Title: Swan Lake
Date: Tuesday 6th July 1948, Evening
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 production for the Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Odette/Odile: Margot Fonteyn
Prince Siegfried: Michael Somes
The Princess-Mother: Jean Bedells
Von Rothbart: David Davenport
Wolfgang, The Prince’s Tutor: Ray Powell
Benno, The Prince’s Friend: Richard Ellis

Act I-
Pas de Trois: Alexis Rassine, Violetta Elvin, Pauline Clayden
A Peasant Girl: Guinevere Parry
Huntsmen and Peasant Boys: John Cranko, Robert Lunnon, Kenneth Melville, Alfred Rodriques, Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Paul Reymond, Alec Martin, Donald Britton, Henry Legerton, Gilbert Vernon, Franklin White
Peasant Girls: Jill Gregory, Guinevere Parry, Thekla Russell, Veronica Vail, Joan Grantham, Dorothea Zaymes, Wendy Winn, Margaret Sear, Fiorella Keane, Anne Gieves, Jean Stokes, Anne Heaton
Court Ladies: Rosemary Valaire, Christine Du Boulay, Rowena Jackson, Joan Cadzow

Act II-
Cygnets: Jill Gregory, Anne Negus, 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, Joan Grantham, Wendy Hyde, Wendy Winn, Fiorella Keane, Rosemary Valaire, Jean Stokes, Dorothea Zaymes, Joan Cadzow, Christine Du Boulay, Jean Leighton, Rowena Jackson

Act III-
Fiancées: Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Gillian Lynne, Gerd Larsen, Joan Grantham, Jean Stokes
Spanish Dance: Richard Ellis, John Hart, Julia Farron, Palma Nye
Czardas: Violetta Elvin, Franklin White, June Leighton, 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, Philip Chatfield
Court Ladies: Wendy Winn, Joan Cadzow, Rowena Jackson, Rosemary Valaire
Pages: Anne Gieves, Wendy Hyde, Dorothea Zaymes, Shirley Howlett, Veronica Vail

Act IV-
Two Swans: Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Lindsay
Black Cygnets: Jill Gregory, Pauline Clayden, Violetta Elvin, Nadia Nerina, Avril Navarre, Anne Negus
Swans: Jean Stokes, Thekla Russell, Joan Cadzow, Elizabeth Kennedy, Wendy Hyde, Palma Nye, Rosemary Valaire, Dorothea Zaymes, Christine Du Boulay, Wendy Winn, Anne Gieves, Anne Heaton, Joan Grantham, Fiorella Keane, Guinevere Parry, Veronica Vail, June Leighton, Rowena Jackson

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
Maître de ballet: Harijs Plucis
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

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

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