Performances

Performances

Schwanda the Bagpiper (dances in the opera)

Choreographer: Antony Tudor
Composer: Jaromir Weinberger
Premiere type: World premiere

Performers

Dancer Maude Lloyd
Dancer Antony Tudor
Dancer Elisabeth Schooling
Dancer Peggy van Praagh
Dancer Travis Kemp
Conductor Robert Heger
Performance note: Ballet Rambert dancers performed in this production of Weinberger's opera by the Covent Garden Opera Company. The ballet company is not named in the programme. Only the dancers (not the singers) are listed on this record. This performance is the world premiere of the choreography, not of the opera.
Source: Photocopy of the programme for 3 June 1935 in the Rambert Archive and full programme in Royal Opera House Collections