Les Rendezvous (1933)

Ballet-Divertissement

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 Daniel François Auber, arranged by Constant Lambert (ballet music from L'Enfant prodigue)
SC William Chappell

D 1 Entrance of Walkers Out: Ensemble
2 Pas de six: Beatrice Appleyard, Sheila McCarthy, Freda Bamford, Hermione Darnborough, Nadina Newhouse, Gwyneth Mathews
3 Variation: Stanislas Idzikowski
4 Adagio of Lovers: Alicia Markova, Stanislas Idzikowski
5 Pas de trois: Ninette de Valois, Stanley Judson, Robert Helpmann
6 Variation: Alicia Markova
7 Pas de six: Robert Helpmann, Travis Kemp, Antony Tudor, Claude Newman, Maurice Brooke, Toni Repetto
8 Exit of Walkers Out: Ensemble
FP Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 5 December 1933

NP Vic-Wells Ballet:
D 1 Entrance: Ailne Phillips, William Chappell, and ensemble
2 Pas de quatre (new number): Molly Brown, Joy Robson, Jill Gregory, Margot Fonteyn
3 Variation: Stanislas Idzikowski
4 Adagio of Lovers: Alicia Markova, Stanley Judson
5 Pas de trois: Ailne Phillips, Claude Newman, Robert Helpmann
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 2 October 1934

NP Vic-Wells Ballet; new SC William Chappell
D Lovers: Margot Fonteyn, Harold Turner
Pas de trois: Jill Gregory, Frederick Ashton, Claude Newman
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 16 November 1937

NP Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet; new SC William Chappell
D Adage des amoureux (sic): Elaine Fifield, Michael Boulton
Pas de trois: Sheilah O'Reilly, Donald Britton, Pirmin Trecu
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 26 December 1947

(The decor and costumes for this production were destroyed by fire at the Theatre Royal, Hanley, 2 June 1949; thereafter the ballet was given in Hugh Stevenson's set for Ninette de Valois's Promenade, with new gates and new costumes)

NP Royal Ballet; choreography revised for enlarged corps de ballet; S Sophie Fedorovitch (Act I of La Traviata, 1948; reverted to William Chappell's 1937 decor, 10 October 1962); new C William Chappell
D Amoureux: Nadia Nerina, Brian Shaw Pas de trois: Merle Park, Graham Usher, Petrus Bosman
FP Royal Opera House, London, 7 May 1959

NP Royal Ballet touring section; new C William Chappell (new S added at Pavilion, Bournemouth , 28 September 1961)
D Amoureux: Doreen Wells, Donald Britton
FP Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon, 29 August 1961

ST Royal Ballet School
FP Royal Opera House, London, 15 July 1967

ST Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton
D Amoureux: Merle Park, Rudolf Nureyev
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970

ST Ballet for All; pas de trois only
FP Village College, Melbourne, Derbyshire, 6 October 1971

NP Royal Ballet touring section; SC William Chappell (1937)
D Amoureux: Merle Park, Desmond Kelly
FP Wimbledon Theatre, London, 12 October 1971

ST Ballet for All; pas de deux and variations only
FP Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, 13 October 1972

NP Royal Ballet; R uncredited
D Lovers: Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle
FP Royal Opera House, London, 29 February 2000

By other companies:

ST Ballet of the Norske Opera; R Elisabeth Cunliffe and Brenda Last
FP Den Norske Opera, Oslo, 5 October 1978

NP American Ballet Theatre; R Brian Shaw (1959 version); SC William Chappell (1937)
D Amoureux: Marianna Tcherkassky, Danilo Radojevic
Pas de trois: Rebecca Wright, Warren Conover, Peter Fonseca
FP Kennedy Center, Washington DC, 10 December 1980

ST Banff Center; R Alexander Grant
FP Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, 1986

ST Houston Ballet; R Brian Shaw
FP Wortham Center, Houston TX, 16 March 1989

ST Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Theatre; R Julie Lincoln
D Amoureux: Akiko Shimazoe, Patrick Armand
FP New National Theatre of Japan, Tokyo, 31 July 2003