MUSIC
Constant Lambert (ballet, 1926)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
John Banting
DANCERS
Pomona: Anna Ludmilla; Vertumnus: Anton Dolin; Attendants on Vertumnus: Walter Gore, Jack Spurgeon; Principal Nymphs: Doris Sonne, Marie Nielson; Nymphs: Wendy Toye, Joy Newton, Beatrice Appleyard, Iris James, Anna Brunton, Elisabeth Schooling; Flamen Pomonalis (High Priest): Philip McNair
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Camargo Society, Cambridge Theatre, London, 19 October 1930
Announced for presentation by both the Ballet Club and Vic- Wells Ballet in 1931, but not given
New Stagings / Productions
International Society of Contemporary Music, 1931
STAGING
Annual Festival of International Society of Contemporary Music, Oxford, 24 July 1931
Vic-Wells Ballet, 1933
NEW PRODUCTION
Vic-Wells Ballet
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Vanessa Bell
DANCERS
Pomona: Beatrice Appleyard; Vertumnus: Anton Dolin
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 17 January 1933
Vic-Wells Ballet, 1937
NEW PRODUCTION
Vic-Wells Ballet
SCENERY & COSTUMES
John Banting
DANCERS
Pomona: Margot Fonteyn; Vertumnus: Robert Helpmann
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 3 June 1937
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 28 September 1937
(Pas de deux danced by Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann at Nijinsky Gala Matinee, His Majesty’s Theatre, London, 28 May 1937)
BBC Television, 1937
STAGING
BBC Television; solo (Pastorale) only
DANCERS
Margot Fonteyn
FIRST PERFORMANCE
10 June 1937
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