dirac Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Rowena Jackson has died at age 98. Statement from the Royal Opera House. Quote ........Her roles for the Company included Odette/Odile (Petipa and Ivanov’s Swan Lake), the title role of Perrot, Petipa and Coralli’s Giselle, which she performed with her husband Philip Chatfield as Albrecht in 1958, Blue Bird and Aurora (Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty), The Fairy Autumn (Ashton’s Cinderella), The Queen of Fire (Ashton’s Homage to the Queen), Swanilda and Aurora (Petipa, Cecchetti, Ivanov and Sergeyev’s Coppélia) and Columbine (André Howard’s Veneziana). She also regularly appeared in ballets including Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloë, Sylvia, Scènes de ballet, Les Patineurs and Tiresias, Petit’s Ballabile, Fokine’s Les Sylphides, Massine’s Mam’zelle Angot, Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial and De Valois’ Checkmate. Ashton wrote solos for her in Variations on a Theme of Purcell and Birthday Offering. Link to comment
dirac Posted August 26 Author Share Posted August 26 From left to right: Svetlana Beriosova, Jackson, Elaine Fifield, Fonteyn, Nadia Nerina, Violetta Elvin, Beryl Grey. Link to comment
dirac Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 59 minutes ago, atm711 said: Nostalgic!! I saw them all in my day! Lucky you! I see Jackson was born in 1926, the same year as Shearer. Link to comment
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