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Hamlet-13 December 1948 Evening

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Ballet: Performance details

Company: Sadler's Wells Ballet
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Warwick Braithwaite
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Cast
The King of Denmark Leslie Edwards
Hamlet
his nephew, the late King's son 		Robert Helpmann
Polonius
the Lord Chamberlain 		Paul Reymond
Laertes
son to Polonius 		Richard Ellis
The Gravedigger Alexander Grant
The Ghost of Hamlet's father Franklin White
Queen of Denmark
Hamlet's mother 		Beryl Grey
Ophelia
daughter to Polonius 		Pauline Clayden
A Page Dorothea Zaymes
Court Lady Rosemary Lindsay
Court Lady Christine du Boulay
Court Lady Palma Nye
Court Lady Lorna Mossford
Court Lady Wendy Winn
Court Lady Jean Stokes
Court Lady Margaret Sear
Court Lady Thekla Russell
Court Lady Rowena Jackson
Court Lady Rosemary Valaire
Pall-bearer Alfred Rodrique
Pall-bearer Bryan Ashbridge
Pall-bearer Robert Lunnon
Pall-bearer Kenneth MacMillan
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Event: Number 2 in Sadler's Wells Ballet mixed programme 13 December 1948
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 13 December 1948 (in Royal Opera House Collections)