Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC1062 THE PRINCE OF THE PAGODAS

• Date: 1 Jan 1957 >>
  Location: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

  Type of performance: Staged performance

  
  

  World Premiere

  Incomplete Performance

  
  

  Performers and other details:

  Sadler's Wells Ballet. Svetlana Beriosova Belle Rose, Julia Farron Belle Epine, David Blair The prince, Leslie Edwards The Emperor of the middle kingdom, Pirmin Tecu The fool, Ray Powell The dwarf, Covent Garden Orchestra

  John Cranko choreog, John Piper design, Desmond Heeley costumes, William Bundy lighting, Benjamin Britten cond