Title: Swan Lake
Date: Saturday 29th June 1974, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Bolshoi Ballet
Location: London Coliseum, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich after Alexander Gorsky, Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa
Production: Yuri Grigorovich’s 1969 production
Conductor: Mark Ermler
Collection Number: 2401197402

Cast

Odette/Odile: Svetlana Adyrkhaeva
Queen Mother: Alla Boguslavskaya
Prince Siegfried: Maris Liepa
Von Rothbart: Boris Akimov
Prince’s Tutor: Anatoli Simachev
Jester: Valeri Antonov
Attendants of the Prince: Tatiana Bessmertnova, Marina Leonova
Hungarian: Marina Leonova
Russian: Tatiana Gavrilova
Spanish: Tatiana Bessmertnova
Neapolitan: Elena Matveyeva
Polish: Irina Vozianova
Three Swans: Ida Vasilieva, Maria Karnaukhova, Elena Matveyeva
Four Swans: Elena Bunina, Lilia Shuvalova, Tatiana Popko, Lubov Sedova
Waltz: Elena Bobrova, Maria Karnaukhova, Nina Sokolova, Elena Kholina, Anatali Danilichov, Alexei Zakalinsky, Oleg Rachkovsky, Vladimir Nikitin

Orchestra

First Violins:
John Georgiadis (Leader)
Diana Cummings
Helen Brown
Ben Carpenter
George Edwards
Chumleigh Hind
Ronald Lockwood
Ellen Martin
Alla Sharova
Brian Underwood
Daphne Wakeham
Yvonne Wooldridge

Second Violins:
Brenda Cullity
Mary Leaf
Beryl Auty
Gillian Bailey
Julie Gelson
Bridget Hirst
Keith Lewis
Garth Morton
Alan Pook
Rupert Scott

Violas:
Luciano Jorio
Mary Samuel
Pauline Mack
John Denman
Myrna Edwards
Graham Griffiths
William Jones
Eryl Perkins
Ruth Treloar

Cellos:
Geoffrey Thomas
Melvin Gale
Myra Chahin
Sheila Grogan
Christine Macrae
Eileen McCarthy

Basses:
Emmanuel Shulman
Geoffrey Downs
Joseph Kirby
Gareth Wood

Flutes:
Elmer Cole
Simon Hunt

Piccolo:
Veronica Hatten

Oboes:
John Clementson
Joan Whiting

Cor Anglais:
Geoffrey Brown
Michael Jeans

Clarinets:
Wilfred Goddard
Patrick Saunders

Bass Clarinet:
Alfred Wallbank

Bassoons:
Brian Wightman
Brian Sewell

Horns:
James Diack
Dennis Scard
Charles Bloomfield
George Woodcock

Trumpets:
Clifford Haines
Colin Clague
Michael Hinton
Stephen Hetherington

Trombones:
James Ketchen
Anthony Moore

Bass Trombone:
Leslie Lake

Tuba:
John Smith

Timpani:
Robert Howes

Percussion:
Stephen Henderson
Peter Greenham
Ronald McCrea

Harps:
David Dunn
Fiona Hibbert

Piano/Celeste:
John Parry

Crew

For Swan Lake

Producer: Yuri Grigorovich
Designer: Suliko Virsaladze

For the Bolshoi Ballet

Director and Administrator: Kyril Malchanov
Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
Chief Designer: Suliko Virsaladze
Principal Ballet Mistress: Galina Ulanova
Ballet Director: Piotr Khomutov
Chief Administrator: Vladimir Levko
Stage Director: Victor Zavitayev
Chief Electrician and Lighting Designer: Boris Lelukhin
Stage Managers: Alexander Sokolov, Alexander Tsarman, Yuri Ignatov
Concert Masters: Vladimir Kudriavstev, Lev Kapralov
Concert Mistress: Elena Barsanova
Ballet Master: Nikolai Simachev
Ballet Mistress: Lydia Khliustova

For the London Coliseum

Manager Director: Lord Harewood
Administrative Director: Rupert Rhymes
House Manager: Charles Kraus
Assistant House Manager: Kenneth Baird
Box Office Manager: John Ball
Technical Director: John Harrison
Orchestra Administrator: Raymond Gubbay
Orchestral Manager: Robert Jolley
Press Officer: Helen Salomon
Publicity Officer: Richard Jarman
Bolshoi Ballet Season Coordinator: Peter Bentley-Stephens
Company Liaison: Stephen W. Wright

Programme Printed By: Battley Brothers Printers Ltd.

Notes

Per the Cast Insert, Marina Leonova replaced Tatiana Cherkasskaya as a Prince’s Attendant, and Irina Vozianova replaced Tatiana Cherkasskaya as Polish. Lilia Shuvalova then replaced Irina Vozianova as one of Four Cygnets.

Additional Material: Two tickets for the performance, Seats G45 and G46 in the Upper Circle