MUSIC
Franz Liszt, arranged by Constant Lambert, orchestrated by Gordon Jacob
Prologue: Consolation No 3 in D flat major
Valse oubliée No 1
Nocturne: Schlaflos, Frage und Antwort
Interlude: Ungarisch, from Weihnachtsbaum, No 11
Jadis, from Weihnachtsbaum, No 10
Tableau I: Polnisch, from Weihnachtsbaum, No 9
Galop in A minor
Elegy No 2
Tableau II: Evening Bells, from Weihnachtsbaum, No 9
Scherzoso, from Weihnachtsbaum, No 5
Carillon, from Weihnachtsbaum, No 6
Unstern (Sinistre, Disastro)
Tableau III: Mephisto Valse, No 3
Epilogue : R[ichard] W[agner]–Venezia
Consolation No 1, reprise
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Cecil Beaton
DANCERS
The Poet: Robert Helpmann; The Woman in Ball Dress: Margot Fonteyn; The Hussar: Harold Turner; The Monk: Maurice Brooke; Ladies of Fashion, Dandies, Belfry Spirits, etc: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 11 February 1936
See 1956, The Beloved
New Stagings / Productions
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, 1949
NEW PRODUCTION
Sadler’s Wells Ballet; new Scenery & Costumes by Cecil Beaton (further revised 17 November 1952)
DANCERS
The Poet: Robert Helpmann; The Woman in Ball Dress: Margot Fonteyn
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 24 March 1949
Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet, 1957
STAGING
Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet
DANCERS
The Poet: John Field; The Woman in Ball Dress: Anne Heaton
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 28 January 1957; Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 4 July 1957
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet, Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton, Ballroom Scene (Tableau I) only
DANCERS
The Poet: Rudolf Nureyev; The Woman in Ball Dress: Margot Fonteyn
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
Ballet for All, 1972
STAGING
Ballet for All; excerpt from Tableau 1 only
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, 13 October 1972
London Festival Ballet, 1987
NEW PRODUCTION
London Festival Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Jean Bedells
SCENERY & COSTUMES
William Chappell, after Cecil Beaton
DANCERS
The Poet: Peter Schaufuss; The Lady in the Ball Dress (sic): Natalia Makarova
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Coliseum, London, 13 July 1987
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