MUSIC
Edward Elgar (Variations on an Original Theme, “Enigma” Opus 36)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Julia Trevelyan Oman
DANCERS
Edward Elgar (E D U): Derek Rencher; The Lady – Elgar’s Wife (C A E): Svetlana Beriosova; Hew David Steuart-Powell (H D S-P): Stanley Holden; Richard Baxter Townshend (R B T): Brian Shaw; William Meath Baker (W M B): Alexander Grant; Richard P Arnold (R P A): Robert Mead; Isabel Fitton (Ysabel): Vyvyan Lorrayne; Arthur Troyte Griffith (Troyte): Anthony Dowell; Winifred Norbury (W N): Georgina Parkinson; A J Jaeger (Nimrod): Desmond Doyle; Dora Penny (Dorabella): Antoinette Sibley; George Robertson Sinclair (G R S): Wayne Sleep; Basil G Nevinson (B G N): Leslie Edwards; Lady Mary Lygon (***): Deanne Bergsma; Schoolgirl: Patricia Linton; Country Boy and Girl: Donald Kirkpatrick, Lesley Collier; Sailor Boy and Girl: Frank Freeman, Christine Aitken; Housekeeper: Julie Wood; Gardener: Ronald Plaisted; The Carrier: Gary Sinclair; Country Woman: Lois Strike; Telegraph Boy: John Haynes
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 25 October 1968
New Stagings / Productions
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 1994
STAGING
Birmingham Royal Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Michael Somes
DANCERS
Edward Elgar: Desmond Kelly; The Lady: Sherilyn Kennedy; Hew David Steuart-Powell: Paul Bayes-Kitcher; Richard Baxter Townshend: David Morse; William Meath Baker: Samuel Armstrong; Richard P Arnold: Duncan de Gruchy; Isabel Fitton: Jessica Clarke; Arthur Troyte Griffith: Kevin O’Hare; Winifred Norbury: Ravenna Tucker; A J Jaeger: Alain Dubreuil; Dora Penny: Sandra Madgwick; George Robinson Sinclair: Edwin Mota; Basil G Nevinson: Leslie Edwards; Lady Mary Lygon: Catherine Batcheller
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Hippodrome, Birmingham, 21 October 1994
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