Title: Les Sylphides/Fancy Free/Black Swan Pas de deux/Bluebeard
Date: Tuesday 9th July 1946, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Ballet Theatre
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Frederic Chopin (Les Sylphides), Leonard Bernstein (Fancy Free), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Black Swan Pas de deux), Jacques Offenbach (Bluebeard)
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides, Bluebeard), Jerome Robbins (Fancy Free), Anton Dolin after Marius Petipa (Black Swan Pas de deux)
Production: 1940 Ballet Theatre production (Les Sylphides), Original 1944 production (Fancy Free), Anton Dolin’s 1944 staging for Ballet Theatre (Black Swan Pas de deux), Original 1941 production (Bluebeard)
Conductor: Ben Steinberg (Les Sylphides, Bluebeard), Max Goberman (Fancy Free, Black Swan Pas de deux)
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Cast

Les Sylphides

Nocturne: Alicia Alonso, Nora Kaye, Barbara Fallis, John Kriza
Waltz: Barbara Fallis, Ensemble
Mazurka: John Kriza
Prelude: Alicia Alonso
Mazurka: Nora Kaye
Pas de deux: Alicia Alonso, John Kriza
Waltz: Alicia Alonso, Nora Kaye, Barbara Fallis, John Kriza, Ensemble

Ensemble: Cynthia Riseley, Norma Vaslavina, Diana Adams, Anna Cheselka, Barbara Cole, Jean Dovell, Shirley Eckl, Shellie Farrell, Melissa Hayden, Mary Heater, Ruth Ann Koesun, Paula Lloyd, Doreen Oswald, Frances Rainer, Enrica Soma, Barbara Steele

Fancy Free

Bartender: Donald Saddler
Sailors: Jerome Robbins, Michael Kidd, John Kriza
Passersby: Muriel Bentley, Paula Lloyd, Shirley Eckl

Black Swan Pas de deux

Dancers: Nora Kaye, André Eglevsky

Bluebeard

Baron Bluebeard: Dmitri Romanoff
Boulotte, 6th wife of Bluebeard: Shirley Eckl
King Bobiche: Antony Tudor
Queen Clementine: Lucia Chase
Floretta, Princess Hermilla, their Daughter: Barbara Fallis
Prince Sapphire: Kenneth Davis
Alchemist Popoloni: Stanley Herbertt
Count Oscar: Richard Beard
Angelo, a page: Melissa Hayden

Heloise, a wife of Bluebeard: Diana Adams
Eleanor, a wife of Bluebeard: Muriel Bentley
Isuare, a wife of Bluebeard: Paula Lloyd
Rosalinde, a wife of Bluebeard: Cynthia Riseley
Blanche, a wife of Bluebeard: Doreen Oswald

Alvarez, a lover of the Queen: Robert De Voye
Armando, a lover of the Queen: Donald Saddler
Alfonso, a lover of the Queen: Fernando Alonso
Orlando, a lover of the Queen: Fernand Nault

Ladies of the Court: Anna Cheselka, Barbara Cole, Jean Dovell, Frances Rainer, Enrica Soma, Norma Vaslavina
Gentlemen of the Court: Eric Braun, Erik Kristen, Zachary Solov, John Taras
Pages: Shellie Farrell, Mary Heater, Ruth Ann Koesun, Barbara Steele
Soldiers of the King: Messieurs Collins, Man, Daiker, Alexander
Peasants and Shepherds: Diana Adams, Anna Cheselka, Barbara Cole, Jean Dovell, Shellie Farrell, Mary Heater, Paula Lloyd, Doreen Oswald, Rainer, Cynthia Riseley, Enrica Soma, Barbara Steele, Eric Braun, Erik Kristen, Zachary Solov, John Taras

Crew

For the Mixed Bill

Orchestrator, Les Sylphides: Benjamin Britten
Decor, Les Sylphides: Eugene Dunkel after Jean Corot
Scenery Design, Fancy Free: Oliver Smith
Costume Design, Fancy Free: Kermit Love
Lighting, Fancy Free: Peter Lawrence
Costumes, Black Swan Pas de deux: Karinska
Arranger, Bluebeard: Antal Dorati
Scenery and Costume Design, Bluebeard: Marcel Vertes

For the Ballet Theatre

Administrative Directors: Lucia Chase, Oliver Smith
Executive Manager: Peter Lawrence
Artistic Administrator: Antony Tudor
Musical Director: Max Goberman
Company Manager: Allan Attwater
Stage Manager: Herman Kantor
Assistant Stage Manager: Joseph Bastien
Carpenter: Simon Wasserman
Wardrobe Supervisor: Elena Balieff
Accompanist: Marcel Hansotte
Press Representative: Charles Payne

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Stage Director: Henry Robinson
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Engineer: Sydney Cheney
Property Master: Jack Lovell
Box Office Manager: A.M. Wolstenholme

Programme Printed By: Finden Brown & Co. Ltd., London