MUSIC
Benjamin Britten (Opus BB)
SCENERY
John Piper
COSTUMES
Charles Knode
CAST
Gustav van Aschenbach, a novelist: Peter Pears; The Traveller: John Shirley-Quirk
DANCERS
The Polish Mother: Deanne Bergsma; Tadzio, her son: Robert Huguenin; Her two Daughters: Elizabeth Griffiths, Melanie Phillips; Their Governess: Sheila Humphreys; Jaschiu, Tadzio’s friend: Nicholas Kirby; Street dancer: Sheila Humphreys; Polish, Russian, and German children, Beggars: Angela Cox, Mark Sewell, Matthew Hawkins, Andris Plucis, Mark Welford, Ashley Wheater
FIRST PERFORMANCE
English Opera Group, Aldeburgh Festival, The Maltings, Snape, 16 June 1973
New Stagings / Productions
Metropolitan Opera, 1974
REPRODUCED BY
Faith Worth (choreography revised by Frederick Ashton)
DANCERS
The Polish Mother: Vicki Fisera; Tadzio: Bryan Pitts; Her two Daughters: Alison Woodard, Claudia Sheil; Their Governess: Diana Levy; Jaschiu: Anthony Ferro
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Metropolitan Opera House, New York NY, 18 October 1974
Royal Opera, 1978
STAGING
Royal Opera
DANCERS
Tadzio: Douglas Howes
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 31 March 1978
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