Title: Swan Lake
Date: Saturday 24th April 1948, Matinee
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov
Production: Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1943 staging for the Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Prince Siegfried: John Hart
The Princess Mother: Jean Bedells
Wolfgang, The Prince’s Tutor: Ray Powell
Benno, The Prince’s Friend: Richard Ellis
Odette/Odile: Moira Shearer
Von Rothbart: David Davenport

Act I-
Pas de trois: Harold Turner, Margaret Dale, Anne Negus
Peasant Girl: Jill Gregory
Peasant Boys and Huntsmen: Paul Reymond, Alexander Grant, Donald Britton, Henry Legerton, Gilbert Vernon, Franklin White, Philip Chatfield, Alec Martin, John Cranko, Bryan Ashbridge, Kenneth Melville, Alfred Rodrique
Peasant Girls: Jill Gregory, Guinevere Parry, Rowena Jackson, Veronica Vail, Elizabeth Kennedy, Thekla Russell, Wendy Winn, Margaret Sear, Fiorella Keane, Anne Gieves, Anne Heaton, Dorothea Zaymes
Court Ladies: Rosemary Valaire, Christine Du Boulay, Mary Drage, Joan Cadzow

Act II-
Cygnets: Violetta Elvin, Pauline Clayden, Avril Navarre, Nadia Nerina
Four Swans: Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Lindsay, Gerd Larsen, Lorna Mossford
Swans: Palma Nye, Anne Heaton, Veronica Vail, Thekla Russell, Guinevere Parry, Anne Gieves, Elizabeth Kennedy, Julia Farron, Wendy Hyde, Joan Cadzow, Wendy Winn, Rosemary Valaire, Dorothea Zaymes, Fiorella Keane, Margaret Sear, Rowena Jackson, Jill Gregory, Christine Du Boulay

Act III-
Fiancées: Wendy Winn, Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Rowena Jackson, Gerd Larsen, Rosemary Valaire
Spanish Dance: Michael Somes, Richard Ellis, Palma Nye, Gillian Lynne
Czardas: Violetta Elvin, Alexander Grant, Dorothea Zaymes, Jill Gregory, Margaret Sear, Fiorella Keane, Ray Powell, Donald Britton, Henry Legerton, Paul Reymond
Mazurka: Anne Heaton, Nadia Nerina, Christine Du Boulay, Thekla Russell, Leslie Edwards, John Field, Kenneth Melville, Franklin White
Court Ladies: Vera Winternitz, Joan Cadzow, Mary Drage, Rowena Jackson
Pages: Anne Gieves, Veronica Vail, Wendy Hyde, Penelope Asserson, Shirley Howlett

Act IV-
Two Swans: Gerd Larsen, Lorna Mossford
Black Cygnets: Margaret Dale, Pauline Clayden, Violetta Elvin, Nadia Nerina, Avril Navarre, Anne Negus
Swans: Joan Cadzow, Thekla Russell, Julia Farron, Elizabeth Kennedy, Margaret Sear, Wendy Hyde, Palma Nye, Rosemary Valaire, Dorothea Zaymes, Christine Du Boulay, Wendy Winn, Jill Gregory, Guinevere Parry, Rowena Jackson, Anne Heaton, Fiorella Keane, Anne Gieves, Veronica Vail

Crew

For Swan Lake

Stager: Nicholas Sergeyev
Scenery and Costume Design: Leslie Hurry
Scenery Building: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting: Jack Cross
Property Making: Harry Doverdale, Jack Lovell
Costumes Executed By: Alec Shanks
Headdresses Executed By: Hugh Skillen

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Jean Bedells
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

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

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