MUSIC
Hans Werner Henze
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Lila de Nobili
DANCERS
Ondine: Margot Fonteyn; Palemon: Michael Somes; Berta: Julia Farron; Tirrenio, Lord of the Mediterranean Sea: Alexander Grant; A Hermit: Leslie Edwards; Grand pas classique: Rosemary Lindsay, Annette Page, Ronald Hynd, Desmond Doyle, and corps de ballet; Divertissement: Maryon Lane, Brian Shaw, Merle Park, Doreen Wells, Peter Clegg, Pirmin Trecu, and corps de ballet; Ondines, Hunt, Wood Sprites, People from the Port, Sailors, Wedding Guests, Lackeys, Footmen, Acolytes, Page: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 27 October 1958
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Ballet, 1959
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet; revised choreography
DANCERS
(principals) as above
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 4 September 1959 (?)
Royal Ballet, 1964
NEW PRODUCTION
Royal Ballet; with further revisions
DANCERS
Ondine: Margot Fonteyn; Palemon: Donald MacLeary; Berta: Deanne Bergsma; Tirrenio: Alexander Grant
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 14 February 1964
Royal Ballet, 1970
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; “Vision of Ondine” only
DANCERS
Ondine: Christine Aitken
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
Royal Ballet, 1981
STAGING
Royal Ballet; Act III divertissement only
DANCERS
Wendy Ellis, Wayne Eagling, Laura Connor, Rosalyn Whitten, Stephen Beagley, Ashley Page
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 29 May 1981 (50th Anniversary Programme)
Royal Ballet, 1988
STAGING
Royal Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Christopher Newton
DANCERS
Ondine: Maria Almeida; Palemon: Anthony Dowell; Berta: Deanne Bergsma; Tirrenio: Stephen Jefferies; Divertissement: Rosalyn Whitten, Bruce Sansom, Fiona Brockway, Nicola Roberts, Anthony Dowson, Jay Jolley
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 10 May 1988
Productions by Other Companies
Ballets de Noël, 1959
STAGING
Ballets de Noël; pas de deux from Act I only
DANCERS
Ondine: Margot Fonteyn; Palemon: Michael Somes
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Théâtre de Monte Carlo, 3 January 1959
Teatro alla Scala, 2000
STAGING
Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
REPRODUCED BY
Christopher Carr, Grant Coyle, Donald MacLeary
DANCERS
Ondine: Alessandra Ferri; Palemon: Adam Cooper; Berta: Sabina Galasso; Tirrenio: Biagio Tambone
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 21 April 2000
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