Facade

Metropolitan Opera House, The Covent Garden Opera Trust, general administrator: David L. Webster, in association with The Arts Council of Great Britain and the British Council presents "The Sadler's Wells Ballet," from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under the management of S. Hurok, director: Ninette De Valois, principal choreographer: Frederick Ashton, musical director: Robert Irving, artistic direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert, conductors: John Hollingsworth, Robert Irving, guest conductor: Robert Zeller, "Facade," a ballet freely adapted to music originally written as a setting to poems by Eidth Sitwell, music by William Walton (by arrangement with Oxford University Press), choreography by Frederick Ashton, scenery and costumes by John Armstrong, conductor: Robert Zeller, first produced for the Camargo Society April 26, 1941, first produced by Sadler's Wells Ballet, 1935.