Covent Garden Russian Ballet Company, New Zealand tour, 1939 [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 4560418
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Cold Store Row A3/1/4 [PIC COV A] Folder 1 #PIC/12621 copy
- Description:
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- 1939
- 1 negative : acetate, b&w ; 4.7 x 23.3 cm.
- Summary:
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"The Covent Garden Russian Ballet Company arrived in Auckland by boat from Australia on 1 February. After performing in Auckland and Palmerston North they travelled to Wellington by train and opened there on 18 February. A cropped version of the photograph first appeared in the newspaper 'The Dominion' (Wellington) on 24 February, 1939. Photograph includes 74 people including dancers, members of the tour's management and backstage team, and musicians from the orchestra. It does not include the entire company as several male dancers who were in the company are not included"--Information from acquisitions documentation.
Back row L to R: Borislav Runanine, Lorand Andahazay, Alberto Alonso, unknown, Medric Fraillon (musician), unknown, Jack Wittmer (musician), four males unknown, Serge Bousloff, Vsevolod Grigoriev (management), Serge Ismailoff, unknown, Marian Ladre, Georges Georghieff (production staff), Oleg Tupine, Boris Belsky, Valentin Zeglovsky, unknown, Edouard Sobiechevsky, Narcisse Matouchak, Madame Tchinerova (wardrobe), Algeranoff, Valery Shaievsky, Irina Kosmovska, Helene Wolksa, Haydn Beck (musician), Gabriel Joffe. Middle row L to R: Olga Larosse (wardrobe), Dimitri Rostov, Kira Strakhova, Vera Nelidova, Lubov Tchernicheva, Yura Lazofsky, Ana Roje, Edouard Borovansky, Dot Mendoza (musician), Serge Grigoriev (Regisseur general), Galina Razoumova, Anton Dolin, Tamara Grigorieva, Victor Dandre (management), Tatiana Riabouchinska, Michel Fokine (choreographer), Irina Baronova, German Sevastianov (management), Anna Volkova, Antal Dorati (conductor), Tamara Tchinarova, Raissa Kouznetsova, Kira Abricossova, Irina Vassilieva, Irina Bondireva, Wanda Grossen, Lisa Serova, Lara Obidenna. Front row L to R: Bill Honey (musician), Sono Osato, Natasha Sobinova, Alexandra Denisova, Lina Lerina, Ludmilla Lvova, Maria Sanina, Lelia Roussova, Arthur Leeman (musician).
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisitions documentation.
- PIC Cold Store Row A3/1/4 [PIC COV A] Folder 1 #PIC/12621 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137397933
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated by Brigitte Kelly (stage name, Maria Sanina) 2009.
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1939
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