Repertoire 1950-1959
Celia Franca in Lilac Garden
| 1951/52 | |||||
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| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| L'Après-midi d'un Faune | Claude Debussy | Celia Franca | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Ballet Behind Us | Miscellaneous | David Adams | Suzanne Mess | ||
| Ballet Composite | Johannes Brahms (Variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn) | David Adams | David Adams | ||
| Casse-Noisette: Act II | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Lev Ivanov | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Coppélia: Act II | Léo Delibes | Arthur Saint-Léon | James Pape | ||
| The Dance of Salomé | James Hartley, orchestrated by Oscar Morawetz |
Celia Franca | Robert Hall/Gerald Budner | ||
| Étude | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Kay Armstrong | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Giselle: Act II | Adolphe Adam | Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Pas de Deux from Don Quixote | Ludwig Minkus | Marius Petipa | |||
| Pas de Deux from Giselle | J.F. Burgmüller | Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot | |||
| Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Lev Ivanov | |||
| Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor | Alexander Borodin | Michel Fokine | Suzanne Mess/Alan Left | ||
| Les Sylphides | Frédéric Chopin | Michel Fokine | James Pape | ||
| 1952/53 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| Coppélia (Two Acts) | Léo Delibes | Arthur Saint-Léon | Kay Ambrose/James Pape | ||
| Giselle | Adolphe Adam, edited and arranged by Godfrey Ridout |
Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Lilac Garden | Ernest Chausson | Antony Tudor | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Le Pommier | Hector Gratton | Celia Franca | Kay Ambrose | ||
| 1953/54 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| Dark of the Moon | Louis Applebaum | Joey Harris | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Dances from the Classics | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Gala Performance | Serge Prokofiev | Antony Tudor | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Swan Lake: Act II | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov | Kay Ambrose | ||
| 1954/55 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| Offenbach in the Underworld | Jacques Offenbach, arranged by Harry Somers | Antony Tudor | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Swan Lake | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov, produced by Celia Franca | Kay Ambrose | ||
| 1955/56 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| The Nutcracker | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Celia Franca, after Lev Ivanov | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Dark Elegies | Gustav Mahler (Kindertotenlieder) | Antony Tudor, after original by Nadia Benois |
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| The Lady from the Sea | Saul Honigman | Elizabeth Leese | Jean de Belleval | ||
| 1956/57 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| The Fisherman and His Soul | Harry Somers | Grant Strate | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Giselle* | Adolphe Adam | Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot, produced by Celia Franca | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Jeune Pas de Deux | Jules Massenet | Grant Strate | Kay Ambrose | ||
| La Llamada | Julio Gomez | Ray Moller | Jesus de Vilallonga | ||
| Pas de Chance | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | David Adams | Kay Ambrose | ||
| Post Script | Arthur Morrow | Brian Macdonald | Ken Withers | ||
| Les Rendez-vous | Daniel François Auber |
Frederick Ashton | William Chappell | ||
| 1957/58 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| Le Carnaval | Robert Schumann, orchestrated by Oscar Morawetz | Michel Fokine | Kay Ambrose, after Léon Bakst | ||
| Dances from The Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Marius Petipa | Kay Ambrose | ||
| The Willow | Arthur Foote | Grant Strate | Michael Pittson | ||
| Winter Night | Sergei Rachmaninov | Walter Gore | Kay Ambrose | ||
| 1958/59 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| Ballad | Harry Somers | Grant Strate | Mark Negin | ||
| Coppélia* | Léo Delibes | after Arthur Saint-Léon, revived by Celia Franca | Kay Ambrose | ||
| 1959/60 | |||||
| Ballet | Music | Choreographer | Designer | Lighting Designer | |
| Death and the Maiden | Franz Schubert | Andrée Howard | Andrée Howard | ||
| The Littlest One | John Beckwith | David Adams | Cynthia MacLennan | ||
| The Mermaid | Maurice Ravel | Andrée Howard, in collaboration with Susan Salaman | Kay Ambrose, after Andrée Howard | ||
| Pas de Deux Romantique | Frédéric Chopin, orchestrated by George Crum | David Adams | James Ronaldson | ||
| Pineapple Poll | Arthur Sullivan, arranged by Charles Mackerras |
John Cranko | Osbert Lancaster | ||
* New Production