MUSIC
Igor Stravinsky (1944)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
André Beaurepaire
DANCERS
Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Alexander Grant, Donald Britton, John Field, Philip Chatfield, and corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 11 February 1948
New Stagings / Productions
Ballett der Deutschen Oper, 1968
NEW PRODUCTION
Performed in practice dress, without scenery
REPRODUCED BY
Monica Parker and Ray Barra
DANCERS
Silvia Kesselheim, Klaus Beelitz
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 11 March 1968
Het Nationale Ballet, 1992
STAGING
Het Nationale Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Faith Worth and Wayne Eagling
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Muziektheater, Amsterdam, 21 March 1992
Ballet de Nice, 1995
NEW PRODUCTION
Ballet de Nice
REPRODUCED BY
Faith Worth
SCENERY & COSTUMES
André Beaurepaire (new)
DANCERS
Charlotte Chapellier, Michele Politi
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Opéra de Nice, 8 December 1995
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2000
STAGING
Birmingham Royal Ballet
REPRODUCED BY
Malin Thorrs-Watt and Antoinette Sibley
DANCERS
Nao Sakuma, Sergiu Pobereznic
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, 14 April 2000
Royal Swedish Ballet, 2002
STAGING
Kungliga Baletten Operan Stockholm (Royal Swedish Ballet)
REPRODUCED BY
Malin Thorrs-Watt
DANCERS
Nathalie Nordquist, Oscar Salomonsson
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Operan, Stockholm, 15 February 2002
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