Sylvia

Ballet: Work details

Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Composer: Léo Delibes
Music title: Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (1876)
Work definition: Ballet in three acts
Based on: Based on the original libretto by Jules Barbier and Baron de Reinach and on the poem 'Aminta' by Torquato Tasso
World premiere: 3 September 1952, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
ROH premiere: 3 September 1952, Sadler's Wells Ballet
ROH company premiere: 3 September 1952, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Productions
Sylvia (1952) Sadler's Wells Ballet (79 performances online)
Sylvia (1963) The Royal Ballet Touring Company (1 performance online)

Performances not linked to a production
10 March 1959 Evening Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London