Title: Scènes de ballet/Job/Symphonic Variations
Date: Friday 9th July 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (Scènes de ballet), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Job), César Franck (Symphonic Variations)
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton (Scènes de ballet, Symphonic Variations), Ninette de Valois (Job)
Production: Original 1948 production (Scènes de ballet), 1948 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (Job), Original 1946 production (Symphonic Variations)
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Scènes de ballet

Dancers: Beryl Grey, John Hart, Donald Britton, Alexander Grant, John Field, Philip Chatfield, Lorna Mossford, Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Lindsay, Gerd Larsen, Nadia Nerina, Avril Navarre, Jean Stokes, Pauline Clayden, Jill Gregory, Anne Negus, Anne Heaton, Margaret Sear

Job

Job: David Davenport
His Wife: Jean Bedells
His Three Daughters: Julia Farron, Gerd Larsen, Palma Nye
His Seven Sons: Alexander Grant, Franklin White, Gilbert Vernon, Henry Legerton, Donald Britton, Tony Tarver, Ray Powell
Satan: Robert Helpmann
Baccanale (The Seven Sons): Philip Chatfield, Kenneth Melville, Bryan Ashbridge, John Cranko, Henry Legerton, Robert Lunnon, Leslie Edwards
Baccanale (The Seven Wives): Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Valaire, Rosemary Lindsay, Jean Stokes, Joan Grantham, Pauline Clayden, Lorna Mossford
War, Pestilence, Famine: Donald Britton, Alexander Grant, Ray Powell
The Three Messengers: Kenneth Melville, Michael Somes, John Field
The Three Comforters: Franklin White, Henry Legerton, Paul Raymond
Elihu: Alexis Rassine
The Children of God: Guinevere Parry, Jill Gregory, Veronica Vail, Dorothea Zaymes, Anne Heaton, Nadia Nerina, Thekla Russell, Christine Du Boulay, Rowena Jackson, Avril Navarre, Anne Gieves, Wendy Winn
Sons of the Morning: Annette Page, Jean Cameron-Finney, Vickey Hill, Shirley Rees, Noreen Sopwith, June Konapasek, Wendy Hyde, Maureen Swanson
Job’s Spiritual Self: Alfred Rodriques

Symphonic Variations

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

Solo Pianist: Angus Morrison

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Scenery and Costumes, Scénes de ballet: André Beaurepaire
Scenery and Costumes, Job: John Piper
Décor and Costumes, Symphonic Variations: Sophie Fedorovitch

Scenery Building, Scènes de ballet, Job: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting, Scènes de ballet, Job: Clement Glock
Costume Execution, Scènes de ballet, Job, Symphonic Variations: Olivia Cranmer
Fabric Dying and Painting, Scènes de ballet, Job: Bettina Pacey, Barbara Ternouth
Headdress Making, Scènes de ballet, Job: Josef Roth, Anthony Martell
Properties, Job: Jack Lovell, Vic Drummond
Headdress Making, Symphonic Variations: Hugh Skillen
Scenery Painting, Symphonic Variations: Edward Delaney

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Jean Bedells
Maître de ballet: Harijs Plucis
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

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

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