Sleeping Beauty, The Sadler’s Wells Ballet- Wednesday 20th February 1946

Title: The Sleeping Beauty
Date: Wednesday 20th February 1946, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: Marius Petipa
Additional Choreography: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton
Production: Ninette de Valois and Nicholas Sergeyev’s, premiere of the production
Conductor: Constant Lambert
Collection Folder: Folder 22

Cast

King Florestan XXIV: David Davenport
His Queen: Julia Farron
Cattalabutte, Master of Ceremonies: Leslie Edwards
Lilac Fairy: Beryl Grey
Carabosse: Robert Helpmann
Princess Aurora: Margot Fonteyn
Prince Florimund: Robert Helpmann

Prologue-
Fairy of the Crystal Fountain: Moira Shearer
Her Cavalier: Alexis Rassine
Fairy of the Enchanted Garden: Gillian Lynne
Her Cavalier: Henry Danton
Fairy of the Woodland Glades: Anne Negus
Her Cavalier: Harold Turner
Fairy of the Song Birds: Pauline Clayden
Her Cavalier: Richard Ellis
Fairy of the Golden Vine: Margaret Dale
Her Cavalier: Franklin White
Lilac Fairy’s Cavalier: Michael Somes
Maids of Honour: Joan Sheldon, Jill Gregory, Guinevere Parry, Elizabeth Kennedy, Margaret Roseby, Avril Navarre, Mavis Ray, Oenone Talbot

Act I-
First Prince: Harold Turner
Second Prince: Anthony Burke
Third Prince: Henry Danton
Fourth Prince: Richard Ellis
Princess Aurora’s Friends: Margaret Dale, Anne Negus, Avril Navarre, Margaret Roseby, Pauline Clayden, Joan Sheldon, Jill Gregory, Oenone Talbot
Pages: Guinevere Parry, Elizabeth Kennedy, June Leighton, Veronica Vail

Act II-
Countess: Jean Bedells
Gallison, The Prince’s Tutor: Paul Reymond
Duchesses: Julia Farron, Gerd Larsen
Dukes: Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards
Marchionesses: Palma Nye, Paula Dunning, Lorna Mossford, Christine Du Boulay
Marquesses: Henry Danton, Anthony Burke, Franklin White, Stanley Hall

Act III-
Bluebead and His Wife: Norman Thompson, Margaret Roseby
Goldilocks and Her Prince: Paula Dunning, Paul Reymond
Beauty and the Beast: Christine Du Boulay, Toni Repetto
Florestan and His Two Sisters: Michael Somes, Moira Shearer, Gerd Larsen
Puss-in-Boots and The White Cat: Stanley Holden, Margaret Dale
Bluebird and Princess Florine: Alexis Rassine, Pamela May
Red Riding Hood and The Wolf: June Leighton, Richard Ellis
The Three Ivans: Harold Turner, Gordon Hamilton, Franklin White
Finale: Full Company

Village Maidens, Peasants, Courtiers, Heralds: Rosemary Lindsay, Anne Gieves, Margaret Sear, Mavis Spence, Patricia Thorburn, Margaret Rawlinson, Thekla Russell, Pauline Wadsworth, June Day, Pamela Chimes, Sylvia Ashmole, Clementina Stuart, Kenneth Melville, Brian Shaw, Dennis Carey
Pages and Maids of Honour: Students of the Sadler’s Wells School of Ballet