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Leda (1928)


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)



Choreography by Frederick Ashton and Marie Rambert
M Christoph Willibald Gluck (ballet music from Orfeo ed Euridice)
C William Chappell

D Leda: Diana Gould; Zeus: Frederick Ashton; Hermes: Harold Turner; Ganymede: William Chappell; Naiades: Pearl Argyle, Andrée Howard, Kathleen O'Connor, Irene Kinsey, Joyce Peters, Prudence Hyman
FP Marie Rambert's studio, London, June 1928
Sunshine Matinee, Apollo Theatre, London, 10 July 1928

NP Marie Rambert Dancers; revised choreography by Ashton alone, under the title Leda and the Swan; C William Chappell and (for Ashton) Bruce Winston
D Leda: Diana Gould; The Swan: Frederick Ashton; Zephyrs: Harold Turner, William Chappell; Nymphs: Pearl Argyle, Andrée Howard, Prudence Hyman, Irene Kinsey, Elisabeth Schooling, Kathleen Suthers
FP Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 25 February 1930