Title: Les Sylphides/Miracle in the Gorbals/Don Juan
Date: Wednesday 15th December 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Frederic Chopin (Les Sylphides), Arthur Bliss (Miracle in the Gorbals), Richard Strauss (Don Juan)
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides), Robert Helpmann (Miracle in the Gorbals), Frederick Ashton (Don Juan)
Production: 1940 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (Les Sylphides), Original 1944 production (Miracle in the Gorbals), Original 1948 production (Don Juan)
Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Les Sylphides

Nocturne: Beryl Grey, Alexis Rassine, Gerd Larsen, Anne Negus, Margaret Dale, Jill Gregory, Rowena Jackson, Avril Navarre, Fiorella Keane, Anne Gieves, Christine Du Boulay, Dorothea Zaymes, Wendy Winn, Rosemary Valaire, Nadia Nerina, Anne Heaton, Gillian Lynne, Lorna Mossford, Thekla Russell, Pauline Wadsworth
Valse: Anne Negus
Mazurka: Beryl Grey
Mazurka: Alexis Rassine
Prelude: Gerd Larsen
Pas de deux: Beryl Grey, Alexis Rassine
Finale: Ensemble

Miracle in the Gorbals

The Suicide: Pauline Clayden
The Lovers: Gillian Lynne, Alexis Rassine
A Beggar: Leslie Edwards
A Street Boy: Paul Reymond
The Official: John Hart
The Prostitute: Julia Farron
The Stranger: Robert Helpmann
Ensemble: Palma Nye, Gerd Larsen, Christine Du Boulay, Anne Negus, Rosemary Lindsay, Rowena Jackson, Jill Gregory, Avril Navarre, Jean Stokes, Margaret Sear, Thekla Russell, Anne Gieves, Franklin White, Henry Legerton, Kenneth Melville, Gilbert Vernon, Alfred Rodrique, John Cranko, Terence Paul, Nadia Nerina, Dorothea Zaymes, Sheila Nelson

Don Juan

Don Juan: Robert Helpmann
La Morte Amoureuse: Violetta Elvin
Her Attendants: Alfred Rodrique, Bryan Ashbridge
A Young Wife: Anne Heaton
Her Husband: Richard Ellis
Amours: Lorna Mossford, Gerd Larsen, Julia Farron, Rosemary Lindsay, Nadia Nerina, Gillian Lynne
Rivals: Kenneth MacMillan, Kenneth Melville, Philip Chatfield
Carnaval: Thekla Russell, Wendy Winn, Dorothea Zaymes, Sheila Nelson, Rowena Jackson, Fiorella Keane, Anne Gieves, Anne Negus, Rosemary Valaire, Christine Du Boulay, Margaret Sear, Jill Gregory, Gilbert Vernon, Franklin White, Donald Britton, Henry Legerton, Paul Reymond, Charles Lisner

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Orchestrator, Les Sylphides: Gordon Jacob
Decor, Les Sylphides: Designs after Alexandre Benois
Costume Making, Les Sylphides, Don Juan: Olivia Cranmer
Headdress Making, Les Sylphides: Josef Roth
Scenery Building, Les Sylphides, Don Juan: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting, Les Sylphides: Jack Cross, Clement Glock

Costumes and Scenery, Miracle in the Gorbals, Don Juan: Edward Burra
Costume Execution, Miracle in the Gorbals: Grace Kelly
Scenery Painting, Miracle in the Gorbals: Alick Johnstone

Headdress Making, Don Juan: Josef Roth, Anthony Martell
Scenery Painting, Don Juan: Clement Glock
Property Making, Don Juan: Jack Lovell, Vic Drummond

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Mary Skeaping
Maître de ballet: Harijs Plucis
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Librarian: R. Temple Savage

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Box Office Manager: A.M. Wolstenholme, D. Wilson
Production Manager: Daphne Cawson
Stage Director: Henry Robinson
Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Assistant Stage Manager: Bruce Corder
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Property Master: Jack Lovell

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

Notes

The program was originally supposed to be Les Sylphides, Miracle in the Gorbals and Symphonic Variations (with Moira Shearer, Michael Somes, Pamela May, Alexander Grant, Rosemary Lindsay, John Hart). A programme insert details that the program was changed due to the indisposition of Moira Shearer.