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A Day in a Southern Port (1931)


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 (The Rio Grande, 1927)
Poem by Sacheverell Sitwell
Curtain SC Edward Burra

D The Queen of the Port: Lydia Lopokova; Her Sailor: Walter Gore; A Creole Girl: Alicia Markova; A Creole Boy: William Chappell; Women of the Port, Stevedores, Stokers, Loiterers, Natives etc: corps de ballet
FP Camargo Society, Savoy Theatre, London, 29 November 1931

NP Vic-Wells Ballet; under the title Rio Grande
D The Queen of the Port: Beatrice Appleyard; The Creole Girl: Margot Fonteyn; The Stevedore: Walter Gore; The Creole Boy: William Chappell
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 26 March 1935

ST Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; Sailor's Dance only
D Alexander Grant
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970