Les Patineurs/Giselle, The Sadler’s Wells Ballet- Thursday 11th May 1944

Title: Les Patineurs/Giselle
Date: Thursday 11th May 1944, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: King’s Theatre, Hammersmith, London, England
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer (Les Patineurs), Adolphe Adam (Giselle)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Les Patineurs), Nicholas Sergeyev after Marius Petipa and Jean Coralli (Giselle)
Production: Original 1937 production (Les Patineurs), Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1934 production (Giselle)
Conductor: Unknown, most likely Constant Lambert or Alec Sherman
Collection Folder: Folder 32

Cast

Les Patineurs

Entrée: Pauline Clayden, Joan Sheldon
Pas-de-huit: Mavis Jackson, Avril Navarre, Anne Negus, Guinevere Parry, Eric Hyrst, Franklin White, Douglas Stuart, Philip Chatfield
Variation: Gordon Hamilton
Pas-de-deux: Moira Shearer, David Paltenghi
Ensemble: Full Cast
Pas-de-trois: Pauline Clayden, Joan Sheldon, Gordon Hamilton
Pas-des-Patineuses: Celia Franca, Jean Bedells
Finale: Full Cast

Giselle

Giselle: Beryl Grey
Albrecht: Alexis Rassine
Hilarion: Ray Powell

Act I-
Berthe, Giselle’s Mother: Wenda Horsburgh
The Duke of Courland: Anthony Burke
The Princess: Joy Newton
Wilfred, attendant to Albrecht: Leslie Edwards
Pas-de-quatre: Anne Negus, Joan Valerie, Avril Navarre, Jill Gregory
Peasants, Duke’s party etc.: Artists of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Act II-
Myrtha: Pamela May
Zulme: Moira Shearer
Moyna: Julia Farron
Wili: Artists of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Crew

For the Double Bill

Music Arranger, Les Patineurs: Constant Lambert
Costumes and Decor, Les Patineurs, Giselle: William Chappell

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

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