Les sylphides
Contributors: Smith, Oliver Lemuel, 1918-1994; Dunkel, Eugene B.; Levine, Joseph, 1912-1994; Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942; Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976; Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849; Ballet Theatre (New York, N.Y.); Ballet Theatre Foundation; National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1953
Language: eng
Other titles: Ballet theatre; Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
Description: National Theatre, 1321 E Street Realty Corporation, lessee, Louis A. Lotito, managing director, Ballet Theatre Foundation, Blevins Davis, president presents "Ballet Theatre," Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, directors, Alicia Alonso, Igor Youskevitch, John Kriza, Mary Ellen Moylan, Gemze de Lappe, Paula Lloyd, Ruth Ann Koesun, Eric Braun, Lillian Lanese, Michael Lland, Anna Cheselka, Jenny Workman, Kelly Brown, Dorothy Scott, Liane Plane, conductor Joseph Levine, regisseur Dimitri Romanoff, assistant conductor Otto Frohn, ballet master Edward Caton. "Les Sylphides," ballet by Michel Fokine, music by Frederic Chopin, orchestrated by Benjamin Britten, scenery by Eugene Dunkel after Jean Corot, conductor: Joseph Levine.
Notes: National Theatre, Friday, January 2-Sunday, January 4, 1953. Saturday matinee, January 3, 1953.

Title devised by Library staff.

"First performance by Ballet Theatre, Center Theatre, New York, January 11, 1940".

Cast: Mary Ellen Moylan, Ruth Ann Koesun, Paula Lloyd, Michael Lland, Liane Plane, Anna Cheselka, Misses Anderson, Atkins, Balzer, Grant, Gura, Horn, B. Lloyd, Mayer, Mirrow, Popper, Vickers, Watson, Workman, Unger.

With: Constantia / ballet by William Dollar. Issued together.

LC copy shelved under: Ballet theatre.

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