Performances

Performances

Company: Pupils of Madame Marie Rambert

The Fairy Queen (dances in the opera)

Choreographer: Frederick Ashton, Marie Rambert
Composer: Henry Purcell
Premiere type: World premiere
Music note: Danced to live music

Performers

ACT I
Dance of Fairies Andrée Howard
Dance of Fairies Eirene Garratt
Dance of Fairies Kathleen O'Connor
Dance of Fairies Prudence Hyman
Dance of Fairies Pearl Wellman
Dance of Fairies Joyce Peters
ACT II
Echo Dance Diana Gould
Dance of Fairies Andrée Howard
Dance of Fairies Eirene Garratt
Dance of Fairies Kathleen O'Connor
Dance of Fairies Prudence Hyman
Dance of Fairies Pearl Wellman
Dance of Fairies Joyce Peters
Dance of the Followers of Night Winifred Baker
Dance of the Followers of Night Eirene Garratt
Dance of the Followers of Night Kathleen O'Connor
Dance of the Followers of Night Pearl Wellman
ACT III
One of Three Swans Doola Baker
One of Three Swans Maud Lloyd
One of Three Swans Violet Reynolds
ACT IV
Attendant on Spring Diana Gould
Attendant on Spring Maud Lloyd
Attendant on Summer Pearl Wellman
Attendant on Summer Andrée Howard
Attendant on Autumn Doola Baker
Attendant on Autumn Eirene Garratt
ACT V
Dance of Monkeys William Chappell
Dance of Monkeys Kathleen O'Connor
Dance of Monkeys Joyce Peters
Chaconne Doola Baker
Chaconne Maud Lloyd
Chaconne Andrée Howard
Chaconne Pearl Wellman
Conductor Patrick Hadley
Performance note: In the production of the opera 'The Fairy Queen' by the Purcell Opera Society and Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Society, the dancers appeared in each of the five acts; only their names (not those of the singers) are listed here. The Rambert school is not named in the programme. This performance is the world premiere of the choreography, not of the opera.
Source: Programme for 23-24 June 1927 in the Rambert Archive