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
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