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Pavarotti once got 165 curtain calls, which dwarfs your baseball cap count.

It was only natural that it rained during the curtain calls: with confetti.

There are no curtain calls, as if the work, as it ends, has really vanished.

A sizable contingent of the audience booed him and the production team during curtain calls.

It is a standing ovation for a long time as the singers do multiple curtain calls.

The signature aria calls for nine impossibly effortless high Cs, and Pavarotti received a record seventeen curtain calls.

At its premiere, at the Craig Theater on West 54th Street, it received 33 curtain calls, de Mille reports.

Over time, curtain calls grew to include underscoring, bits of comic business or a brief reprise of a beloved song.

Mr. Hvorostovsky gave a magnificent performance, and during final curtain calls he was showered with white roses thrown by orchestra members.

Tiler Peck was his ballerina in this "Theme"; at one of their several curtain calls, she suddenly embraced him in a hug.

She was striking onstage, with strong features, wavy black hair and a grand manner that could burst into flamboyance during curtain calls.

While the finale never got all the way to a boil, I did thoroughly relish the supporting characters getting their individual curtain calls.

Ditto Graham: for curtain calls, she sometimes had to be carried out in a chair and placed onstage before the curtain was opened.

During the curtain calls, the cast and creative team donned T-shirts reading "Free Kirill," to a standing ovation from some of the audience.

He even joined the exceptional cast and the conductor Sebastian Weigle onstage during curtain calls, which is unusual for a 17-year-old production.

As the members of the cast came out for their curtain calls, they seemed more interested in applauding Mr. Levine than in receiving applause themselves.

She wound up beating out 216 other girls, and on opening night she, Anne Bancroft (who played teacher Annie Sullivan) and their castmates received 21984 curtain calls.

The curtain calls, bows and ceremony that followed left nobody in any doubt of the high (and high-spirited) regard in which Mr. De Luz is held.

For curtain calls, he quickly changes into what he calls his "Mao suit," sweats through that, then escapes offstage for a cognac or whiskey and a shower.

During an interview this week, he was happy to answer questions about details and symbolic motifs that had some people scratching their heads long after the curtain calls.

Twelve hundred miles away, an hour or so later, about three dozen shows would take curtain calls on Broadway, and many of their casts would bow to thunderous applause.

When Ms. Piper took her curtain calls on Tuesday night, she had the stunned, brutalized look of someone who had been through war and wasn't yet sure if she'd won.

After the final curtain calls that night, Brandon Victor Dixon, the actor who portrays Aaron Burr, stepped forward with a microphone to directly address Mr. Pence, who was leaving the theater.

Hillary Clinton's getting used to making Broadway curtain calls -- and after the standing ovation she got Wednesday night ... it's feeling like New Yorkers are trying to push her into the Mayor's office.

Then Ms. Vishneva and Ms. Lopatkina and two of the three lead male dancers from "Carmen" briefly hailed an image of Plisetskaya and, once it had vanished, took curtain calls with Mr. Gergiev.

The musical didn't only receive a standing ovation during its curtain calls — audiences rose to their feet to cheer for Miranda as soon as he took to the stage to play Alexander Hamilton.

The foam provides a soft landing for Sonya Yoncheva, the soprano singing the title role — allowing her to make her climactic leap off the castle and still return in one piece for curtain calls.

But instead of talking about policy -- like Trump ending a program set up to help vulnerable women and children seeking asylum, for instance -- the momentum is happening around discrediting investigations and taking public curtain calls.

The house instantly rose to its feet for Ms. Mulvany on opening night, and then stayed on past the curtain calls to rummage excitedly through the boxes of additional list items she had left behind.

A choreographer who shuns press and curtain calls, Ms. Michelson — a 2019 MacArthur Fellow — is a different kind of dance artist, whose intellect, imagination and visual sense have been copied over the years but never replicated.

During the curtain calls at the end, when Mr. Alagna appeared he went straight to the prompter's box and heartily shook the extended hand (all that the audience could see) of this production's experienced prompter Joan Dornemann.

When Mr. Hvorostovsky last appeared at the Met in the fall of 2015 for three performances of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," also starring Ms. Netrebko, he was showered with white roses by the orchestra during the curtain calls.

