A Wedding Bouquet-2 May 1951 Evening 7.00pm

Ballet: Performance details

Company:	Sadler's Wells Ballet
Venue:	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status:	Revival
Conductor	John Hollingsworth
Leader	Thomas Matthews

Cast
Webster 'Webster was a name that was spoken'		April Olrich
Peasant Girl		Fiorella Keane
Peasant Girl		Sheila Nelson
Peasant Boy 'They must hurry and get their waggon'		Douglas Steuart
Peasant Boy 'They must hurry and get their waggon'		Brian Shaw
Josephine 'She may be wearing a gown newly washed and pressed'		Rosemary Valaire
Paul 'Pleasant, vivacious and quarrelsome'		Gilbert Vernon
John 'An elder brother who regrets the illness of his father'		Franklin White
Violet 'She may be delightful or not, as it happens'		Julia Farron
Ernest 'May be a victim of himself'		Ray Powell
Therese 'Will be faintly neat'		Gerd Larsen
Julia 'Is known as forlorn'		Anne Heaton
Bridegroom 'They all speak as if they expected him not to be charming'		John Hart
Pépé (Julia's dog) 'Little dogs resemble little girls'		Pauline Clayden
Arthur 'Very well I thank you'		Leslie Edwards
Guy 'Unknown'		Alexis Rassine
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Wendy Winn
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Lorna Mossford
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Christine du Boulay
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Rosemary Lindsay
Gendarme 'They make preparations to deal with an exception'		Henry Legerton
Gendarme 'They make preparations to deal with an exception'		Peter Clegg
Bride 'Charming! Charming! Charming!'		Margaret Dale
Bridesmaid 'They may recognise places'		Jill Gregory
Bridesmaid 'They may recognise places'		Dorothea Zaymes
Orator		Robert Irving
		The Covent Garden Orchestra

Durations:	Entire work: 8.49-9.18pm
Event:	Number 3 in Sadler's Wells Ballet mixed programme 2 May 1951
Information source:	Royal Opera House programme for 2 May 1951 (in Royal Opera House Collections)

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