Title: Sylvia
Date: Wednesday 24th September 1952, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Léo Delibes
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Production: Frederick Ashton’s 1952 production
Conductor: Robert Irving
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Sylvia: Margot Fonteyn
Aminta: Michael Somes
Orion: John Hart
Eros: Alexander Grant

Act I-
Sylvans: Ray Powell, Peter Clegg, Antony Manning, Henry Legerton, Franklin White, Douglas Steuart
Naiads: Dorothea Zaymes, Angela Walton, April Olrich
Dryads: Gerd Larsen, Avril Navarre, Anne Heaton
Cortège Rustique: Diane Forhan, Catherine Boulton, Anna Carne, Fiorella Keane, June Lesley, Deirdre Dixon, Yvonne English, Shirley Bateman, Bryan Ashbridge, Desmond Doyle, Michael Boulton, Ronald Hynd, Gary Burne, Henry Naughton, Leslie Edwards, Leon Arnold

Act II-
Slaves: Brian Shaw, Peter Clegg
Orion’s Concubines: Dorothea Zaymes, Shirley Bateman

Act III-
Diana: Julia Farron
Trumpeters: Antony Manning, Donald Kilgour, Colin Worth, Henry Naughton
Goats: Pauline Clayden, Brian Shaw
Apollo: Gilbert Vernon

Muses
The Dance: Svetlana Beriosova
Tragedy, Comedy: Dorothea Zaymes, Margaret Dale
History, Epic Poetry: Gerd Larsen, Catherine Boulton
Lyric Poetry, Erotic Poetry: Meriel Evans, Deidre Dixon
Sublime Hymns, Astronomy: Avril Navarre, Angela Walton

Ceres: Anne Heaton
Jaseion: Philip Chatfield
Persephone: April Olrich
Pluto: Ray Powell

Spring Attendants: Yvonne English, Cynthia Blowers, Anna Carne, Fiorella Keane, Bryan Ashbridge, Ronald Hynd, Arnott Mader, Leslie Edwards
Summer Attendants: Diane Forham, Joan Benesh, June Lesley, Shirley Bateman, Henry Legerton, Douglas Steuart, Gary Burne, Franklin White
Sylvia’s Attendant Nymphs: Mary Drage, Greta Hamby, Valerie Taylor, Anya Linden, Rowena Jackson, Brenda Taylor, Wendy Winn, Rosemary Valaire
Diana’s Attendant Nymphs: Joan King, Joan Weston, Diana Westerman, Louise Carley

Crew

For Sylvia

Scenery and Costumes: Robin and Christopher Ironside
Lighting: John Sullivan
Costume Executor: Olivia Cranmer
Mask and Headdress Executor: Jean Perceval
Fabrice Dyeing and Painting, Barbara Ternouth, Beatrice Bendelow
Scenery Building: Ted Waldron
Scenery Painting: Clement Glock

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Associate Director: Frederick Ashton
Musical Director: Robert Irving
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Stage Manager: Michael Manuel
Professor of Dancing and Répétiteur: Harijs Plucis
Ballet Master: Alfred Rodriques
Ballet Mistress: Jill Gregory
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
Deputy General Administrator: Steuart Wilson
House Manager: Nevill Coppel
Box Office Manager: Derek Wilson
Stage Director: Louis Yudkin
Production Manager: John Sullivan
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Orchestra Leader: Manus O’Donnell
Librarian: R. Temple Savage
Chief Machinist: Horace Fox
Chief Electrician: William Bundy
Property Master: Jack Lovell
Resident House Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney

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