Checkmate
Contributors: De Valois, Ninette, 1898-2001; Ashton, Frederick, Sir, 1904-1988; Lambert, Constant, 1905-1951; Irving, Robert, 1913-1991; Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954; Hollingsworth, John, 1916-1963; Bliss, Arthur, 1891-1975; Sadler's Wells Ballet; Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1950
Language: eng
Other titles: Sadler's Wells Ballet, Metropolitan Opera House; Checkmate (Choreographic work : De Valois)
Description: Metropolitan Opera House, The Covent Garden Opera Trust, general administrator: David L. Webster, in association with The Arts Council of Great Britain and the British Council presents "The Sadler's Wells Ballet," from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under the management of S. Hurok, director: Ninette De Valois, principal choreographer: Frederick Ashton, musical director: Robert Irving, artistic direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert, conductors: John Hollingsworth, Robert Irving, guest conductor: Robert Zeller, "Checkmate," a ballet in one scene with a prologue, music by Arthur Bliss (by arrangement with Novello & Co. Ltd.), choreography by Ninette de Valois, costumes and scenery by E. McKnight Kauffer, conductor: John Hollingsworth, first produced by the Sadler's Wells Ballet in Paris, June 15, 1937.
Notes: Metropolitan Opera House, Saturday afternoon, September 23, 1950.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Wendy Winn, Franklin White, Margaret Dale, Rowena Jackson, Jill Gregory, Anne Negus, Pauline Clayden, Nadia Nerina, Fiorella Keane, Dorothea Zaymes, Alexis Rassine, John Hart, Kenneth Melville, Philip Chatfield, Pamela May, Julia Farron, Leslie Edwards, Paul Reymond, Henry Legerton, William Barrett, Kenneth Macmillan, Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Pauline Wadsworth, Christine du Boulay, Gillian Lynne, Thekla Russell, Paula Dunning, Rosemary Valaire, Bryan Ashbridge, Alfred Rodrigues.

Principal artists: Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer, Pamela May, Beryl Grey, Violetta Elvin, Alexis Rassine, Michael Somes, John Hart, Alexander Grant, John Field, Brian Shaw, Margaret Dale, Pauline Clayden, Julia Farron, Gerd Larsen, Anne Negus, Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Nadia Nerina, Anne Heaton, Leslie Edwards, Richard Ellis, Ray Powell, Franklin White, Henry Legerton, Kenneth Macmillan, Philip Chatfield, Kenneth Melville, Gilbert Vernon, Alfred Rodrigues.

LC copy shelved under: Sadler's Wells Ballet.

With: A wedding bouquet -- Dante sonata. Issued together.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).