Title: Swan Lake Act II/Scènes de ballet/Mam’zelle Angot
Date: Monday 27th March 1950, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Swan Lake Act II), Igor Stravinsky (Scènes de ballet), Charles Lecocq (Mam’zelle Angot)
Choreographer: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (Swan Lake Act II), Frederick Ashton (Scènes de ballet), Léonide Massine (Mam’zelle Angot)
Production: Taken from Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1943 staging for the Sadler’s Wells Ballet (Swan Lake Act II), Original 1948 production (Scènes de ballet), 1947 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (Mam’zelle Angot)
Conductor: John Hollingsworth
Collection Folder: Scrapbook #1

Cast

Swan Lake Act II

Odette: Violetta Elvin
Prince Siegfried: John Field
Benno: Richard Ellis
Cygnets: Pauline Clayden, Dorothea Zaymes, Anne Negus, Margaret Dale
Four Swans: Julia Farron, Margaret Dale, Rosemary Lindsay, Gerd Larsen
Swans: Margaret Sear, Anne Heaton, June Laverick, Rosemary Valaire, Wendy Winn, Dorothea Zaymes, Greta Hamby, Shirley Bishop, Rowena Jackson, Brenda Taylor, April Olrich, Yvonne Barnes, Fiorella Keane, Christine Du Boulay, Thekla Russell, Valerie Taylor
Huntsmen: Bryan Ashbridge, Kenneth Melville, Philip Chatfield, John Cranko, Ronald Plaisted, Kenneth MacMillan

Scènes de ballet

Dancers: Avril Navarre, John Hart, Alexander Grant, Brian Shaw, Gilbert Vernon, Michael Boulton, Pauline Clayden, Margaret Dale, Rowena Jackson, Gerd Larsen, Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Lindsay, Anne Negus, Lorna Mossford, Margaret Sear, Wendy Winn, Dorothea Zaymes, Anne Heaton

Mam’zelle Angot

Mam’zelle Angot: Nadia Nerina
Barber: Alexander Grant
Caricaturist: John Field
Aristocrat: Gerd Larsen
Government Official: John Hart
Chief of Police: Franklin White
Two Gendarmes: Paul Reymond, Ray Powell
Butcher: Leslie Edwards
Tailor: Henry Legerton
Bootmaker: John Cranko
Fishwife: Margaret Dale
Florist: Jill Gregory
Seller of Fruit: Anne Negus
Seller of Vegetables: Dorothea Zaymes
Three Ladies: Pauline Wadsworth, Palma Nye, Thekla Russell
Two Children: Sheila Nelson, Annette Page
Officer: Richard Ellis
Soldiers: Ronald Plaisted, Kenneth Melville, Philip Chatfield, Alfred Rodrigues, Bryan Ashbridge, Kenneth MacMillan
Guests: Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Christine Du Boulay, Rowena Jackson, Rosemary Valaire
Pirates: Leslie Edwards, Jill Gregory
Savages: Henry Legerton, Pauline Clayden
Minstrels: Gilbert Vernon, Anne Negus
Officer and his Lady: Richard Ellis, Palma Nye
Incroyables: Ray Powell, John Cranko
Merveilleuses: Christine Du Boulay, Thekla Russell
Grisettes: Wendy Winn, Dorothea Zaymes, Greta Hamby, Pauline Wadsworth, Fiorella Keane, Margaret Sear
Café Proprietor: Franklin White
Urchins, Market Women, Customers, Musicians, Waiters, Soldiers, etc.: Artists of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Scenery and Costumes, Swan Lake Act II: Leslie Hurry
Scenery and Costumes, Scènes de ballet: André Beaurepaire
Scenery Painting, Scènes de ballet: Clement Glock
Scenery Building, Scènes de ballet and Mam’zelle Angot: Edward Waldron
Costume Execution, Scènes de ballet and Mam’zelle Angot: Olivia Cranmer
Fabric Dying and Painting, Scènes de ballet: Barbara Ternouth, Bettina Pacey
Headdresses, Scènes de ballet and Mam’zelle Angot: Josef Roth, Anthony Martell
Orchestrations, Mam’zelle Angot: Gordon Jacob
Decor and Costumes, Mam’zelle Angot: André Derain
Scenery Painting, Mam’zelle Angot: Jack Cross
Fabric Dying, Mam’zelle Angot: Bettina Pacey, Barbara Ternouth, Audrey Davies
Prop Making, Mam’zelle Angot: Jack Lovell, Vic Drummond

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Musical Director: Robert Irving
Artistic Direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Mary Skeaping
Maître de ballet: Harijs Plucis
Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Assistant Stage Manager: Bruce Corder
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Box Office Manager: Derek Wilson
Stage Director: Henry Robinson
Production Manager: Daphne Cawson
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Librarian: R. Temple Savage
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Property Master: Jack Lovell

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