The Ballet Theatre 1945 - 46 Tour Programs Marc Chagall Cover, Royal Opera House
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The ballet theatre~Coastto Coast Tour1945-1946SouvenirProgram 94 pages in color & Black and white&Programspecific to ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN 194632 pages.Bothprograms include detailed profiles, photographs, and history of the BalletTheatre.ProducedbyLUCIACHASE and OLIVER SMITH(Publishedby Charles Payne)“BalletThere inaugurated its first season at the Rockefeller Center Theatre in NewYork City in January 1940. Since then ithas performed at the Metropolit...an Opera House and toured throughout the UnitedStates, Canada, and Mexico.Thefounders of the Ballet Theatre were inspired by two ideas; to collect anddisplay ballet masterpieces of alltimes, places and creators and to become a contemporary Lorenzo di Medici tochoreographers, designers and composers who require as material a company forcreating classics of tomorrow.In pursuingthese ideals, Ballet Theatre has employed the talents of every Choreographer ofnote in residence in the United States and has developed new choreographerswho, we believe has instilled the temp and spirit of American into the art ofthe ballet.Since itsinception, Ballet Theatre has looked forward to the day when it could exhibitits works in the Historic Royal Opera House before the world’s mostappreciative ballet audience. WEearnestly hope this engagement will prove to be the first in a long series ofvisits by the Ballet Theatre to Covent Garden.”~RepertoryAPOLLO, BLUEBEARD, FANCY FREE, GALA PERFORMANCE, GISELLE, GRAZIANA, HELEN OF TROY, INTERPLAY, LILAC GARDEN, &&Artists.AndreEglevsky, Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing, Alicia Alonso. John Kriza, Lucia Chase, Dimitri Roman off, Jerome Robbins, Michael KiddMuriel Bentley, Donald Saddler, Barbara Fallis, Diana Adams, ShirleyEckl, Fernando Alonso, Stanley Herbert, CynthiaRisely, Kenneth Davis, Robert De VoyeMaryHeater, Doreen Oswald, Roy Tobias, Paula Lloyd, Dick Beard, Mildred Herman, Enrica Solma, Anna Cheselka, Eric Braun, Erik Kristen, Zachary Solov, Ruth AnnKoesun, Barbara Cole, Shellie Filkins, Jean Dovell, Frances Rainer, BarbaraSteeleChoreographers.MichelFokine, Antony Tudor, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, Agnes De Mille, GeorgeBlanachine, Bronislava Nijinska, Mikhail Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, Eugene Loring, Jerome Robbins, David Lichine, Michael Kidd, John Taras, Simon Semenoff~ANTONYTUDOR, Artistic AdministratorMax Goberman, Musical DirectorBen Steinberg, Conductor~Covers chipped on edges, small tears on one cover, all pages are intact. Creasing, corners and edges bumped.Cover on larger program are loose but present. Text, photographs and dramatic color advertisements are all bright and clean.
