Symphonic Variations (1946)

MUSIC

César Franck (Variations symphoniques, for piano and orchestra, 1885)

SCENERY & COSTUMES

Sophie Fedorovitch

DANCERS

Margot Fonteyn, Pamela May, Moira Shearer, Michael Somes, Henry Danton, Brian Shaw

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 24 April 1946

New Stagings / Productions

Royal Ballet touring section, 1970

STAGING

Royal Ballet touring section

DANCERS

Antoinette Sibley, Jennifer Penney, Laura Connor, Anthony Dowell, Robert Mead, Michael Coleman

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 9 November 1970

Birmingham Royal Ballet, 1992

STAGING

Birmingham Royal Ballet

REPRODUCED BY

Michael Somes

DANCERS

Rachel Peppin, Sherilyn Kennedy, Susan Lucas, Kevin O’Hare, James Bailey, Vincent Redmon

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Hippodrome, Birmingham, 19 October 1992

By other companies

Fonteyn World Tour, 1963

STAGING

Fonteyn World Tour, 1963

DANCERS

Margot Fonteyn, Annette Page, Shirley Grahame, Royes Fernandez, Ronald Hynd, Alexander Grant

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Athens Festival, Herod Atticus Theatre, Athens, 9 August 1963

Het Nationale Ballet, 1989

STAGING

Het Nationale Ballet

REPRODUCED BY

Michael Somes and Wendy Ellis

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Muziektheater, Amsterdam, 18 October 1989

American Ballet Theatre, 1992

STAGING

American Ballet Theatre

REPRODUCED BY

Michael Somes, assisted by Judy Maelor-Thomas

DANCERS

Cynthia Harvey, Ashley Tuttle, Sandra Brown, Ethan Brown, Parrish Maynard, Wes Chapman

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, 29 March 1992

National Ballet of Canada, 1996

STAGING

National Ballet of Canada

REPRODUCED BY

Wendy Ellis Somes

FIRST PERFORMANCE

O’Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, 8 May 1996

San Francisco Ballet, 2004

STAGING

San Francisco Ballet

REPRODUCED BY

Wendy Ellis Somes

DANCERS

Julie Diana, Vanessa Zahorian, Tina LeBlanc, Damian Smith, Joan Boada, Nicolas Blanc

FIRST PERFORMANCE

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco CA, 13 April 2004

An Evening of British Ballet, 2004

STAGING

An Evening of British Ballet

REPRODUCED BY

Bruce Sansom and Wendy Ellis Somes

COSTUMES

Sophie Fedorovitch

DANCERS

Alina Cojocaru, Johann Kobborg, Deidre Chapman, Ricardo Cervera, Lauren Cuthbertson, Edward Watson

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Festival de Sintra, Portugal, 23 July 2004