Variations on a Theme of Purcell
by Frederick Ashton 1955
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Music title: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell ('The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'), Op. 34
Set designer: Peter Snow
Costume designer: Peter Snow
Lighting designer: John Sullivan
World premiere: 6 January 1955, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
One act ballet