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Les Patineurs

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Les Patineurs

Choreography by Frederick Ashton
Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer (selections from the opera Le Prophete and L'Etoile du nord)
Arranged and Orchestrated by Constant Lambert
Scenery and Costumes by Cecil Beaton
Lighting by Nananne Porcher

World Premiere

Vic-Wells Ballet
February 16, 1937
Sadler’s Wells Theatre
London, England

Cast:
Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller, Harold Turner, Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Pamela May, June Brae

ABT Premiere

October 2, 1946
Broadway Theatre
New York, New York

Cast:
Cynthia Riseley (Girl in Pink)
Barbara Fallis (Girl in Yellow)
John Kriza (Boy in Green)
Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing (Lovers)
Diana Adams, Anna Cheselka (Friends)