An expanded role for Alexandra Billings, as Maura's friend Davina, and the quick curtain calls of peripheral players (including Cherry Jones and Alia Shawkat) come across like nods toward stories that a full fifth season would have told.

The final three chapters did provide a chance to offer curtain calls to much of the cast, including a few who had died earlier, thanks to the parallel world in which Elliot (OK, not exactly Elliot) found himself.

Kobe Bryant's final season is unfolding as a drawn-out retirement tour, with introspective interviews and curtain calls galore as an all-time great makes the final road trips and plays the last home games of a legendary career.

Many could not see the man they were cheering: Since Mr. Levine has conducted for the past few seasons from a motorized wheelchair, he could not make it from the pit to the stage in time for curtain calls.

Even after the curtain calls, this sardonic show can't resist one more uncomfortable joke: He reappears in his wheelchair as the janitor tasked with cleaning up confetti, and (jovially) makes the children in the audience feel guilty enough to join him.

When the bereaved parents didn't return for curtain calls, the relief was palpable: Catharsis and confession are both admirable, as are Ms. Catel and Mr. Kenigsberg, but much of what they shared seemed ultimately to belong to the private sphere.

The night when cast member Brandon Victor Dixon addressed audience member Mike Pence from the stage during curtain calls (on the subject of inclusiveness) remains for me the most important conversation about the Trump presidency that the theater has initiated.

The elaborate production did contain a few modest glitches, among them an unseen voice that said "30 seconds" -- apparently warning of an upcoming ad break -- during one of the numbers; and cutting away from Chenoweth rather awkwardly and rudely during the curtain calls.

The lighting for some is not yet adequate ("Symphonic Variations" should never open with shadows over part of the women's faces), and the company has not learned the trick of giving curtain calls to principal dancers as it does at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Directed and choreographed by an ailing Gower Champion — whose death was announced by the producer David Merrick during the curtain calls on opening night — it followed the film's narrative thrust, but added several songs written by the same composer, Harry Warren, and lyricist, Al Dubin.

This new boldness made international headlines when a cast member of the blockbuster musical "Hamilton" (still dominating Broadway more than a year after its opening) addressed an audience member from the stage during curtain calls — one Mike Pence, the vice president-elect — on the importance of honoring his country's diversity.

Further along they take curtain calls with divas on stage at La Scala, or they are tailors wielding measuring tapes, or chefs in hats, or watchmakers in a workshop in waistcoats, the cogs and innards of a clock spilling out before them; or disco dancers, in sequins, on a multicolored flashing floor.

The first concert was set for the eve of the World Cup Final in Rome and was seen by 800 million people around the world, lining Pavarotti up for the second of his two Guinness World Records: One for receiving the most curtain calls (165), and the other for best-selling classical album (The Three Tenors).

Scene for scene, the movie is a satisfying reminder of what "Breaking Bad" did so well, not simply because it manages curtain calls for Jonathan Banks (as the grizzled enforcer Mike Ehrmantraut), Robert Forster (as Ed, the vacuum-cleaner salesman with a sideline in disappearing criminals) and Krysten Ritter (as Jesse's departed junkie soul mate, Jane — a rare female presence in what is a very male story even by "Breaking Bad" standards).

The creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, conceived it as a single 18-hour work, and the first two "parts," as Showtime calls them, don't feel particularly episodic.) Alongside the introductions are a great number of curtain calls, among them Margaret the Log Lady (Catherine E. Coulson), now using an oxygen tube; Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) and Andy (Harry Goaz), whose son, last met in utero, is now 24; Shelly (Mädchen Amick) and James (James Marshall), making eyes at each other across the Bang Bang Bar.

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Wood Soanes, Curtain Calls (syndicated column), Oct. 16, 1936. Walter Winchell, On Broadway (syndicated column), Sept. 27, 1938.

They performed two Verdi operas Nabucco and I Lombardi alla prima crociata and Wagner's Lohengrin, to many curtain calls and rave reviews.

Curtain Calls before Curfew, 1962. Frontiers of Soonerland in Song and Story. Oklahoma City: Adman, 1965. From Country Lanes to Space Age Dawn.

