind Vicarey, Anne Jomeron, Valerie Taylor, Brenda Averty

Myrtha: Gillian Lynne
Zulme: Lorna Mossford
Moyna: Rosemary Lindsay
Wilis: Margaret Dale, Anne Negus, Anne Heaton, Jill Gregory, Pauline Wadsworth, Margaret Sear, Dorothea Zaymes, Anne Gieves, Nadia Nerina, Sheila Nelson, Fiorella Keane, Thekla Russell, Christine Du Boulay, Wendy Winn, Rowena Jackson, Gerd Larsen, Avril Navarre, Rosemary Valaire

La Boutique Fantasque

The Shopkeeper: John Hart
His Assistant: Henry Legerton
A Thief: Ivan Dregadze
An English Old Maid: Margaret Grahame
Her Friend: Jean Stokes
An American: Leslie Edwards
His Wife: Thekla Russell
Their Son: Terence Paul
Their Daughter: Margaret Dale
A Russian Merchant: Alfred Rodriques
His Wife: Palma Nye
Their Son: Rands Trevor
Their four daughters: Jill Gregory, Margaret Sear, Anne Negus, Sheila Nelson
Two Assistants: Bryan Ashbridge, Kenneth MacMillan

Dolls-
Two Dolls: Dorothea Zaymes, Anne Gieves
Tarantella Dancers: Julia Farron, Alexander Grant
The Queen of Clubs: June Brae
The Queen of Diamonds: Gillian Lynne
The King of Spades: Philip Chatfield
The King of Hearts: Kenneth Melville
The Snob: Alexis Rassine
The Melon Hawker: Franklin White
A Cossack Girl: Violetta Elvin
A Cossack Chief: John Field
Five Cossacks: Charles Lisner, John Cranko, Gilbert Vernon, Brian Shaw, Robert Lunnon
Dancing Poodles: Pauline Clayden, Donald Britton
Can-Can Dancers: Pamela May, Harold Turner
Their Twelve Friends: Lorna Mossford, Rosemary Lindsay, Avril Navarre, Anne Gieves, Fiorella Keane, Anne Heaton, Christine Du Boulay, Dorothea Zaymes, Pauline Wadsworth, Wendy Winn, Rowena Jackson, Rosemary Valaire

Crew

For the Double Bill

Staging, Giselle: Nicholas Sergeyev
Costumes and Scenery, Giselle: James Bailey
Costumes Executed By, Giselle: Olivia Cranmer, Alex Shanks, Messrs. Dix.
Hats, Giselle: Mme. Allen
Jewellery, Giselle: Beatrice Dawson
Dyeing and Fabric Painting, Giselle: Vivienne Kernot
Headdress, Giselle: Joseph Roth
Scenery Builders, Giselle: Brunskill & Loveday
Scenery Painters, Giselle: Alick Johnstone

Music 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
Artistic Direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Mary Skeaping
Maître de ballet: Harijs Plucis
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Librarian: R. Temple Savage

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Box Office Managers: A.M. Wolstenholme, D. Wilson
Production Manager: Daphne Cawson
Stage Director: Henry Robinson
Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Assistant Stage Manager: Bruce Corder
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Property Master: Jack Lovell

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