MUSIC
Constant Lambert, partly orchestrated by Robert Irving, Christian Darnton, Humphrey Searle, Denis ApIvor, Gordon Jacob, Alan Rawsthorne and Elisabeth Lutyens
CURTAIN, SCENERY & COSTUMES
Isabel Lambert
DANCERS
Tiresias (male): Michael Somes; Neophyte: Margaret Dale; Snakes: Pauline Clayden, Brian Shaw; Tiresias (female): Margot Fonteyn; Her Lover: John Field; Zeus: Alfred Rodrigues; Hera: Gerd Larsen; Athletes, Warriors, Priestesses, Shepherdesses, Shepherds: corps de ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 9 July 1951
New Stagings / Productions
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, 1952
STAGING
Revised version, 26 February 1952
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