MUSIC
Richard Rodney Bennett
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Derek Jarman
DANCERS
Monday: Vergie Derman
Tuesday: Merle Park, Anthony Dowell, Robert Mead
Wednesday: Vyvyan Lorrayne, Paul Brown, David Drew, Ian Hamilton, Derek Rencher
Thursday: Alexander Grant, Diana Vere, Lesley Collier, Carole Hill, Patricia Linton, Geraldine Morris, Suzanna Raymond
Friday: Antoinette Sibley, Rudolf Nureyev
Saturday: Desmond Doyle, Michael Coleman, Lambert Cox, Frank Freeman, Jonathan Kelly, Keith Martin, Kenneth Mason, Peter O’Brien, Wayne Sleep
Sunday: Marilyn Trounson and ensemble
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 9 January 1968
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Ballet School, 1974
STAGING
Royal Ballet School
DANCERS
Monday: Lucinda Harper
Tuesday: Lorna Murray, Stephen Beagley, Nigel Jones
Wednesday: Amanda Wilkinson
Thursday: Stephen Speed
Friday: Denise Nunn, Michael Batchelor
Saturday: Desmond Doyle
Sunday: Claire Farnsworth
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 29 June 1974
Ballet for All, 1978
STAGING
Ballet for All; excerpts only
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Wycliffe College, Stroud, 10 October 1978
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 1990
STAGING
Birmingham Royal Ballet
DANCERS
Monday: Annette Pain
Tuesday: Marion Tait
Wednesday: Ravenna Tucker
Thursday: Vincent Redmon
Friday: Sherilyn Kennedy, Kevin O’Hare
Saturday: Alain Dubreuil
Sunday: Dorcas Walters
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Hippodrome, Birmingham, 30 October 1990
By other companies:
The Joffrey Ballet, 1977
STAGING
The Joffrey Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Faith Worth and Michael Somes
DANCERS
Monday: Cynthia Anderson
Tuesday: Francesca Corkle, Andrew Levinson, Kevin McKenzie
Wednesday: Charlene Gehm
Thursday: Gary Chryst
Friday: Ingrid Fraley, Gregory Huffman
Saturday: Robert Estner
Sunday: Rachel Ganteaume
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Artpark, Lewiston NY, 31 August 1977
Palm Beach Festival, 1983
STAGING
Palm Beach Festival: Friday only
DANCERS
Denise Jackson, Jay Jolley
FIRST PERFORMANCE
West Palm Beach Auditorium, Palm Beach FL, 22 May 1983
Ballet of La Scala, Milan, 1991
NEW PRODUCTION
Ballet of La Scala, Milan
REPRODUCED BY
Faith Worth
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Luigi Serafini
DANCERS
Monday: Gilda Gelati
Tuesday: Elisabetta Armiato, Laurentiu Giunea, Massimo Murru
Wednesday: Ornella Costalonga
Thursday: Stefano Benedini
Friday: Anita Magyari, Bryan Hewison
Saturday: Giuseppe Arena
Sunday: Annamaria Grossi
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 11 July 1991
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