London's Festival Ballet - Royal Festival Hall - Summer Season 1963 Programme

A copy programme of London's Festival Ballet Summer season 1963

PROGRAMME

Week commencing Monday, 15th July, 1963 Evenings at 8.00 p.m.: Saturday 5.00 and 8.00 p.m.

Peer Gynt

Ballet in 3 acts and 10 scenes

Freely adapted from the drama of Henrik Ibsen by Vaslaw Orlikowsky

Music by Edvard Grieg

Choreography and Production by Vaslaw Orlikowsky

Scenery designed and painted by Edward Delany Costumes designed by Yvonne Lloyd and executed by de Rachelle (London) Personal assistant to the choreographer, Vassilie Trunoff

ACT 1.

Scene 1: Aase's Farm

Scene 2: The Fiance's Farm Ingrid's marriage

Scene 3: In the mountains

Scene 4 In the Hall of the Mountain King

INTERVAL

Warning bells will be rung five minutes before the rise of the curtain

ACT 2.

Scene 1: Aase's Farm

Scene 2 In Egypt

Scene 3: The Lunatic Asylum

OVERTURE

ACT 3.

Scene 1: The Norwegian Winter

Scene 2: The Road to the Cemetery

Scene 3: In the Mountain

CAST

• Peer Gynt - 
• John Gilpin (Monday, Tuesday, Friday; Saturday 8.00 p.m.)
• Karl Musil (Wednesday, Thursday; Saturday 5.00 p.m.)
• Aase, his mother - Angela Bishopp
• The Neighbours - Stella Orton, Geraldine Long, Julia Poole, Leila Zorina
• The Violinist - Jeffrey Kovel
• Ingrid - Marilyn Burr
• Her Mother - Janet Lewis
• Her Father - Peter White
• Her Bridegroom - Vassilie Trunoff
• Her Friends - Gillian Shane, Carol Yule
• Solveig - 
• Irene Skorik (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday; Saturday 8.00 p.m.)
• Gaye Fulton (Thursday; Saturday 5.00 p.m.)
• Her Mother - Joysanne Sidimus
• Her Father - Jean Pierre-Alban
• Little Helga, her Sister - Rosemary Booth or Derinda Smith
• The Shepherdesses - Carmen Mathe, Denise Le Comte, Gaye Fulton or Joan Potter
• The Green Lady - 
• Irina Borowska (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; Saturday 8.00 p.m.)
• Genia Melikova (Saturday 5.00 p.m.)
• The Troll King - Jean Pierre-Alban
• A Troll-Imp - Neil Fitzwilliam
• Trolls - 
• Rosemary Toombs, Dudley von Loggenburg, Cristina Stirling,
• Jean Paul-Comelin, Nona Telford, Desmond Kelly, Margaret Dew.
• Keith Maidwell
• An English Lady - Joan Potter
• Anitra - Olga Ferri
• Her escort - Jean Paul-Comelin
• A Mad Women - Estella Nova
• The Skaters - Carmen Mathe, David Shields and Gaye Fulton or Carol Yule, Desmond Kelly, Nona Telford, Dudley von Loggenburg
• Button-Moulder. (Death) - John Auld
• Villagers, the Court of the Mountain King, Peasants, Egyptians, Lunatics,
• Skaters, Mourners, etc.

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (Leader: Henry Datyner)

Conducted by AUBREY BOWMAN (Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 8.00 p.m.)

DONALD ELLIOTT (Wednesday, Thursday; Saturday 5.00 p.m.)

In good used condition for it's age with some marks and creases. See photos for condition.