The Ballet of Mars and Venus by Marie Rambert
INCIDENTAL MUSIC
Incidental music arranged by Constant Lambert
Scenery: Aubrey Hammond
Costumes: Herbert Norris
Players: Matheson Lang, Peggy Ashcroft, Veronica Turleigh, Felix Aylmer, A Bromley Davenport, and others
MUSIC
Domenico Scarlatti, orchestrated by Constant Lambert (Sonatas)
SCENERY
Aubrey Hammond
COSTUMES
Herbert Norris
DANCERS
Venus: Pearl Argyle; Her Nymphs: Andrée Howard, Anna Brunton; Mars: Harold Turner
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Opera House, Blackpool, 29 July 1929
Duke of York’s Theatre, London, 19 September 1929
New Stagings / Productions
Ballet Club, London, 1931
NEW PRODUCTION
Marie Rambert Dancers; revised version under the title ‘Mars and Venus’
FIRST PERFORMANCE
FP Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 25 February 1930
Ballet Club, London, 20 April 1931
Camargo Society, 1931
STAGING
Camargo Society; the same revised version but with music orchestrated ‘for full l8th-century orchestra’ by Constant Lambert
DANCERS
As above, Nymphs listed as “Attendants”
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Cambridge Theatre, London, 26 April 1931
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