Title: Les Rendezvous/Giselle
Date: Friday 4th October 1974, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet (here called The Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells)
Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Composer: Daniel Auber (Les Rendezvous), Adolphe Adam (Giselle)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Les Rendezvous), Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Giselle)
Production: Ashton’s 1959 production for the Royal Ballet (Les Rendezvous), Peter Wright’s 1968 production (Giselle)
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
Collection Number: 2401_1974_01

Cast

Les Rendezvous

Entree de Promeneurs: Marion Tait, Stephen Jefferies, Petal Miller, Brian Bertscher, Kim Reeder, Elizabeth Francis, Josephine Holling, Sherilyn Kennedy, Jeanetta Laurence, Marion Lindsay, Sally Powell, Colin Dye, Graham Goodbody, Ashley Killar, Murray Kilgour, Douglas Vardon, Paul Waller
Pas de Quatre: Christine Aitken, Susan Burton, Anya Evans, Moira McCormack
Variation: Stephen Jefferies
Pas de Trois: Petal Miller, Brian Bertscher, Kim Reeder
Variation: Marion Tait
Pas de Six: Colin Dye, Graham Goodbody, Ashley Killar, Murray Kilgour, Douglas Vardon, Paul Waller
Sortie des Promeneurs: Artists of the Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells

Giselle

Giselle: Margaret Barbieri
Albrecht: Alain Dubreuil
Hilarion: David Morse
Wilfred, Albrecht’s Squire: Michael Harper
Berthe, Giselle’s Mother: Jeanetta Laurence
Duke of Courland: Ronald Plaisted
Bathilde, his daughter: Hilary Cartwright
Pas de Quatre: Anya Evans, Petal Miller, Brian Bertscher, Kim Reeder
Peasants and Courtiers: Artists of the Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells
Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis: Kathryn Wade
Zulme: Rashna Homji
Moyna: Anya Evans
Wilis: Artists of the Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells

Orchestra

First Violins:
Roland Stanbridge (Leader)
John Ford
Penelope Saunders
Bridget Procter
Charles Beldom
Shirley Bennett
Fiona Diack
Harvey Lazarus
Antonio Alvarez
Linda Howieson

Second Violins:
Winston Holloway
Ellen Martin
Elizabeth Spurrell
Paul Samuels
Susan Fouracre
June Wilson
Eileen Davies
Geoffrey Hawcutt

Violas:
Richard Holttum
Robyn Brookfield
Daphne Maxwell
Jonathan Welch
Antonia del Mar
Ambrose Miller

Cellos:
Ann Barber
Sally Talbot
Charlotte Ward
Julia Norman
Mary Hillier

Basses:
Duncan Mitchell
Ronald Dunning
Dick Driver

Harp:
Sarah Morley

Flutes:
Clarissa Melville
Pamela Beard
Myra Bennett
Celia Chambers

Oboes:
Paul Arden Taylor
Derek Hossle
Barry Davies
David Presly

Clarinets:
Tom Whitestone
Malcolm McMillan
Terence Busby

Bassoons:
Michael Cole
Anne Bentley
Lionel Goring

Horns:
Jonathan Wallen
Christopher Tilbury
Gerald Boot
Francis Brown

Trumpets:
Malcolm Woodhouse
David Batstone
John Hammonds
Colin Clague

Trombones:
Colin Gummer
Maxwell Isley
Malcolm Kinch

Tuba:
Andrew Martin

Timpani:
John Chimes

Percussion:
Sean Hooper
Polly Whiteley
Anne Collis

Crew

For the Mixed Bill

Orchestrations and Arranging, Les Rendezvous: Constant Lambert
Decor, Les Rendezvous: William Chappell
Producer, Giselle: Peter Wright
Scenery and Costumes, Giselle: Peter Farmer
Lighting, Giselle: William Bundy

For the Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells

Director: Kenneth MacMillan
Associate Director: Peter Wright
Music Director: Ashley Lawrence
Company Manager and Assistant to the Directors: John Auld
Touring Manager: Christopher Nourse
Press Officer: Sarah Woodcock
Secretary: Maura Caldwell
Company Pianist: Hilary Bell
Rehearsal Pianist: Stephen Lade
Orchestra Manager: Clarissa Melville
Ballet Master: Ronald Plaisted
Ballet Mistress: Brenda Last
Company Teacher and Répétiteur: Hilary Cartwright
Dance Notator: Elizabeth Cunliffe
Stage Manager: Terry Martin
Deputy Stage Manager: Andis Marton
Chief Carpenter: John Hart
Chief Electrician: John Hall
Assistant Electrician: Roy Eley
Property Master: Graham Crew
Wardrobe Supervisor: Lili Sobieralska
Wardrobe Assistants: Jill Clay, Brian Ferguson, Christine Pegg, Sylvia Pitts

For the Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Chairman: David McKenna
Director: Douglas Craig
Administrative Manager: Derek Westlake
Financial Controller: Joseph Karaviotis
House Manager: Kevin Miller
Box Office Manager: Kevin Chapple
Stage Manager: Paul Richardson
Chief Electrician: Neville Currier
Archivists: Raymond Mander, Joe Mitchenson
Promotions Manager: Peter Hampson
Press Representative: Margaret Sedwards

Programme Printed By: Thomas Jenkins Printers Ltd.

Notes

In what is most likely a printing mistake, the exact same page (detailing staff of the theatre and information about the theatre facilities) is printed twice.