The Fairy Queen (1946)

Masque in three acts, after William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

MUSIC

Henry Purcell (1692), adapted by Constant Lambert (in association with Edward Dent)

SCENERY & COSTUMES

Michael Ayrton (Curtain)

PLAYERS

Margaret Rawlings, Robert Helpmann, James Kenney, Tony Tarver, Edgar Evans, Audrey Bowman, Constance Shacklock, Harcourt Williams, Michael Hordern

DANCERS

Tatiana’s train: Julia Farron, Gerd Larsen, Palma Nye, Lorna Mossford, Rosemary Lindsay, Joan Grantham, Christine du Boulay, Margaret Sear; Ballet of the Birds: Anne Negus, Pauline Clayden, Jill Gregory, Avril Navarre; Echo Dancers: Beryl Grey, Gillian Lynne, Margaret Dale; The Followers of Night: corps de ballet; Four Fairies: Anne Negus, Pauline Clayden, Jill Gregory, Avril Navarre; A Nymph: Moira Shearer; Savages: Franklin White, Kenneth Melville, Paddy Stone, Alexander Grant; Spirits of the Air: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes; Phoebus: David Davenport; Attendants on Spring: Moira Shearer and corps de ballet; Attendants on Summer: Beryl Grey and corps de ballet; Attendants on Autumn: Michael Somes and corps de ballet; Attendants on Winter: David Paltenghi and corps de ballet; Four Chinese Dancers: Alexis Rassine, John Hart, Pauline Clayden, Margaret Dale; Two Chinese Children: Veronica Vail, Peter Clegg; Hymen: Richard Ellis

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Covent Garden Opera and Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 12 December 1946

New Stagings / Productions

Ny Norsk Ballet, 1950

STAGING

Spirits of the Air pas de deux only

DANCERS

Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Norske Theatre, Oslo, 30 January 1950