Title: Les Sylphides/Caprice Viennois/The Marchaund’s Tale/Dances of Galanta
Date: Friday 4th April 1947, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Metropolitan Ballet
Location: Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, England
Composer: Frederic Chopin (Les Sylphides), Fritz Kreisler (Caprice Viennois), John Bath (The Marchaund’s Tale), Zoltán Kodály (Dances of Galanta)
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides), Letty Littlewood (Caprice Viennois, The Marchaund’s Tale), Victor Gsovsky (Dances of Galanta)
Production: Metropolitan Ballet revival (Les Sylphides), Original Metropolitan Ballet productions (Caprice Viennois, The Marchaund’s Tale, Dances of Galanta)
Conductor: Jack Dearlove
Collection Folder: Scrapbook #1

Cast

Les Sylphides

Nocturne: Colette Marchand, Edith Ecker, Daphne Kirner, Henry Danton
Valse: Daphne Kirner
Mazurka: Colette Marchand
Mazurka: Henry Danton
Prelude: Edith Ecker
Valse: Colette Marchand, Henry Danton
Valse Finale: Colette Marchand, Edith Ecker, Daphne Kirner, Henry Danton, Corps de Ballet

Caprice Viennois

Anatol: Raymond Farrell
Maid: Janine St Clare
The Flirt: Daphne Kirner
Her Admirer: Peter Wright
The Wallflower: Celina de Vries
The Sisters: Anna Campbell, Ursula Hewlett
La Chinoise: Peggy Ayers
The Dancer: Jeanne Artois

The Marchaund’s Tale

The Merchant: Raymond Farrell
The Troubadour: Peter Wright
January: Raymond Farrell
May: Ursula Hewlett
Damien: Igor Barczinski
Pluto: David Dulak
Persephone: Cynthia Maugham
May’s Companion: Anna Campbell
Knights and Ladies: Alan Elledge, Johann Florees, Josef Kudla, Edward Elders, Cynthia Allegro, Peggy Ayers, Janine St Clare, Antoinette Swift, Doria Vennard, Celina de Vries

Dances of Galanta

Dancers: Colette Marchand, Sonia Arova, Anita Phillips, Igor Barczinski, Serge Perrault, Raymond Farrell, Cynthia Allegro, Peggy Ayers, Anna Campbell, Janine St Clare, Ursula Hewlett, Daphne Kirner, Cynthia Maugham, Antoinette Swift, Doria Vennard, Celina de Vries, Gene Masters, Jean Gostling, Edward Elders, Peter Wright, John Bleasdale, Allan Elledge

Notes

Part of a scrapbook of ballet programmes from the mid-20th century.

Colette Marchand’s name varies between Colette and Collette throughout the cast listings.