A ballet by John Cranko to music by Verdi
With Svetlana Beriosova, Ronald Hynd and Ray Powell, David Shields, Peter Wright, Bob Stevenson and Pearl Gaden, Norman Dixon, Graham McCormack, Claudie Leonard, Norman McDowell, Gayrie McSween, John Massey, Yemaiel Oved, Ronald Reat, Anna Paskevska, David Scott, Prudence Rodney, Jeffery Taylor, Jenny Trevelyan, Derek Westlake, Virginia Wakelyn, Miro Zolan

Music recorded by the Royal Opera House Orchestra
(Leader, Charles Taylor)
Conducted by Charles Mackerras

The ballet tells the story of The Lady, a fascinating woman, who must choose between her three suitors, a wealthy man, a handsome man, and a Royal Prince: but she does not love them and rejects all the worldly things they can offer her for the simple love of a vagabond clown. The drama takes place during a ball in an Italian palace towards the middle of the last century.
'The Lady and the Fool', which was created for the Royal Ballet and first performed in 1954, is in the current repertory of the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

(Svetlana Beriosova, Ronald Hynd, Ray Powell, and the Royal Opera House Orchestra appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
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