15:15

The Nutcracker

Sun 29^th Mar 1959, 15:15 on BBC Television

A fairy ballet with music by Tchaikovsky.
[Starring] Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes
Choreography after Ivanov by Peter Wright
Music recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader, Steven Staryk), conducted by Hugo Rignold

(Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Harold Turner, and Hugo Ringold appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd; Lucette Aldous and Norman Dixon by permission of Ballet Rambert.)
(BBC recording)
(Previously televised on December 21, 1958)

Contributors

Music:: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Producer:: Margaret Dale
Choreography:: Peter Wright
Musicians:: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra leader:: Steven Staryk
Conductor:: Hugo Rignold
Costumes designed by:: Jane Scrase-Dickins
Designer:: Guy Sheppard
President Silberhaus:: Harold Turner
His wife:: Jean Bedells
Their children - Clara:: Sandra Michaels
Their children - Franz:: Sam Jephcott
Butler:: Norman Dixon
Councillor Drosselmeyer:: Claude Newman
Mouse King:: Bob Stevenson
Snow Queen:: Lucette Aldous
Spanish Dance:: Sara Luzita
Spanish Dance:: Bob Stevenson
Spanish Dance:: Yvonne Cartier
Arabian Dance:: Sheila O'Neill
Arabian Dance:: Rudi Szigeti
Arabian Dance:: Charles Schuller
Arabian Dance:: Graham McCormack
Chinese Dance:: Norman Dixon
Chinese Dance:: Christopher Lyall
Russian Dance:: Patrick Hurd
Russian Dance:: Miro Zolan
Russian Dance:: Roger Tully
Dance of the Reed Pipes:: Lucette Aldous
Dance of the Reed Pipes:: Patricia Ashworth
Dance of the Reed Pipes:: Maria Butler
Dance of the Reed Pipes:: Hazel Merry
Dance of the Reed Pipes:: Jeannette Osborne

Source: Radio Times

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