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The Royal Ballet production premiered at the Royal Opera House on 5 Mar 1975. Material comprises the printed record sleeve notes for a recording of Verdi's Complete Ballet Music by Decca, with handwritten notes by Kenneth MacMillan for The Four Seasons, including dancers' names (large)
There are nine greetings telegrams to Kenneth MacMillan wishing him good luck for the first night, including from John Neumeier, Peter and Sonya Wright, Romayne Grigorova, friends and colleagues at the Royal Opera House

Photographs showing Kenneth MacMillan in the wings with Hilda Gaunt, pianist with the Sadler's Wells Ballet, rehearsing Svetlana Beriosova and Donald MacLeary in Diversions, 1961, resting on a barre during rehearsals for Images of Love, 1964, rehearsing Lynn Seymour, 1980, with John Lanchbery and Richard Rodney Bennett during rehearsals for Diversions 1961, with Svetlana Beriosova, in rehearsal studio with Georgina Parkinson behind him (large)

Reviews of performances of Requiem, including one large of a triple bill, 2004, with a colour photograph of Carlos Accosta and Darcey Bussell

Articles about the making of and reviews of performances of Romeo and Juliet, including six large

Kenneth MacMillan had been a pupil at the Sadler's Wells, later The Royal Ballet School from 1945 to 1946.
The material in this file comprises a handwritten letter from Sherilyn Kennedy and the Concerto cast, thanking him for letting them perform his ballet, letters from Directors Michael Wood, James Monahan, Merle Park and Norman Morrice. There is an invitation to a Garden Party at White Lodge to celebrate the 80th birthday of Ninette de Valois, n.d but 1978, and a three page Director's Report to the Governors of The Royal Ballet, 30 Mar 1981

Reviews of performances of Song of the Earth, including one large review from the New York Times about Darcey Bussell's farewell performance, with colour photographs, 2007

The Royal Opera House commissioned Nigel Gosling (Alexander Bland) to write a history of The Royal Ballet as part of the celebrations for the Company's 50th anniversary. This file contains a letter from Nigel Gosling to Kenneth MacMillan asking some specific questions, 21 Jan 1980, and a letter from Ken Davison enclosing pages from the book and asking for comments which has pencil notes by Deborah MacMillan on it expressing Kenneth MacMillan's concerns, 6 Feb 1980. The 35 pages of Gosling's text have some corrections by Ken Davison, and question marks in pencil and a couple of one word comments by Kenneth MacMillan in the margins