MUSIC
Constant Lambert
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Sophie Fedorovitch
DANCERS
The Young Man (Sun in Leo, Moon in Gemini): Michael Somes; The Young Woman (Sun in Virgo, Moon in Gemini): Margot Fonteyn; The Gemini: Richard Ellis, Alan Carter; The Moon: Pamela May; Followers of Leo, Followers of Virgo, Attendants on the Moon: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 27 January 1938
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; solo for The Moon only
DANCERS
Vyvyan Lorrayne
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
Ballet for All, 1972
STAGING
Ballet for All; Young Man’s solo only
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, 13 October 1972
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