During the 1950s, Cranko created works for both the Covent Garden and Sadler’s Wells branches of The Royal Ballet: notably Antigone (1959), Bonne Bouche (1952) for Covent Garden, and The Lady and the Fool (1954). In 1957, he choreographed his first full-length ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas for Svetlana Beriosova and David Blair at Covent Garden, a work further distinguished by its score commissioned from Benjamin Britten. His creative energies extended into London’s West End where he produced two revues: Cranks (1955) and New Cranks (1960). He made two ballets for Rambert company, La Belle Helène for the Paris Opera Ballet, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet for the ballet of La Scala, Milan. In 1960, he went to Stuttgart to restage his The Prince and the Pagodas. This was to prove the turning point in his career.