Enigma Variations (1968)
(My Friends Pictured Within)
Abbreviations:
M Music by
S Scenery by
C Costumes by
D Danced by
FP First performance
NP New production
R Reproduced by
ST Staging (indicates that the ballet was produced in substantially its original form)
M Edward Elgar (Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma" Opus 36)
SC Julia Trevelyan Oman
D Edward Elgar (E D U): Derek Rencher; The Lady - Elgar's Wife
(C A E): Svetlana Beriosova; Hew David Steuart-Powell (H D S-P):
Stanley Holden; Richard Baxter Townshend (R B T): Brian
Shaw; William Meath Baker (W M B): Alexander Grant; Richard P
Arnold (R P A): Robert Mead; Isabel Fitton (Ysabel): Vyvyan
Lorrayne; Arthur Troyte Griffith (Troyte): Anthony Dowell;
Winifred Norbury (W N): Georgina Parkinson; A J Jaeger
(Nimrod): Desmond Doyle; Dora Penny (Dorabella): Antoinette
Sibley; George Robertson Sinclair (G R S): Wayne Sleep; Basil G
Nevinson (B G N): Leslie Edwards; Lady Mary Lygon (***):
Deanne Bergsma; Schoolgirl: Patricia Linton; Country Boy and
Girl: Donald Kirkpatrick, Lesley Collier; Sailor Boy and Girl: Frank
Freeman, Christine Aitken; Housekeeper: Julie Wood; Gardener:
Ronald Plaisted; The Carrier: Gary Sinclair; Country Woman:
Lois Strike; Telegraph Boy: John Haynes
FP Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 25 October 1968
ST Birmingham Royal Ballet; R Michael Somes
D Edward Elgar:
Desmond Kelly; The Lady: Sherilyn Kennedy; Hew David
Steuart-Powell: Paul Bayes-Kitcher; Richard Baxter Townshend:
David Morse; William Meath Baker: Samuel Armstrong; Richard
P Arnold: Duncan de Gruchy; Isabel Fitton: Jessica Clarke;
Arthur Troyte Griffith: Kevin O'Hare; Winifred Norbury: Ravenna
Tucker; A J Jaeger: Alain Dubreuil; Dora Penny: Sandra
Madgwick; George Robinson Sinclair: Edwin Mota; Basil G
Nevinson: Leslie Edwards; Lady Mary Lygon: Catherine
Batcheller
FP Hippodrome, Birmingham, 21 October 1994
Copyright © 2004 by David Vaughan