Title: Les Sylphides/Symphonic Variations/La Boutique Fantasque
Date: Monday 3rd May 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (Les Sylphides), César Franck (Symphonic Variations), Gioachino Rossini (La Boutique Fantasque)
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides), Frederick Ashton (Symphonic Variations), Léonide Massine (La Boutique Fantasque)
Production: 1940 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (Les Sylphides), Original 1946 production (Symphonic Variations), 1947 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (La Boutique Fantasque)
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Les Sylphides

Nocturne: Beryl Grey, John Field, Gerd Larsen, Gillian Lynne, Margaret Dale, Jill Gregory, Rowena Jackson, Guinevere Parry, Avril Navarre, Elizabeth Kennedy, Fiorella Keane, Anne Gieves, Christine Du Boulay, Joan Grantham, Margaret Sear, Thekla Russell, Veronica Vail, Jean Stokes, Wendy Winn, Rosemary Valaire
Valse: Gillian Lynne
Mazurka: Beryl Grey
Mazurka: John Field
Prelude: Gerd Larsen
Pas de deux: Beryl Grey, John Field
Finale: Ensemble

Symphonic Variations

Dancers: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Pamela May, Alexander Grant, Moira Shearer, John Hart

Solo Pianist: Angus Morrison

La Boutique Fantasque

The Shopkeeper: John Hart
His Assistant: Henry Legerton
A Thief: Kenneth Melville
An English Old Maid: Margaret Graham
Her Friend: Joan Cadzow
An American: Leslie Edwards
His Wife: Jean Bedells
Their Son: Tony Tarver
Their Daughter: Margaret Dale
A Russian Merchant: David Davenport
His Wife: Palma Nye
Their Son: Rands Trevor
Their Four Daughters: Margaret Sear, Anne Negus, Guinevere Parry, Veronica Vail
Two Assistants: Alec Martin, Alfred Rodrique

Dolls-
Two Dolls: Jill Gregory, Elizabeth Kennedy
Tarantella Dancers: Gerd Larsen, Alexander Grant
The Queen of Clubs: Beryl Grey
The Queen of Diamonds: Pamela May
The King of Spades: Philip Chatfield
The King of Hearts: Richard Ellis
The Snob: Alexis Rassine
The Melon Hawker: Franklin White
A Cossack Girl: Violetta Elvin
A Cossack Chief: Michael Somes
Five Cossacks: John Cranko, Bryan Ashbridge, Ray Powell, Robert Lunnon, John Field
Dancing Poodles: Pauline Clayden, Donald Britton
Can-Can Dancers: Moira Shearer, Léonide Massine
Their Twelve Friends: Lorna Mossford, Rosemary Lindsay, Anne Gieves, Fiorella Keane, Christine Du Boulay, Dorothea Zaymes, Avril Navarre, Joan Grantham, Gillian Lynne, Jean Stokes, Rowena Jackson, Rosemary Valaire

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Orchestrations, Les Sylphides: Gordon Jacob
Decor, Les Sylphides: After designs by Alexandre Benois
Scenery Painting, Les Sylphides: Jack Cross

Decor and Costumes, Symphonic Variations: Sophie Fedorovitch
Costume Execution, Symphonic Variations: Olivia Cranmer
Headdress Execution, Symphonic Variations: Hugh Skillen
Scenery Painting, Symphonic Variations: Edward Delaney

Orchestrations, La Boutique Fantasque: Ottorino Respighi
Curtain, Scenery and Costumes, La Boutique Fantasque: André Derain

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Jean Bedells
Accompanists: Edna Downing, Ena Child
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy

For the Royal Opera House

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

Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Conductors: Geoffrey Corbett, Hugo Rignold

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

Notes

Additional Material: A Flyer for the Thursday 20th May 1948 Gala Performance by the Sadler’s Wells Ballet, which benefitted their Benevolent Fund. The programme was Job, Symphonic Variations and Hamlet.