The Siciliana was encored as were several other numbers in the opera. It was a sensation, with Mascagni taking 40 curtain calls and winning the First Prize.

Peter Dannenberg. Our Critics Abroad - Germany : '48 Curtain Calls' (Hanover). Opera, October 1970, page 960. As the nanny in the premiere of Gardner's The Visitors, Musical Times pronounced her “outstanding”.

It was sung by a trio calling themselves "The Curtain Calls." Soon afterward in the same year the three founding members of Bread (Royer, Griffin and Gates) would combine forces as their own group.

In 1956, she was the Kostelnicka in the new Covent Garden production of Janáček's Jenůfa, a role she sang with distinction for over 20 years. After one magnificent performance in the early 1970s she took over 20 curtain calls.

At its premiere, the opera received a total of fifty curtain calls, still a house record.Merry Mount The opera was performed eight more times during the season, but never returned to the Met's repertory, and subsequent performances have been scarce.

The audience reaction at the premiere ranged from enthusiastic applause to irate booing."Neuer 'Lohengrin' in Bayreuth: Wie man den Schwan rupft", Der Spiegel, in German, 26 July 2010. According to Der Spiegel, Neuenfels merely smiled and shrugged after taking his curtain calls.

She appeared onstage during the curtain calls, where she gave a speech recalling her own memories from making the film and praising the cast for their new interpretation. The production closed on January 12, 2008, after a run of more than three years.

Glossary of Theatre Terms Schoolshows.demon.co.uk. URL Accessed July 20, 2006. In musical theatre, the performers typically recognize the orchestra and its conductor at the end of the curtain call. Luciano Pavarotti holds the record for receiving 165 curtain calls, more than any other artist.

Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. New York: Henry Holt, . in what would prove to be a prescient action. De Mille herself played the lead, and the premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House on 16 October 1942 received 22 curtain calls.

"Loud, Left-handed and Lovely", an interview with Gold, Muppet Central Articles, 19 February 1999, accessed 7 April 2009Hartley, Emma. "Mamma Mia! Cut the curtain calls, the fan waiting backstage wants his feed", The Evening Standard, 8 June 2000, p. 24 They have one son, Louis.

On closing night, because the Russian audiences would not stop applauding, the company gave over 30 curtain calls. Returning home with news of this triumph, the company performed a two-week engagement at the ANTA Theater. By the end of January 1971 performance, the entire run was sold out.

Miles wrote several books, including The British Theatre (1947), God's Brainwave (1972) and Favourite Tales from Shakespeare (1972). Robin Hood - His Life and Legend was published in 1979; it was illustrated by future Time Team artist Victor Ambrus. In 1981, Miles co-authored Curtain Calls with J. C. Trewin.

In July 2010, a recording featuring Boyd's original songs was made available on iTunes. In March 2011, Marty Thomas, along with David J. Boyd, recorded an updated version of the original track "Love Conquers All", which thereafter was featured and sung by Marty in the show during curtain calls.

Retrieved 27 October 2007. Richard Strauss engraved by Ferdinand Schmutzer (1922) In 1905, Strauss produced Salome, a somewhat dissonant modernist opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde, which produced a passionate reaction from audiences. The premiere was a major success, with the artists taking more than 38 curtain calls.

Stanislavski re- located the play's action to pre-Revolutionary France and trimmed its five-act structure to eleven scenes; Golovin employed a revolve to quicken scene- changes. It was a great success, garnering ten curtain calls on opening night.Benedetti (1999, 309). Golovin was appointed a People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Dell'Era received five curtain calls but the critical reception of the ballet was poor. Her critical reception for her role as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty had been better. Russian ballet dancer Nicolai Solyannikov thought that Dell'Era's dancing in Nutcracker was awful. "this coarse, ungraceful dancer is much to the German taste".

During the curtain calls of Babette, she pulled Herbert on stage and planted a big, sexy kiss on his cheek. "The Kiss" generated considerable comment, and when Herbert wrote Mlle. Modiste, two years later, he wrote one of his most famous melodies for her, "Kiss Me Again". After Modiste closed, Scheff toured it for years.

