Le lac des cygnes
Contributors: De Valois, Ninette, 1898-2001; Ashton, Frederick, Sir, 1904-1988; Lambert, Constant, 1905-1951; Irving, Robert, 1913-1991; Hurry, Leslie, 1909-; Ivanov, Lev, 1834-1901; Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910; Coe, Richard L. (Richard Livingstone), 1914-1995, annotator; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893; Sadler's Wells Ballet; Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1949
Language: eng
Other titles: Sadler's Wells Ballet, Metropolitan Opera House; Swan lake.; Swan lake (Choreographic work : Ivanov and Petipa)
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, artistic direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert, conductor: Robert Irving, guest conductor: Constant Lambert, "Le Lac des Cygnes," ballet in four acts, music by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, produced by Nicolai Sergueff, scenery and costumes designed by Leslie Hurry, the action takes place in legendary Germany, conductor: Constant Lambert.
Notes: Metropolitan Opera House, Sunday afternoon, October 30, 1949.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: John Field, June Brae, Paul Reymond, Leslie Edwards, Alexis Rassine, Nadia Nerina, Margaret Dale, Anne Heaton, Ray Powell, John Cranko, Brian Shaw, Henry Legerton, Gilbert Vernon, Kenneth Melville, Kenneth Macmillan, Philip Chatfield, Alexander Grant, Michael Boulton, Franklin White, Bryan Ashbridge, Anne Gieves, Paula Dunning, Rowena Jackson, Sheila Nelson, Rosemary Valaire, Fiorella Keane, Anne Heaton, Margaret Sear, Christine Du Boulay, Thekla Russell, Dorothea Zaymes, Jean Stokes, Greta Hamby, Pauline Wadsworth, Valerie Taylor, Wendy Winn, Beryl Grey, Anne Negus, Avril Navarre, Margaret Dale, Pauline Clayden, Violetta Elvin, Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Palma Nye, Jean Stokes, April Olrich, Jill Gregory, Valerie Taylor, Gillian Lynne.

Principal artists: Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer, Pamela May, Beryl Grey, Violetta Elvin, Alexis Rassine, Michael Somes, Harold Turner, John Hart, Margaret Dale, Pauline Clayden, Gerd Larsen, June Brae, Anne Negus, Gillian Lynne, Avril Navarre, Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Palma Nye, Nadia Nerina, Anne Heaton, Alexander Grant, John Field, Brian Shaw, Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards, Ray Powell, Franklin White, Henry Legerton.

LC copy has notation by Coe on front cover: "Swan Lake". Shelved under: Sadler's Wells Ballet.

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