Title: Giselle/Le Tricorne
Date: Thursday 8th April 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Adolphe Adam (Giselle), Manuel de Falla (Le Tricorne)
Choreographer: Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Giselle), Léonide Massine (Le Tricorne)
Production: Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1946 production (Giselle), 1947 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (Le Tricorne)
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Giselle

Giselle: Beryl Grey
Count Albrecht: Alexis Rassine
Hilarion: Leslie Edwards
Wilfred, attendant on Albrecht: Richard Ellis

Act 1-
Berthe: Elizabeth Kennedy
Duke of Courland: David Davenport
Princess: Jean Bedells
Children: Margaret Dale, Pauline Clayden, Anne Negus, Avril Navarre, Jill Gregory, Nadia Nerina
Peasants: Rosemary Valaire, Jean Stokes, Joan Grantham, Christine Du Boulay, Margaret Sear, Anne Gieves, Veronica Vail, Thekla Russell, Rowena Jackson, Fiorella Keane, Dorothea Zaymes
Huntsmen: Kenneth Melville, Alec Martin, Philip Chatfield, Gilbert Vernon, John Cranko, Alfred Rodriques, Henry Legerton, Donald Britton
Attendants: Shirley Bishop, Joan Cadzow, Mary Drage, Rosalind Vicary, Vera Winternitz, Mary Jane Harris

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

Le Tricorne

The Miller: Harold Turner
The Miller’s Wife: Violetta Elvin
The Governor: John Hart
The Governor’s Wife: Wendy Winn
The Dandy: Alexander Grant
Policemen: David Davenport, Leslie Edwards, Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Alfred Rodriques, John Cranko
Neighbours: Gerd Larsen, Avril Navarre, Anne Gieves, Rosemary Lindsay, Margaret Sear, Fiorella Keane, Joan Grantham, Dorothea Zaymes, Ray Powell, Richard Ellis, Franklin White, Paul Reymond, Kenneth Melville, Alec Martin, Henry Legerton, John Field
Jota: Moira Shearer, Palma Nye, Lorna Mossford, Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Valaire, Jean Stokes, Christine Du Boulay, and Full Company
Fools: Gilbert Vernon, Tony Tarver
Beggars: Rands Trevor, Elizabeth Kennedy

Singer: Vera Hoddinott

Crew

For the Double Bill

Scenery and Costumes, Giselle: James Bailey
Scenery Painting, Giselle: Alick Johnstone
Scenery Building, Giselle: Brunskill and Loveday
Costume Execution, Giselle: Olivia Cranmer, Alec Shanks, Messrs. Dix
Head-Dress Execution, Giselle: Joseph Roth
Head-Dress Execution, ‘Giselle’ and ‘Myrtha’: Hugh Skillen
Hats, Giselle: Madame Allen
Jewellery, Giselle: Beatrice Dawson
Dyeing and Fabric Painting, Giselle: Vivienne Kernot

Scenery and Costumes, Le Tricorne: Pablo Picasso

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., London