MUSIC
Lord Berners
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Francis Rose
DANCERS
Pan: Michael Somes; Nymphs: Palma Nye, Joan Leaman; Psyche: Julia Farron; Cupid: Frank Staff; Venus: June Brae; Psyche’s Sisters: Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller; Ceres: Margot Fonteyn*; Minerva: Mary Honer; Diana: Elizabeth Miller; Apollo: Richard Ellis; Juno: Ursula Moreton; Jupiter: David Grey; Narrators: Kathleen Hilditch, Margaret Tepler; Tanagra Women, Townspeople, Attendants on Ceres, Attendants on Minerva, Attendants on Diana, Attendants on Juno and Jupiter: corps de ballet
*This role was to have been danced by Pamela May, but when she became ill Fonteyn replaced her at the last moment.
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 27 April 1939
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; solo for Psyche only
DANCERS
Marilyn Trounson
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