£37.50
Date 18/08/1949
London Royal Opera House Sadler Wells Ballet Margot Fonteyn 1949
An original ballet programme for Le Lac Des Cygnes (Swan Lake) at the Royal Opera House, London, dated 18 August 1949, with a newspaper article cutting included.
The cast includes a young Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer, Avril Navarre and Franklyn Whie. Fonteyn and Helpmann were the great partnership of the company in the post-war years.
With three ballet legends named, this is a superb piece of dance and theatre memorabilia from Covent Garden.
| Production | Le Lac Des Cygnes |
|---|---|
| Venue | Royal Opera House – London |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, a corner fold, slrs
Did you know?
- Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, in 1877.
- The Sadler’s Wells Ballet became the resident company at the Royal Opera House in 1946.
- Moira Shearer starred in the 1948 film The Red Shoes.
SKU: T03010
