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Kenneth MacMillan was invited to present an evening of one act ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet in 1978. This file contains 12 pages of Kenneth MacMillan's handwritten notes about each ballet with four photocopies of typed descriptions of the ballets written by Kenneth MacMillan

Fax from Julia Matheson to Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan giving details of Irek Mukhamedov and Company tour in April 1992 with list of venues, dancers and the programme which includes the Summer pas de deux from The Four Seasons, 31 Mar 1992

Photographs of The Paris Opera Ballet in Metaboles, The Four Seasons and Song of the Earth, and one photograph of Kenneth MacMillan rehearsing dancers

Barry Kay provided the designs for the new production of The Four Seasons mounted by Kenneth MacMillan for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1978. These two pages of drawings in pen and ink are for the characters that announce the seasons. Summer is led by Pan with three dwarf attendants, two centaurs and a child centaur; Autumn is led by Pomone with a child attendant, six attendants drawing Bacchus on a canon and three grotesque children; Winter is led by Diana with two cherubs, four attendants carrying a male dancer as a lion in a cage with a further four attendants helping to carry the cage; Spring is led by Venus with six attendants and Cupid.

Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet The Four Seasons for The Royal Ballet which premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 5 Mar 1975. The ballet was subsequently staged by the Paris Opera Ballet at the Theatre de l'Opera de Paris in 1978 with new designs

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