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Pomona (1930)

Ballet in one act by Thomas McGreevy


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 Constant Lambert (ballet, 1926)
SC John Banting

D Pomona: Anna Ludmilla; Vertumnus: Anton Dolin; Attendants on Vertumnus: Walter Gore, Jack Spurgeon; Principal Nymphs: Doris Sonne, Marie Nielson; Nymphs: Wendy Toye, Joy Newton, Beatrice Appleyard, Iris James, Anna Brunton, Elisabeth Schooling; Flamen Pomonalis (High Priest): Philip McNair
FP Camargo Society, Cambridge Theatre, London, 19 October 1930

ST Annual Festival of International Society of Contemporary Music, Oxford, 24 July 1931

(Announced for presentation by both the Ballet Club and Vic- Wells Ballet in 1931, but not given)

NP Vic-Wells Ballet; SC Vanessa Bell
D Pomona: Beatrice Appleyard; Vertumnus: Anton Dolin
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 17 January 1933

NP Vic-Wells Ballet; SC John Banting
D Pomona: Margot Fonteyn; Vertumnus: Robert Helpmann
FP Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 3 June 1937
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 28 September 1937
(Pas de deux danced by Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann at Nijinsky Gala Matinee, His Majesty's Theatre, London, 28 May 1937)

ST BBC Television; solo (Pastorale) only
D Margot Fonteyn
10 June 1937