MUSIC
Jacques Offenbach (from Le Papillon, ballet-pantomime, 1860)
DANCERS
Merle Park, David Wall
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Artists of The Royal Ballet, The Maltings, Snape, Aldeburgh, 16 March 1975
New Stagings / Productions
Royal Opera House, 1977
NEW PRODUCTION
Friends’ Christmas Party, under the title Le Papillon
COSTUMES
Julia Trevelyan Oman
DANCERS
Merle Park, Wayne Eagling
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Opera House, London, 11 December 1977
Coliseum, 1978
STAGING
English National Opera Gala
DANCERS
Merle Park, Wayne Eagling
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Coliseum, London, 21 March 1978
Adelphi Theatre, 1978
STAGING
“A Good Night’s Sleep”
DANCERS
Merle Park, Wayne Eagling
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Adelphi Theatre, London, 28 November 1978
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