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Antigone-20 October 1959 Evening

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Ballet: Performance details

Company: The Royal Ballet
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Hugo Rignold
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Oedipus
the dying King of Thebes 		Leslie Edwards
Jocasta
his wife, the Queen 		Julia Farron
Polynices
one of their children 		David Blair
Etiocles
one of their children 		Gary Burne
Antigone
one of their children 		Svetlana Beriosova
Creon
brother to the Queen 		Michael Somes
Haemon
his son, and the lover of Antigone 		Donald MacLeary
People of Thebes Merle Park
People of Thebes Doreen Wells
People of Thebes Antoinette Sibley
People of Thebes Shirley Grahame
People of Thebes Debra Wayne
People of Thebes Brenda Bolton
People of Thebes Ann Howard
People of Thebes Mavis Osborn
People of Thebes Clover Roope
People of Thebes Dorothea Zaymes
People of Thebes Margaret Lyons
People of Thebes Robin Haig
People of Thebes Brenda Taylor
People of Thebes Christine Beckley
People of Thebes Jacqueline Daryl
People of Thebes Vyvyan Lorrayne
People of Thebes Doreen Eastlake
People of Thebes Patricia Thorogood
People of Thebes Hylda Zinkin
People of Thebes Audrey Henderson
People of Thebes Pirmin Trecu
People of Thebes Peter Clegg
People of Thebes Christopher Newton
People of Thebes Richard Farley
People of Thebes William Wilson
People of Thebes Douglas Steuart
People of Thebes Stanley Holden
People of Thebes John Sale
People of Thebes Lambert Cox
People of Thebes Keith Milland
People of Thebes Clive Molloy
People of Thebes Lawrence Ruffell
People of Thebes Derek Rencher
People of Thebes Keith Rosson
People of Thebes Kenneth Barlow
People of Thebes Bryan Lawrence
People of Thebes Ronald Plaisted
People of Thebes Kenneth Mason
People of Thebes Robert de Warren
People of Thebes Maurice Metliss
Death Herald Austin Bennet
Death Herald Michael Betts
Death Herald Geoffrey Corser
Death Herald David Jones
Death Herald David Gordon
Death Herald Gary Sherwood
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Event: Number 2 in The Royal Ballet mixed programme 20 October 1959
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 20 October 1959 (in Royal Opera House Collections)