Robert Irving (conductor)
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Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.
Robert Irving, signed photograph
Margot Fonteyn
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Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, now known as the Ro
Robert Irving (conductor)
…Alexander Glazunov for a "grand pas de quatorze" by Ashton, Birthday Offering. In 1954 he introduced and conducted music from Act II of Swan Lake with Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes for television, and in 1958 for BBC television he conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra in Les Sylphides with Nadia Nerina and Philip…
Fonteyn in the 1960s
Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn, Façade (1936)
Fonteyn and Helpmann, The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells 1950 U.S. tour
At a rehearsal for The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953 (at the time known as Toast of the Town)