The performance was a great success with the public. The Mariinsky Theatre was sold out; Mussorgsky had to take some 20 curtain calls; students sang choruses from the opera in the street. This time, however, the critical reaction was exceedingly hostileCalvocoressi, Abraham (1974: pp. 48–51) [see Critical Reception in this article for details].

Tree's younger brother was the author and explorer Julius Beerbohm, and his sister was author Constance Beerbohm. A younger half-brother was the parodist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, born from their father's second marriage. Max jokingly claimed that Herbert added the "Tree" to his name because it was easier for audiences than shouting "Beerbohm! Beerbohm!" at curtain calls.

In May 1919 she received thirteen curtain calls after the Garden Scene in Faust. She had a similar triumph when she sang this role in Scotland. She also appeared as Mimi in ten performances of Puccini's La bohème. On 26 July, she created the role of Princess Yaroslavna in the first performance in English of Borodin's Prince Igor.

The large- scale production (twenty-two individual roles plus a chorus) was directed by Wilhelm von Wymetal with sets designed by Joseph Urban. The premiere was a great success both with the critics and the audience. There were over fifteen minutes of ovations at the end, and the composer and librettist were called back for five curtain calls.

On 2 March 1940, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the premiere performance of Graduation Ball received twenty-five curtain calls. It had been an immediate success. During the Sydney engagement and on the subsequent Australian tour, it was performed more than sixty times.Richard Stone, "Come into the Wings: The Art of Enid Dickson," National Library of Australia News (August 2007), p. 18.

Sokolova remembered that she and Woizikovsky performed a certain pas de deux, a piece which in rehearsal "we enjoyed dancing though we did not think it anything special". Yet when their performance of it finished "the applause was thunderous". They took an "embarrassing" number of curtain calls. Sokolova describes Woizikovsky as "never an actor, his talent was for genuine dancing".

The program also featured the American debut of young Russian violinist Lea Luboshutz (listed at the time as Laya Luboshiz),"The Russian Orchestra: A Concert of New Compositions in Carnegie Hall", New York Times, 1 November 1907, p.9. who received eight curtain calls for her solo on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto."Of Musical Interest", Brooklyn Life, 23 November 1907, p.15.

Unlike Fong and Loong, Yam and Lee never returned. For the rest of her life, Yam didn't even take the bow at curtain calls although she was in the audience on most days that Loong's troupe performed in Hong Kong. Comfortable enough around Yam, Yuen called Yam lazy because she did not comment on some cake served backstage in those days.

He rushed back onto the stage to join them and played various instruments making six curtain calls. On leaving the stage for the final time as the house tabs fell, he stepped into the wings and collapsed with his third heart attack in 16 years. He was rushed to Cheltenham General Hospital, where he died just before 3 a.m on Monday 28 May.

The first performance in Hamburg, on 19 January 1892, was conducted by Gustav Mahler, in the composer's presence. Tchaikovsky was applauded after each scene and received curtain calls at the end. He attributed its success to Mahler, whom he described as "not some average sort, but simply a genius burning with a desire to conduct".Alexander Poznansky, Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, p. 543.

Rubens was released from Patton State Hospital in late December 1929. She made her first public appearance since her release on January 30, 1930, in a role in a play produced at the Writer's Club in Hollywood. Her performance was well received by the audience, and she received eight curtain calls. After the show, Rubens gave an interview to United Press stating that she was cured of her addiction.

She is the daughter of American film studio executive, Nicholas Schenck.Pittsburgh-Post Gazette Monday, November 29, 1954 Page 8 Marti Stevens Comes to Ankara She was also a close friend of actresses Marlene DietrichThe Age Wednesday January 14, 1970 Page 11 If you think she's Marlene, you're wrong! But she is a close friend Curtain Calls / Anne Latreille and Rachel Roberts. In 1963 she had a surprise visit from a queen.

Bernhardt in 1922 In 1920, she resumed acting in her theater, usually performing single acts of classics such as Racine's Athelee, which did not require much movement. For her curtain calls, she stood, balancing on one leg and gesturing with one arm. She also starred in a new play, Daniel, written by her grandson-in-law, playwright Louis Verneuil. She played the male lead role, but appeared in just two acts.

