MUSIC
Constant Lambert (The Rio Grande, 1927)
Poem by Sacheverell Sitwell
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Edward Burra
DANCERS
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
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Camargo Society, Savoy Theatre, London, 29 November 1931
New Stagings / Productions
Vic-Wells Ballet, 1935
NEW PRODUCTION
Vic-Wells Ballet; under the title Rio Grande
DANCERS
The Queen of the Port: Beatrice Appleyard; The Creole Girl: Margot Fonteyn; The Stevedore: Walter Gore; The Creole Boy: William Chappell
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 26 March 1935
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; Sailor’s Dance only
DANCERS
Alexander Grant
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
Copyright © 2004 by David Vaughan
This listing is part of a chronology that was originally published in Vaughan’s Frederick Ashton and His Ballets (Alfred E Knopf 1976; 2nd ed., London: Dance Books, 1999) and includes new productions added since then, and up until 2007