Facade
Contributors: De Valois, Ninette, 1898-2001; Ashton, Frederick, Sir, 1904-1988; Lambert, Constant, 1905-1951; Irving, Robert, 1913 Aug. 28-1991; Zeller, Robert; Armstrong, John, 1893-1973; Walton, William, 1902-1983; Gulda, Friedrich, 1930-2000; Angeles, Victoria de los; Souzay, Gérard, 1918-2004; 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; Facade (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, "Facade," a ballet freely adapted to music originally written as a setting to poems by Eidth Sitwell, music by William Walton (by arrangement with Oxford University Press), choreography by Frederick Ashton, scenery and costumes by John Armstrong, conductor: Robert Zeller, first produced for the Camargo Society April 26, 1941, first produced by Sadler's Wells Ballet, 1935.
Notes: Metropolitan Opera House, Sunday evening, September 24, 1950.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: April Olrich, Dorothea Zaymes, Gilbert Vernon, Anne Heaton, Bryan Ashbridge, Richard Ellis, Philip Chatfield, Rosemary Lindsay, Anne Negus, Sheila Nelson, Leslie Edwards, Kenneth Macmillan, Gerd Larsen, Christine du Boulay, Paula Dunning, Gillian Lynne, Brian Shaw, Alexander Grant, Julia Farron, Ray Powell, Alfred Rodrigues, Frederick Ashton, Margaret Dale, ensemble.

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 accompanied by playbill advertisement combining announcements from S. Hurok of Friedrich Gulda at Carnegie Hall, Oct. 11, 1950; Victoria de Los Angeles at Carnegie Hall, Oct. 15, 1950 and Gerard Souzay at Town Hall, Nov. 26, 1950. Shelved under: Sadler's Wells Ballet.

With: Giselle. Issued together.

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