MUSIC
Benjamin Britten (Les Illuminations, opus 18)
Poems by Arthur Rimbaud (from Les Illuminations, 1871-1872)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Cecil Beaton
DANCERS
I Fanfare: Nicholas Magallanes
II Dreamtown: Barbara Bocher, Arlouine Case, Dorothy Dushock, Jillana, Barbara Milberg, Francesca Mosarra, Pat McBride, Margaret Walker, Tomi Wortham, Robert Barnett, Brooks Jackson, Shaun O’Brien, Roy Tobias
III Phrase: Nicholas Magallanes
IV Antiquity: Sacred Love: Tanaquil LeClercq; Profane Love: Melissa Hayden
V Royalty: ensemble
VI Anarchy: Tanaquil LeClercq, Dick Beard, Audrey Allen, Doris Breckenridge, Ninette d’Amboise, Peggy Karlson, Robert Barnett, Walter Georgov, Karel Shook
VII Being Beauteous: Tanaquil LeClercq, Dick Beard, Arthur Bell, Jacques d’Amboise, Roy Tobias
VIII Sideshow: ensembe
IX Farewell: ensemble
FIRST PERFORMANCE
New York City Ballet, City Center Theater, New York NY, 2 March 1950
New Stagings / Productions
Jeffrey Ballet, 1980
STAGING
Jeffrey Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
John Taras
DANCERS
The Poet: Gregory Huffman
The Dandy: Glenn Dufford
Sacred Love: Patricia Miller; Profane Love: Beatriz Rodriguez
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago IL, 13 May 1980
Royal Ballet, 1981
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Frederick Ashton and John Taras
DANCERS
The Poet: Ashley Page
The Dandy: Graham Fletcher
Sacred Love: Jennifer Penney; Profane Love: Genesia Rosato
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 3 December 1981
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