MUSIC
Malcolm Arnold
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Oliver Messel
DANCERS
Entrée: Ensemble
Procession of the Four Elements:
The Queen of the Earth: Nadia Nerina; Her Consort: Alexis Rassine; Her Attendants: Pauline Clayden, Margaret Dale, Anne Heaton, Michael Boulton, Peter Clegg, Ray Powell; Pas de six: Joan Benesh, June Lesley, Avril Navarre, April Olrich, Angela Walton, Dorothea Zaymes
The Queen of the Waters: Violetta Elvin; Her Consort: John Hart; Her Attendants: corps de ballet; Pas de trois: Brian Shaw, Julia Farron, Rowena Jackson
The Queen of Fire: Beryl Grey; Her Consort: John Field; Spirit of Fire: Alexander Grant; pas de quatre: Svetlana Beriosova, Rosemary Lindsay, Bryan Ashbridge, Philip Chatfield
The Queen of the Air: Margot Fonteyn; Her Consort: Michael Somes; Her Attendants: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 2 June 1953
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; Air pas de deux only
DANCERS
Georgina Parkinson, Keith Rosson
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
Royal Ballet, 1994
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Air
DANCERS
Deborah Bull, William Trevitt
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 9 December 1994
Royal Ballet, 2006
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet; new choreography by David Bintley (Earth), Michael Corder (Water), Christopher Wheeldon (Fire); choreography by Ashton staged and recreated by Christopher Newton
DANCERS
Ensemble; The Queen of the Air: Darcey Bussell; Her Consort: David Makhateli; Her Attendants: corps de ballet; Apotheosis: Ensemble
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Peter Farmer
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 5 June 2006
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