The Vic-Wells Ballet (under the direction of Ninette de Valois) present..
A ballet based on the fairy tale by Perrault. Reproduced by Nicolai Sergueeff after the original choreography by Marius Petipa.
With Margot Fonteyn as The Princess Aurora, June Brae as The Lilac Fairy, and Robert Helpmann as Prince Charming.
Also Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller, Pamela May, Ursula Moreton, Joy Newton, Julia Farron, Harold Turner, Frederick Ashton, William Chappell, Frank Staff, John Greenwood, Bruce Dargavel, and other members of the Vic-Wells Company. The Lord Mayor's Boy Players, the Augmented BBC Television Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker, conducted by Constant Lambert.
(to 16.15)