MUSIC
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (ballet, opus 71)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Cecil Beaton
DANCERS
Scene 1. The Kingdom of Snow
The Queen: Svetlana Beriosova; The King: Robert Lunnon; Snowflakes: corps de ballet
Scene 2. The Kingdom of Sweets
The Sugar Plum Fairy: Elaine Fifield; The Nutcracker Prince: David Blair; Sugar Sticks: Patricia Miller, Carlu Carter, Stella Farrance, Annette Page, Veronica Vail; Chocolate from Spain: Sheilah O’Reilly, Margaret Sear, Pirmin Trecu; Coffee from Arabia: Stella Claire, Arnott Mader, Graham McCormack, Peter Wright; Tea from China: David Gill, Maurice Metliss; Nougat from Russia: Donald Britton, Stanley Holden, Donald McAlpine, Walter Trevor; Crystallised Flowers: Maryon Lane and corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 11 September 1951
See 1954, Trepak
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