Metropolitan Ballet

Metropolitan Ballet was a short lived British ballet company. Founded in 1947 by Cecelia Blatch and Leon Hepner, the company performed in London and on tour in the provinces and abroad, staging shortened versions of the classics, some of the Diaghilev ballets, and new works by Victor Gsovsky (who was the company’s first ballet master), Andrée Howard, Frank Staff and John Taras.

Metropolitan Ballet

Metropolitan Ballet was a short lived British ballet company. Founded in 1947 by Cecelia Blatch and Leon Hepner, the company performed in London and on tour in the provinces and abroad, staging shortened versions of the classics, some of the Diaghilev ballets, and new works by Victor Gsovsky (who was the company’s first ballet master), Andrée Howard, Frank Staff and John Taras.