MUSIC
Frederick Delius (Paris, Ein Nachtstück: The Song of a Great City, 1899)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Sophie Fedorovitch
DANCERS
A Spectator: Frederick Ashton; A Young Man: Robert Helpmann; A Rich Girl (later called A Young Girl): June Brae; A Poor Girl (later called A Flower Girl): Margot Fonteyn; Maskers, Revellers: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 10 November 1936
New Stagings / Productions
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, 1946
STAGING
Sadler’s Wells Ballet
DANCERS
as above except A Young Girl: Pamela May
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 18 March 1946
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; excerpt only
DANCERS
A Poor Girl: Margot Fonteyn; A Spectator: Michael Somes
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London 24 July 1970
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