The production was a great success, garnering ten curtain calls on opening night. Thanks to its cohesive unity and rhythmic qualities, it is recognised as one of Stanislavski's major achievements. With a performance of extracts from its major productions—including the first act of Three Sisters in which Stanislavski played Vershinin—the MAT celebrated its 30-year jubilee on 29 October 1928.Benedetti (1999a, 317) and Magarshack (1950, 376–378).

He gets to show off his newfound abilities when a performer shows up drunk. Milton dances and sings "Down at Baba's Alley", and the act gets three curtain calls. Milton's fiancee and former secretary, Vivian Reilly, tries to get him to resume his old, humdrum life, but he likes it where he is. Bunny La Fleur, Goldie's girl, talks Vivian into coming along so she can try to change Milton's mind.

In 1881, she was invited to perform in Lohengrin, which was being given at the Berlin Royal Opera. She agreed to appear in the role of Elsa, which she had previously sung in Italian, and relearned the part in German. The performance was attended by the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm I. The reception was very positive, earning three curtain calls. In 1882, the Kaiser awarded her the title of Hofkammersängerin.

Both roles would later become closely associated with her name. In 1953, Scotto auditioned at La Scala for the role of Walter in Catalani's La Wally with Renata Tebaldi and Mario del Monaco. After her audition, one of the judges, the conductor Victor de Sabata, was heard to say, "Forget about the rest." La Wally opened on 7 December 1953 and Scotto was called back for fifteen curtain calls.

Although it received positive reviews, the Chicago production was not a commercial success. The New York Times review of the Broadway production predicted that the play was "sure of being extremely successful". This prediction was accurate, as the show became a huge hit. The opening night had multiple curtain calls, and by the second night the theater was so packed that Veiller could not enter to watch the performance.

Hopper helped make the comic poem famous and was often called upon to give his colorful, melodramatic recitation, which he did about 10,000 times in his booming voice, reciting it during performances and as part of curtain calls, and on radio. He released a recorded version on phonograph record in 1906, and recited the poem in a short film made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process in 1923.

As a young man Jones became an accomplished Shakespearean actor and studied at Stratford-upon-Avon. He considered turning professional and even received an offer from Hollywood—thereby causing some anxious moments for his evangelist father. Jones Jr. did create a one-man show he called "Curtain Calls", in which he portrayed seven or eight Shakespearean characters accompanied by classical music, scheduling performances four weeks a year from 1933 to 1945.Turner, 129-30.

He continued by complaining that the film had "too many encores and curtain calls". Robert Abele's review of The Brothers Bloom for the Los Angeles Times criticized Brody for over-moping and considered Ruffalo as "out of sorts" but thought Weisz's performance as "the best thing in the movie". Abele also thought Johnson used too many filmmaking quirks and when Johnson was not distracting the audience he had his actors doing it.

MacMillan had intended the roles to be performed by Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable, but David Webster, the manager of the Royal Opera House, insisted on Fonteyn and Nureyev. A year after the debut, the production was still drawing queues for its nightly performances. The audiences littered the duo with flowers, demanding repeated curtain-calls. Fonteyn's depth as an actor made the performance unique, making Juliet one of her most acclaimed roles.

When Britten conducted the opera's premiere, in its original form of four acts, the performance received 15 curtain calls. Critical reaction to the premiere, according to a December 1951 New York Times article, was "a very good press and a very fair one, enthusiastic if not really ecstatic". Billy Budd received its United States premièred in 1952 in performances by Indiana University Opera Company. In 1952, NBC television presented a condensed version of the opera.

Beset with disasters, not the least of which was the censorship of his play, Miss Julie, the theatre had a tumultuous and extremely brief history. The theatre premiered in Holte on March 9, 1889 with a triple bill: Pariah, Creditors, and The Stronger. The evening was a success, with applause and curtain calls. Even harsh critics were won over, with the exception of a newspaper reviewer who demanded that Strindberg be deported.

