CHOREOGRAPHY
Frederick Ashton and Marie Rambert
MUSIC
Christoph Willibald Gluck (ballet music from Orfeo ed Euridice)
COSTUMES
William Chappell
DANCERS
Leda: Diana Gould; Zeus: Frederick Ashton; Hermes: Harold Turner; Ganymede: William Chappell; Naiades: Pearl Argyle, Andrée Howard, Kathleen O’Connor, Irene Kinsey, Joyce Peters, Prudence Hyman
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Marie Rambert’s studio, London, June 1928
Sunshine Matinee, Apollo Theatre, London, 10 July 1928
New Stagings / Productions
Marie Rambert Dancers, 1930
NEW PRODUCTION
Marie Rambert Dancers; revised choreography by Ashton alone, under the title Leda and the Swan
COSTUMES
William Chappell and (for Ashton) Bruce Winston
DANCERS
Leda: Diana Gould; The Swan: Frederick Ashton; Zephyrs: Harold Turner, William Chappell; Nymphs: Pearl Argyle, Andrée Howard, Prudence Hyman, Irene Kinsey, Elisabeth Schooling, Kathleen Suthers
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 25 February 1930
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