PRODUCER
Devised and produced by Frederick Ashton
MUSIC
Serge Prokofiev (ballet, opus 87)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Jean-Denis Malclès
DANCERS
Cinderella: Moira Shearer; Cinderella’s Stepsisters: Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann; Cinderella’s Father: Franklin White; The Ragged Fairy Godmother: Pamela May; A Tailor: Donald Britton; The Dressmakers: Anne Negus, Margaret Dale; The Shoemaker: Paul Reymond; The Hairdresser: Leslie Edwards; A Jeweller: Henry Legerton; The Dancing Master: Harold Turner; The Coachman: Robert Lunnon; The Fairy Spring: Nadia Nerina; The Fairy Summer: Violetta Elvin; The Fairy Autumn: Pauline Clayden; The Fairy Winter: Beryl Grey; The Prince: Michael Somes; The Jester: Alexander Grant; Suitors: Alfred Rodrigues, Donald Britton; The Prince’s Friends: Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield, Kenneth Melville, Kenneth MacMillan; A Negro: Ronald Kaye; Violinists, Pages, Lackeys, Stars, Courtiers, Guests, Townswomen, Footmen: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 23 December 1948
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Ballet, 1957
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet; adapted for television by Frederick Ashton; directed by Clark Jones
DANCERS
Cinderella: Margot Fonteyn; The Prince: Michael Somes; Stepsisters: Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan
FIRST PERFORMANCE
NBC Television (Producers’ Showcase), New York NY, 29 April 1957
Royal Ballet touring section, 1960
STAGING
Royal Ballet touring section
DANCERS
Cinderella: Margot Fonteyn; The Prince: Michael Somes; Stepsisters: Rosemary Lindsay, Merial Evans
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 14 December 1960
Royal Ballet, 1965
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet; some revisions including new variation for the Fairy Godmother to music from Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives, opus 22 No 7, orchestrated by John Lanchbery
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Henry Bardon and David Walker
DANCERS
Cinderella: Margot Fonteyn; The Prince: David Blair; Stepsisters: Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann; Fairy Godmother: Annette Page; The Jester: Alexander Grant; The Fairy Spring: Antoinette Sibley; The Fairy Summer: Vyvyan Lorrayne; The Fairy Autumn: Merle Park; The Fairy Winter: Deanne Bergsma
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 23 December 1965
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; pas de deux from Act II only
DANCERS
Cinderella: Merle Park; The Prince: Donald MacLeary
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
Ballet for All, 1973
STAGING
Ballet for All; solo for Cinderella from Act I only
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, 11 October 1973
Royal Ballet, 1987
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet
SCENERY & COSTUMES
David Walker
DANCERS
Cinderella: Maria Almeida; The Prince: Jonathan Cope; Stepsisters: David Bintley, Derek Deane
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 16 December 1987
By Other Companies
Ballet of La Scala, Milan, 1960
NEW PRODUCTION
Ballet of La Scala, Milan; pas de deux from Act II only
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Emmanuele Luzzati
DANCERS
Cinderella: Margot Fonteyn; The Prince: Michael Somes
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 11 February 1960
The Australian Ballet, 1972
NEW PRODUCTION
The Australian Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Robert Mead
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Kristian Fredrikson
DANCERS
Cinderella: Lucette Aldous; The Prince: Kelvin Coe; Stepsisters: Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown, Sydney, 17 March 1972
PACT Ballet, 1972
NEW PRODUCTION
PACT Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
John Hart
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Reinhard Heinrich
DANCERS
Cinderella: Dawn Weller; The Prince: Keith Rosson; Stepsisters: James Riveros, Wilhelm Schoeman
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Civic Theatre, Johannesburg, 25 August 1972
Het Nationale Ballet, 1987
STAGING
Het Nationale Ballet, under the title Assepoester
REPRODUCED BY
Michael Somes and Faith Worth
SCENERY & COSTUMES
David Walker
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Muziektheater, Amsterdam, 17 December 1987
Royal Swedish Ballet, 1991
STAGING
Kungliga Teaterns Balett (Royal Swedish Ballet)
REPRODUCED BY
Michael Somes and Faith Worth
SCENERY & COSTUMES
David Walker
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Opera House, Stockholm, 20 April 1991
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