Title: Les Patineurs/Symphonic Variations/A Mirror for Witches
Date: Friday 27th June 1952, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer (Les Patineurs), César Franck (Symphonic Variations), Denis ApIvor (A Mirror for Witches)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Les Patineurs, Symphonic Variations), Andrée Howard (A Mirror for Witches)
Production: Original 1937 production (Les Patineurs), Original 1946 production (Symphonic Variations), Original 1952 production (A Mirror for Witches)
Conductor: Robert Irving
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Les Patineurs

Entrée: Rowena Jackson, Avril Navarre
Pas-de-huit: Brenda Taylor, Mary Drage, Rosemary Valaire, Wendy Winn, Philip Chatfield, Bryan Ashbridge, Desmond Doyle, Kenneth Melville
Variation: Peter Clegg
Pas-de-deux: Julia Farron, John Hart
Ensemble: Valerie Taylor, Anna Carne, Rowena Jackson, Avril Navarre, Peter Clegg, Brenda Taylor, Mary Drage, Rosemary Valaire, Wendy Winn, Philip Chatfield, Bryan Ashbridge, Desmond Doyle, Kenneth Melville
Pas-de-trois: Rowena Jackson, Avril Navarre, Peter Clegg
Pas-des-Patineuses: Valerie Taylor, Anna Carne
Ensemble: Valerie Taylor, Anna Carne, Rowena Jackson, Avril Navarre, Philip Chatfield, Bryan Ashbridge, Desmond Doyle, Kenneth Melville
Finale: Ensemble

Symphonic Variations

Dancers: Margot Fonteyn, Rosemary Lindsay, Pauline Clayden, John Field, Brian Shaw, John Hart

Solo Pianist: Jean Gilbert

A Mirror for Witches

A Witch: Rosemary Valaire
Doll, her daughter, as a child: Judith Sinclair
Bilby, a ship’s Captain: Leslie Edwards
Hannah, his wife: Julia Farron
Doll, their foster child as a young girl: Anne Heaton
Titus, a young man of the village: Philip Chatfield
The Twins, his sisters: Margaret Dale, Joan Benesh
The Stranger: John Hart

Villagers, Fiends, Warlocks: Shirley Bateman, Valerie Taylor, Angela Walton, Catherine Boulton, June Lesley, Anya Linden, Deidre Dixon, Wendy Winn, Desmond Doyle, Douglas Steuart, Ray Powell, Peter Clegg, Ronald Hynd, John Sale, Bryan Ashbridge, William Barrett
Priests: Franklin White, Gilbert Vernon
Witches, Soldiers, Peasants, Men, Women, Judge and Councillors: Diane Westerman, Yvonne English, Fiorella Keane, Greta Hamby, Meriel Evans, Mary Drage, Diane Forhan, Helen Trevor, Marion Astill, Valerie Adams, Anne Parson, Cynthia Blowers, Jean Horne, Margaret Leisk, Russell Kerr, Joan Weston, Dorothea Zaymes, Antony Manning, Leon Arnold, Bryan Ashbridge, Franklin White, Ray Powell, Donald Barclay, Keith Milland, Kenneth Melville, Donald Kilgour, Colin Worth, Gary Burne

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Costumes and Scenery, Les Patineurs: William Chappell
Décor and Costumes, Symphonic Variations: Sophie Fedorovitch
Costumes, A Mirror for Witches: Andrée Howard, Norman Adams
Scenery, A Mirror for Witches: Norman Adams
Lighting, A Mirror for Witches: John Sullivan

Costume Making, All Works: Olivia Cranmer
Scenery Building, All Works: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting, Les Patineurs: Edward Delaney
Scenery Painting, Symphonic Variations, A Mirror for Witches: Clement Glock
Fabric Dyeing and Painting, A Mirror for Witches: Barbara Ternouth, Beatrice Bendelow
Property Making, A Mirror for Witches: Jack Lovell

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Musical Director: Robert Irving
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Stage Manager: Michael Manuel
Professor of Dancing and Répétiteur: Harijs Plucis
Ballet Master: Alfred Rodriques
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
Deputy General Administrator: Steuart Wilson
Stage Director: Louis Yudkin
Production Manager: John Sullivan
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Orchestra Leader: Thomas Matthews
Librarian: R. Temple Savage
Chief Machinist: Horace Fox
Chief Electrician: William Bundy
Property Master: Jack Lovell
Resident House Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney

Programme Printed By: Finden Brown & Co., London