MARGUERITE AND ARMAND

Ballet in one act and three scenes based on the Dumas La Dame aux Camélias - La Traviate tragic theme which Ashton choreographed solely for the Fonteyn-Nureyev partnership

ORIGINA PRODUCTION

Composer: Franz Liszt, orchestated by Humphrey Searle
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Designer: Cecil Beaton (set and costumes); new costumes by
William Chappell from 1975
Company: The Royal Ballet
Première: March 12, 1983, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, with Fonteyn and Nureyev, the first of 41
performances given at this location