22 The "failure" of the opening night performance was only relative. In addition to the applause for Salvini-Donatelli's aria, the orchestral Prelude was so well received that the audience began to shout for Verdi, who had to take curtain calls even before the curtain went up on the first act. Things only started derailing in the second act, especially the singing of the baritone (Felice Varesi) and the tenor (Lodovico Graziani).Phillips-Matz (1964) pp.

"That's All There Is to That" is a song written by Clyde Otis and Kelly Owens and performed by Nat King Cole featuring The Four Knights. It reached #15 on the U.S. R&B; chart and #16 on the U.S. pop chart in 1956. The song reference's Ethel Barrymore's phrase to rebuff curtain calls, "That's all there is, there isn't any more". The single's B-side, "My Dream Sonata" reached #59 on the U.S. pop chart in 1956.

Soon thereafter Duponchel joined Cicéri at the Opéra. On 8 August 1827, at the ballerina Marie Taglioni's sixth and final performance in her debut at the Paris Opera in the ballet Le Sicilien (23 July), Duponchel created a new tradition by throwing a crown of white roses on the stage at her curtain calls, the first time flowers had ever been thrown on the stage at that theatre.Carlson 1972, pp. 72–73; Guest 2008, pp. 121–122.

It became common to hear the crowd chant "We want the Bird, we want the Bird" at the end of each of his home victories. The chants would continue until he emerged from the dugout to tip his cap to the crowd. While these "curtain calls" have become more common in modern sports, they were less so in mid-1970s baseball. In his 18 appearances at Tiger Stadium, attendance equaled almost half of the entire season's 81 home games.

The athleticism on display is truly amazing . . . Director Liu Tongbiao has choreographed the proceedings with a precision that would put the Rockettes to shame. It all culminates in a final raucous battle, and the most athletic curtain calls probably ever seen on a Broadway stage." New York Post review Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press called it "a striking mixture of sentiment and strength" and commented, "It is the demanding physicality in the show that counts.

"Appendix 3 (The Relative Popularity of Coward's Works)", Noël Coward Music Index, accessed 29 November 2015 His biggest failure in this period was the play Sirocco (1927), which concerns free love among the wealthy. It starred Ivor Novello, of whom Coward said, "the two most beautiful things in the world are Ivor's profile and my mind".Richards, p. 56 Theatregoers hated the play, showing violent disapproval at the curtain calls and spitting at Coward as he left the theatre.

Madeline is a media franchise that originated as a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, an Austrian-American author. The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film. The adaptations are famous for the closing line, a famous phrase Ethel Barrymore used to rebuff curtain calls, "That's all there is, there isn't any more." The stories take place in a Catholic boarding school in Paris.

In fact, during the first Bayreuth performances, Wagner himself cried "Bravo!" as the Flowermaidens made their exit in the second act, only to be hissed by other members of the audience. At some theatres other than Bayreuth, applause and curtain calls are normal practice after every act. Program notes until 2013 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York asked the audience not to applaud after act I."Pondering the Mysteries of Parsifal" by Fred Plotkin, WQXR, 2 March 2013.

According to Barbirolli, Ferrier was particularly pleased with one critic's comment that her movements were as graceful as any of those of the dancers on stage. However, she was physically weakened from her prolonged radiation treatment; during the second performance, three days later, her left femur partially disintegrated. Quick action by other cast members, who moved to support her, kept the audience in ignorance. Although virtually immobilised, Ferrier sang her remaining arias and took her curtain calls before being transferred to hospital.

Ayo was one of four co-founders and Co- artistic Directors of the consensus-run defunkt theatre in Portland, OR in 2000.Silvis, Steffen, defunkt: No Curtain Calls, Please. Theatre Communications Group She served as the resident set designer winning Drammy Awards for her designs for David Mamet's The Woods and Mac Wellman's The Bad Infinity.Past Drammy Award Winners She served as assistant director on three plays, and acted in one play in the role of Strophe in Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane.

" Weisgal relates that he chose Godik, who was so happy with the idea that he immediately flew to Paris to make the arrangements. Her performance was an outstanding success, with fourteen curtain calls. At the end, she said to the audience, "We have suffered, you and I, during those terrible years [of the Holocaust]. If there is any consolation or comfort for the incalculable suffering of your people and my people, your warmth and affection has restored in me my faith in humanity.

