Title: Sleeping Beauty
Date: Saturday 17th July 1948
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: Marius Petipa
Additional Choreography: Frederick Ashton, Ninette de Valois
Production: Ninette de Valois and Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1946 production
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

King Florestan XXIV: David Davenport
His Queen: Jean Bedells
Cattalabutte, Master of Ceremonies: Leslie Edwards
Lilac Fairy: Pamela May
Carabosse: Frederick Ashton
Princess Aurora: Margot Fonteyn
Prince Florimund: Michael Somes

Prologue-
The Fairy of the Crystal Fountain: Lorna Mossford
Her Cavalier: Philip Chatfield
The Fairy of the Enchanted Garden: Gillian Lynne
Her Cavalier: John Field
The Fairy of the Woodland Glades: Anne Negus
Her Cavalier: Donald Britton
The Fairy of the Song Birds: Anne Heaton
Her Cavalier: Gilbert Vernon
The Fairy of the Golden Vine: Avril Navarre
Her Cavalier: Kenneth Melville
Lilac Fairy’s Cavalier: Richard Ellis
Maids of Honour: Jill Gregory, Guinevere Perry, Dorothea Zaymes, Nadia Nerina, Joan Grantham, June Leighton, Margaret Sear, Anne Gieves

Act I-
The First Prince: John Hart
The Second Prince: John Field
The Third Prince: Alexis Rassine
The Fourth Prince: Richard Ellis
Princess Aurora’s Friends: Jill Gregory, Pauline Clayden, Dorothea Zaymes, June Leighton, Anne Negus, Anne Heaton, Guinevere Parry, Nadia Nerina

Act II-
The Countess: Jean Bedells
Gallison, the Prince’s tutor: Paul Reymond
Duchesses: Lorna Mossford, Rosemary Lindsay
Dukes: Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards
Marchionesses: Palma Nye, Thekla Russell, Margaret Graham, Christine Du Boulay
Marquesses: Alfred Rodriques, Philip Chatfield, Kenneth Melville, Franklin White

Act III-
Bluebeard and his Wife: Alfred Rodriques, Palma Nye
Goldilocks and her Prince: Lorna Mossford, Henry Legerton
Beauty and the Beast: Christine Du Boulay, Philip Chatfield
Florestan and his Two Sisters: John Field, Gillian Lynne, Anne Negus
Puss-in-Boots and The White Cat: Paul Reymond, Dorothea Zaymes
The Bluebird and Princess Florine: Alexis Rassine, Pauline Clayden
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf: June Leighton, Richard Ellis
The Three Ivans: Alexander Grant, Donald Britton, Ray Powell
Finale: Full Company

Village Maidens, Peasants, Courtiers, Heralds: Anne Gieves, Margaret Sear, Joan Grantham, Rowena Jackson, Fiorella Keane, Wendy Winn, Rosemary Valaire, Thekla Russell, Rosemary Lindsay, Jean Stokes, Kenneth Melville, Alec Martin, Gilbert Vernon, Tony Tarver, Peter Clegg, Philip Chatfield, Henry Legerton
Pages and Maids of Honour: Students of the Sadler’s Wells School of Ballet

Crew

For Sleeping Beauty

Costumes and Scenery: Oliver Messel
Costume Making Supervision: Alec Shanks
Costume Making: Alec Shanks Stage Costumes Ltd., B.J. Simmonds Ltd.
Material Dyeing and Painting: F. Winter, B. Stern
Masks and Special Headdresses Maker: Hugh Skillen
Other Headdresses Maker: Catherine Fry
Decorations and Jewellery: Beatrice Dawson, Vivienne Lernot, Adrienne Evans, I.H.S. Wheeler
Scenery Building: Brunskill & Loveday Ltd.
Scenery Painting, Prologue & Act I: Alick Johnstone
Scenery Painting, Act II & Transformations: Key Studios
Scenery Painting, Act III: 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
Librarian: R. Temple Savage

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