Performance Database

Choreographer: Cecil Bates
Composer: Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
Set designer: Eli Montlake
Costume designer: Helen Biggar
World premiere: 17 Nov 1952, Ballet Rambert, Her Majesty's Theatre
Work note: This ballet was adapted for television by producer Patricia Foy and broadcast on the BBC on 28 December 1953.
Music title: Le Carnival des animaux (1886)
Music details: Live music: 2 pianos and orchestra
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0155

Performances

Date Programme Venue
17 Nov 1952
Evening 		Nutcracker Suite | The Lilac Garden | Carnival of the Animals* | Bar aux Folies-Bergère Her Majesty's Theatre, Brighton