gala performance

One evening the court was to attend a gala performance to be given in the Tuileries.

I have all kinds of engagements, and you have forgotten that my box is taken for the gala performance of the opera on Monday.

On arrival at Kiev, where the Emperor had arranged to review the troops, a gala performance was held in the theatre that night.

Last evening there was a gala performance at the Grand Opéra for the blasé Shah.

That same evening there was a gala performance at the Opera.