MUSIC
Maurice Ravel (ballet, 1909 – 1912)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Curtain by John Craxton
DANCERS
Chlöe, a shepherdess: Margot Fonteyn; Daphnis, a goat-herd: Michael Somes; Lykanion, a young married woman from the town: Violetta Elvin; Dorkon, a herdsman: John Field; Bryaxis, a pirate chief: Alexander Grant; Pan: Alfred Rodrigues; Nymphs of Pan: Rosemary Lindsay, Gillian Lynne, Julia Farron; Shepherdesses, Shepherds, Pirates, Pirate Women, Dryads*, Fauns*: corps de ballet
*omitted from 4 July 1951
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 3 April 1951
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Ballet, 1994
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Martyn Bainbridge
DANCERS
Chlöe: Trinidad Sevillano; Daphnis: Stuart Casssidy; Lykanion: Benazir Hussein; Dorkon: Adam Cooper; Bryaxis: Matthew Hart
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 10 November 1994
Royal Ballet, 2004
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Curtain by John Craxton
DANCERS
Chlöe: Jaimie Tapper; Daphnis: Federico Bonelli; Lykanion: Marianela Nuñez; Dorkon: Thiago Soares; Bryaxis: Bennet Gartside
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 8 May 2004
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