State performance
Subtitle: by command of His Majesty the King in honour of the visit of the President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun ...
Contributors: London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vic-Wells Ballet; Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893; Whistler, Rex, 1905-1944; Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991
Publisher: Royal Opera House
Published: 1939
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Other titles: By command of His Majesty the King in honour of the visit of the President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun; Royal Opera Covent Garden
Notes: Program for the Royal Command Performance on March 22, 1939, which included performances of Acts. 1 and 3 of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping princess and Iberia by Debussey; cut in the shape of a scalloped cartouche; printed in red and black; cover embossed and with an elaborate pictorial illustration encorporating the arms of Britain and France by Rex Whistler; with Whistler's sun design on back; braided gold ties.

Ballet performed by the Vic-Wells ballet and music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; dancers included Margot Fonteyn.

Cover title: Royal Opera Covent Garden MCMXXXIX Mar. 22.

"Programme produced by Finden Brown and Co., Ltd., London"--Colophon.