Spartacus, The Bolshoi Ballet- Saturday 13th July 1974

Title: Spartacus
Date: Saturday 13th July 1974, Matinee
Type: Ballet
Company: Bolshoi Ballet
Location: London Coliseum, England
Composer: Aram Khachaturian
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
Production: Revival of Yuri Grigorovich’s 1968 production
Conductor: Alexander Kopylov
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Cast

Spartacus: Vladimir Vasiliev
Crassus: Boris Akimov
Phrygia: Nina Sorokina
Aegina: Nina Timofeyeva
Gladiator: Shamil Yagudin
Mimes: Tatiana Bessmertnova, Tatiana Gavrilova, Ida Vasilieva, Elena Kholina, Elena Matveyeva, Tatiana Cherkasskaya, Valeri Antonov, Boris Baranovsky, Vasili Vorochobko, Leonid Zdorovov
Herdsmen: Anatali Danilichov, Vladimir Koshelev, Vladimir Nikitin, Yuri Vetrov, Semyon Kaufman, Yuri Papko, Anatoli Simachev
Herdswomen: Elena Bunina, Irina Vozianova, Tatiana Popko, Lubov Serova, Lilia Shuvalova
Courtesans: Agnessa Balieva, Alla Boguslavskaya, Larissa Dmitrieva, Tatiana Gavrilova, Larissa Skylanskaya, Tatiana Stepanova, Elena Kholina

Orchestra

First Violins:
John Georgiadis (Leader)
Diana Cummings
Helen Brown
Ben Carpenter
George Edwards
Chumleigh Hind
Ronald Lockwood
Ellen Martin
Alla Sharova
Brian Underwood
Daphne Wakeham
Yvonne Wooldrige

Second Violins:
Brenda Cullity
Mary Leaf
Beryl Auty
Gillian Bailey
Julie Gelson
Bridget Hirst
Keith Lewis
Garth Morton
Alan Pook
Rupert Scott

Violas:
Luciano Jorio
Mary Samuel
Pauline Mack
John Denman
Myrna Edwards
Graham Griffiths
William Jones
Eyrl Perkins
Ruth Treloar

Cello:
Geoffrey Thomas
Melvin Gale
Myra Chahin
Sheila Grogan
Christine Macrae
Eileen McCarthy

Basses:
Emanuel Shulman
Geoffrey Downs
Joseph Kirby
Gareth Wood

Flutes:
Elmer Cole
Simon Hunt

Piccolo:
Veronica Hatten

Oboes:
John Clementson
Joan Whiting

Cor anglais:
Geoffrey Brown
Michael Jeans

Clarinets:
Wilfred Goddard
Patrick Saunders

Bass clarinet:
Alfred Wallbank

Bassoons:
Brian Wightman
Brian Sewell

Horns:
James Diack
Dennis Scard
Charles Bloomfield
George Woodcock

Trumpets:
Clifford Haines
Colin Clague
Michael Hinton
Stephen Hetherington

Trombones:
James Ketchen
Anthony Moore

Bass Trombone:
Leslie Lake

Tuba:
John Smith

Timpani:
Robert Howes

Percussion:
Stephen Henderson
Peter Greenham
Ronald McCrea

Harps:
David Dunn
Fiona Hibbert

Piano/Celeste:
John Parry

Crew

For Spartacus

Designer: Simon Virsaladze

For the Bolshoi Ballet

Director and Administrator: Kyril Malchanov
Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
Principal Ballet Mistress: Galina Ulanova
Ballet Director: Piotr Khomutov
Chief Administrator: Vladimir Levko
Stage Director: Victor Zavitayev
Chief Electrician and Lighting Designer: Boris Lelukhin
Stage Managers: Alexander Sokolov, Alexander Tsarman, Yuri Ignatov
Concert Masters: Vladimir Kudriavstev, Lev Kapralov
Concert Mistress: Elena Barsanova
Ballet Master: Nikolai Simachev
Ballet Mistress: Lydia Khliustova

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