MUSIC
William Walton
SCENERY & COSTUMES
John Piper
DANCERS
Archimago (a Magician personifying Hypocrisy): Leslie Edwards; Female Servant (transformed into Una): Celia Franca; Male Servant: Anthony Burke; Bats (Evil Spirits): Pauline Clayden, Lorna Mossford; St George (the Red Cross Knight, personifying Holiness): Robert Helpmann; Una (personifying Truth): Margot Fonteyn; Saracen Knights:- Sansjoy: David Paltenghi; Sansloy: Alexis Rassine; Sansfoy: Franklin White; Duessa (personifying Falsehood): Beryl Grey; The Seven Deadly Sins:- Pride (as Queen): Moira Shearer; Sloth: Nigel Desmond; Gluttony: Ray Powell; Wrath: Celia Franca; Lechery: Anthony Burke; Avarice: Gordon Hamilton; Envy: Palma Nye; Faith: Julia Farron; Hope: Moyra Fraser; Charity: Jean Bedells; Courtiers and Attendant Virtues: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, New Theatre, London, 6 April 1943
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