MUSIC
Alan Rawsthorne
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Isabel Lambert
DANCERS
Pierre, a French sailor: Alexander Grant; Yves, his brother: Desmond Doyle; Mme Chrysanthème: Elaine Fifield; Mme Renoncule, her mother: Elizabeth Kennedy; M Très-Propre, her father: Franklin White; M Kangarou, a marriage broker: Ray Powell; Mlle Wistéria, a courtesan: Anne Heaton; Mlle Pluie d’Avril, a courtesan: Pauline Clayden; Mlle Pureté, Mlle Prune, cousins of Chrysanthème: Merle Park, Angela Walton; A Dignitary: Leslie Edwards; Bambou, a boatman and rickshaw boy: Roy Taylor; Government Officials, Mousmés and Mouskos (Chrysanthème’s Friends), Djinn: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 1 April 1955
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