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Nutcracker or Casse-Noisette
Production: December 21st, 1958, BBC TV Presentation with Michael Somes
Music: Tchaikovsky
Producer: Margaret Dale
Choreography: Lev Ivanov, with additional choreography by Peter Wright Design: Guy Sheppard - sets; Jane Scrase Dickins - costumes
Character: The Sugar Plum Fairy
A headdress in the form of a tiara of silvered tendril design, with leaves and buds, the central faceted rhinestone surrounded by pink and blue leaves and rhinestone drops and buds; accompanied by four corresponding press photographs, three of Fonteyn and Somes in costume on stage performances, one dated [apparently erroneously] on the reverse 30 NOV 1959, two of the four photographs with Italian press credits on the reverse, largest -- 6½x14½in. (16.5x36.2cm.) and 9¾x11¾in. (24.8x29.8cm.) (5)
Production: December 21st, 1958, BBC TV Presentation with Michael Somes
Music: Tchaikovsky
Producer: Margaret Dale
Choreography: Lev Ivanov, with additional choreography by Peter Wright Design: Guy Sheppard - sets; Jane Scrase Dickins - costumes
Character: The Sugar Plum Fairy
A headdress in the form of a tiara of silvered tendril design, with leaves and buds, the central faceted rhinestone surrounded by pink and blue leaves and rhinestone drops and buds; accompanied by four corresponding press photographs, three of Fonteyn and Somes in costume on stage performances, one dated [apparently erroneously] on the reverse 30 NOV 1959, two of the four photographs with Italian press credits on the reverse, largest -- 6½x14½in. (16.5x36.2cm.) and 9¾x11¾in. (24.8x29.8cm.) (5)
Literature
MONEY, Keith The Making Of A Legend, Zurich: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1973, p.184 (illus.)
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