Isabel Lambert Design Collection

Isabel Lambert front cloth design for Tiresias

This small collection of designs contains examples of all Isabel Lambert’s work for The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera, from 1951 to 1961. Lambert designed two ballets for Frederick Ashton, two for Alfred Rodrigues and a production of Richard Strauss’s opera Elektra. The collection includes examples of Lambert’s paintings and drawings of The Royal Ballet in rehearsal.

One of Isabel Lambert's design concepts for the front cloth of the ballet Tiresias © Isabel Lambert Estate