Title: Les Patineurs/Le Tricorne/Ballet Imperial
Date: Wednesday 27th February 1952, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer (Les Patineurs), Manuel de Falla (Le Tricorne), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet Imperial)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Les Patineurs), Léonide Massine (Le Tricorne), George Balanchine (Ballet Imperial)
Production: Revival of Original 1937 Production (Les Patineurs), Revival of 1947 Sadler’s Wells Ballet Production (Le Tricorne), Revival of 1950 Sadler’s Wells Ballet Production (Ballet Imperial)
Conductor: Robert Irving
Collection Folder: Folder 22

Cast

Les Patineurs

Entrée: Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina
Pas-de-huit: Christine Du Boulay, Mary Drage, Rosemary Valaire, Wendy Winn, Douglas Steuart, Gilbert Vernon, Bryan Ashbridge, William Barrett
Variation: Brian Shaw
Pas-de-deux: Julia Farron, John Hart
Ensemble: Greta Hamby, Rosemary Lindsay, Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina, Brian Shaw, Christine Du Boulay, Mary Drage, Rosemary Valaire, Wendy Winn, Douglas Steuart, Gilbert Vernon, Bryan Ashbridge, William Barrett
Pas-de-trois: Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina, Brian Shaw
Pas-de-Patineurs: Greta Hamby, Rosemary Lindsay
Ensemble: Greta Hamby, Rosemary Lindsay, Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina, Douglas Steuart, Gilbert Vernon, Bryan Ashbridge, William Barrett
Finale: Ensemble

Le Tricorne

The Miller: Harold Turner
The Miller’s Wife: Violetta Elvin
The Governor: John Hart
The Governor’s Wife: Valerie Adams
The Dandy: Alexander Grant
Police: William Barrett, Franklin White, Bryan Ashbridge, Henry Naughton, Donald Barclay, Desmond Doyle
Neighbours: Joan Benesh, Avril Navarre, Valerie Taylor, Dorothea Zaymes, Catherine Boulton, Fiorella Keane, Shirley Bateman, Angela Walton, Ray Powell, Douglas Steuart, Ronald Hynd, Henry Legerton, Gilbert Vernon, Kenneth Melville, Philip Chatfield, Peter Clegg
Jota: Julia Farron, April Olrich, Mary Drage, Rosemary Valaire, Greta Hamby, Wendy Winn, Christine Du Boulay and Full Company
Fools: Anthony Manning, Keith Milland
Beggars: Valerie Adams, David Shields

Singer: Barbara Howitt

Ballet Imperial

Dancers: Rowena Jackson, Kenneth Melville, Rosemary Lindsay, Nadia Nerina, Pauline Clayden, Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Anya Linden, Christine Du Boulay, Fiorella Keane, Catherine Boulton, Jill Gregory, Wendy Winn, Greta Hamby, Anne Heaton, Angela Walton, June Lesley, Rosemary Valaire, Mary Drage, Joan Benesh, April Olrich, Valerie Taylor, Yvonne English, Douglas Steuart, Franklin White, Gilbert Vernon, Desmond Doyle, William Barrett, Peter Clegg

Solo Pianist: Jean Gilbert

Crew

For the Mixed Bill

Scenery and Costumes, Les Patineurs: William Chappell
Scenery Building, Les Patineurs and Ballet Imperial: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting, Les Patineurs: Edward Delaney
Costume Making, Les Patineurs and Ballet Imperial: Olivia Cranmer
Scenery and Costumes, Le Tricorne: Pablo Picasso
Scenery and Costumes, Ballet Imperial: Eugene Berman
Scenery Painting, Ballet Imperial: Clement Glock
Maker of Head-dresses, Ballet Imperial: Hugh Skillen

For the Royal Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Ballet Company General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Maître de Ballet: Harijs Plucis
Stage Manager: Michael Manuel
Assistant Ballet Mistresses: Elizabeth Kennedy, Thekla Russell
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert
Stage Director: Louis Yudkin
Production Manager: John Sullivan
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Librarian: R. Temple Savage
Chief Machinist: Horace Fox
Chief Electrician: William Bundy
Property Master: Jack Lovell
Resident House Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Orchestra Leader: Thomas Matthews

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
Deputy General Administrator: Steuart Wilson
House Manager: Neville Coppel
Box Office Manager: Derek Wilson

Programme Printed By: Finden Brown & Co. Ltd.

Notes

Signed by: Violetta Elvin, Rosemary Valaire