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Petrushka-11 February 1960 Evening

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Ballet: Performance details

Company: The Royal Ballet
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Hugo Rignold
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
The Ballerina Nadia Nerina
Petrushka Alexander Grant
The Blackamoor Peter Clegg
The Showman Franklin White
The 'Grandfather' of the fair Stanley Holden
Street dancing-girl Doreen Wells
Street dancing-girl Brenda Bolton
The young merchant Leslie Edwards
Gypsy girl Gerd Larsen
Gypsy girl Georgina Parkinson
The first nursemaid Rosemary Lindsay
An other nursemaid Christine Beckley
An other nursemaid Hylda Zinkin
An other nursemaid Vyvyan Lorrayne
An other nursemaid Deanne Bergsma
An other nursemaid Meriel Evans
An other nursemaid Monica Mason
An other nursemaid Doreen Eastlake
An other nursemaid Patricia Thorogood
A coachman of the Imperial Court Harold Turner
An other coachman Ronald Plaisted
An other coachman Derek Rencher
An other coachman Christopher Newton
An other coachman Maurice Metliss
Stable boy Ray Powell
Stable boy Keith Milland
Masqueraders
The Devil Clive Molloy
The coachman dressed as a nursemaid John Sale
The Pig Lawrence Ruffell
The Fox Lambert Cox
The Polish maidservant Clover Roope
The Hussar Robin Haig
The Scullion Mavis Osborn
Monster Kenneth Barlow
Monster Kenneth Mason
The Goat Bryan Lawrence
The Crane Petrus Bosman
The Calf Douglas Steuart
The Crow Richard Farley
The crowd: hawkers, officers, soldiers, gentlemen, ladies, children, nursemaids, cossacks, policemen, a bear-trainer, etc.
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Event: Number 2 in The Royal Ballet mixed programme 11 February 1960
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 11 February 1960 (in Royal Opera House Colections)