Title: The Shadow/Les Sylphides/Veneziana
Date: Monday 13th April 1953, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Erno von Dohnányi (The Shadow), Frederic Chopin (Les Sylphides), Gaetano Donizetti (Veneziana)
Choreographer: John Cranko (The Shadow), Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides), Andrée Howard (Veneziana)
Production: Original 1953 production (The Shadow), 1940 Sadler’s Wells Ballet production (Les Sylphides), Original 1953 production (Veneziana)
Conductor: Robert Irving
Collection Folder: Scrapbook #1

Cast

The Shadow

A Youth: Philip Chatfield
His Romantic Love: Svetlana Beriosova
The Shadow: Bryan Ashbridge
A Young Girl: Rosemary Linsday
Her Lovers: Brian Shaw, Desmond Doyle, Ronald Hynd
Her Friends: Wendy Winn, Rosemary Valaire, Anne Stringer, Brenda Taylor, Cynthia Blowers, Shirley Bateman, Catherine Boulton, Dorothea Zaymes, Meriel Evans, Angela Walton, Anya Linden, Deidre Dixon, Peter Clegg, Ronald Plaisted, Gary Burne, Leon Arnold, Henry Naughton, Michael Boulton

Les Sylphides

Nocturne: Alicia Markova, John Field, Nadia Nerina, Pauline Clayden, Diane Forhan, Catherine Boulton, Shirley Bateman, Rosemary Valaire, Joan Benesh, Dorothea Zaymes, Anya Linden, Fiorella Keane, Wendy Winn, June Lesley, Deidre Dixon, Yvonne English, Meriel Evans, Brenda Taylor, Greta Hamby
Valse: Pauline Clayden
Mazurka: John Field
Prelude: Alicia Markova
Mazurka: Nadia Nerina
Pas de deux: Alicia Markova, John Field
Finale: Ensemble

Veneziana

Ladies: Dorothea Zaymes, Angela Walton, Joan Benesh, Brenda Taylor, June Lesley, Fiorella Keane
Cavaliers: Henry Naughton, Gary Burne, Leon Arnold, Derek Rencher, Henry Legerton, Michael Boulton
Masked Ladies: Meriel Evans, Valerie Adams, Greta Hamby, Rosemary Valaire
Tarantella Dancers: Anne Heaton, Gerd Larsen, April Olrich, Julia Farron
Young Lovers: Rosemary Lindsay, Alexander Grant, Wendy Winn, Gilbert Vernon, Anya Linden, Douglas Steuart
Punchinello: Ray Powell
Harlequins: Brian Shaw, Peter Clegg
Columbines: Pauline Clayden, Rowena Jackson
La Favorita: Violetta Elvin
Gondoliers: Desmond Doyle, Arnott Mader, Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Ronald Hynd

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Scenery and Costumes, The Shadow: John Piper
Scenery Builder, The Shadow, Les Sylphides, Veneziana: Ted Waldron
Scenery Painter, The Shadow, Les Sylphides, Veneziana: Clement Glock
Costume Maker, The Shadow: Alec Shanks
Orchestrations, Les Sylphides: Gordon Jacob
Lighting, Les Sylphides: John Sullivan
Design, Les Sylphides: After Alexandre Benois
Costume Maker, Les Sylphides, Veneziana: Olivia Cranmer
Arranger and Orchestrator, Veneziana: Denis Aplvor
Scenery and Costumes, Veneziana: Sophie Fedorovitch
Fabric Dying and Painting, Veneziana: Barbara Ternouth, Daphne Thomas

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Associate Director: Frederick Ashton
Musical Director: Robert Irving
Personal Assistant to the Director: Ailne Phillips
Professor of Dancing and Répétiteur: Harijs Plucis
Ballet Master: Alfred Rodrigues
Ballet Mistress: Jill Gregory
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy
Accompanists: Hilda Gaunt, Jean Gilbert
Orchestra Manager: Morris Smith
Librarian: R. Temple Savage
Ballet Company General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Stage Manager: Michael Manuel

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
Deputy General Administrator: Sir Steuart Wilson
House Manager: Neville Coppel
Box Office Manager: Derek Wilson
Stage Director: Louis Yudkin
Production Manager: John Sullivan
Chief Machinist: Horace Fox
Chief Electrician: William Bundy
Property Master: Edward Blatch
Resident House Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney