Madame Chrysanthème (1955)

Ballet in one act and five scenes by Frederick Ashton and Vera Bowen, adapted from the book by Pierre Loti

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