Don Juan (1948)

A Choreographic Impression by Frederick Ashton (subtitle added 13 September 1952)

MUSIC

Richard Strauss (Symphonic Poem, opus 20)

SCENERY & COSTUMES

Edward Burra

DANCERS

Don Juan: Robert Helpmann; “La Morte Amoureuse”: Margot Fonteyn; Her Attendants: Alfred Rodrigues, Bryan Ashbridge; A Young Wife: Moira Shearer; Her Husband: Richard Ellis; Amours: Anne Heaton, Gerd Larsen, Julia Farron, Rosemary Lindsay, Nadia Nerina, Gillian Lynne; Rivals: John Field, Kenneth Melville, Philip Chatfield; Carnaval: corps de ballet

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 25 November 1948