The directors of these companies were personally appointed by the tsar, and all the dancers were, in a sense, Imperial servants. In the theatre, the men in the audience always remained standing until the tsar entered his box and, out of respect, after the performance they remained in their places until he had departed. Curtain calls were arranged according to a strict pattern: first, the ballerina bowed to the tsar’s box, then to that of the theater director, and finally to the general public.Anderson (1992), 101.

She thanked the audience with her distinctive curtain call; she did not bow, but stood perfectly still, with her hands clasped under her chin, or with her palms on her cheeks, and then suddenly stretched them out to the audience. After her first performance in New York, she made 27 curtain calls. Although she was welcomed by theater- goers, she was entirely ignored by New York high society, who considered her personal life scandalous. Bernhardt's first American tour carried her to 157 performances in 51 cities.

" "Curtain Calls" was written while Miller was visiting his brother in Breckenridge, Colorado in 1996 with his sister. Miller went out to a local nightclub and came home "feeling lonely." He felt: "so many people, so much mirth, and yet, in the end, we are all alone." He said that "like many songs I was writing at the time, it dealt with the allure of the itinerant life of a musician, the life onto which I was embarking, and the strong ambivalence I felt about it.

After numerous successful traditional performances, Moltopera has chosen to put Magic Flute in a psychiatry, using own, self-written prosaic parts and a six-member ensemble instead of a symphonic orchestra transcribed by the young composer Kayamar. The critics disputed long about the direction, but the singers had three curtain calls and Moltopera became recognized nationwide, receiving publicity even from Serbia. Moltopera featured numerous guest artists in this production, even involving singers from the Hungarian State Opera, which predicted the transformation of the opera company.

In 1901, his play Electra caused a storm of outrage and floods of equally hyperbolic enthusiasm. As in many of his works, Galdós targeted clericalism and the inhuman fanaticism and superstition that can accompany it. The performance was interrupted by audience reaction and the author had to take many curtain calls. After the third night, the conservative and clerical parties organised a demonstration outside the theatre. The police moved in and arrested two members of a workers’ organization who had reacted against the demonstration.

In 1980, Fields was cast as Tom of Warwick in the 20th Anniversary revival production of Camelot starring Richard Burton, Christine Ebersole and Richard Muenz. This production toured the United States, breaking world records for attendance, and also played at Lincoln Center’s State Theater in New York City. After the curtain calls at the company's final performance in Chicago, Burton announced to the audience that it was Thor's birthday. The audience sang "Happy Birthday", and Burton called for the sword Excalibur to be brought to him.

La cena delle beffe premiered in Milan on 20 December 1924 at La Scala in a performance directed by Giovacchino Forzano and conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Carmen Melis as Ginevra and Hipólito Lázaro as Giannetto. The sets and costumes were designed by Galileo Chini, who had also designed the premiere production of Benelli's original play in 1909. The opening night was a triumphal success with the conductor and cast taking 24 curtain calls. and this success at La Scala led to performances throughout Italy and abroad.

The first production of Romeo and Juliet was met with overwhelmingly positive critical and box office response. Fonteyn and Nureyev received 43 curtain calls, eventually needing the safety curtain to descend in order to encourage the audience to leave the theater. Critics agreed across the board that the ballet was a fantastic addition to the Royal Ballet’s repertoire as well as an accomplishment for MacMillan. The Observer, The Daily Mail, and the Sunday Telegraph were a few of the magazines and papers to review the performance.

The cast of the première included the soprano Cisse Vaughan and the mezzo-soprano Evelina Levi. The performance was a success, with "many curtain calls for the composer", and was judged as an "art jewel". A revised version was performed at the , Turin, on 9 April 1934, as La bella dormente nel bosco. The cast included Graziella Gazzera Valle (Princess), Magda Piccarolo (Blue Fairy, Nightingale), Angelina Rossetti (Spindle, Duchess, Cat), Maria Benedetti (Queen, Cuckoo, Old lady), Vincenzo Capponi (Prince, Jester) and Egisto Busacchi (King, Woodcutter, Ambassador).

Upon the completion of the opera, preparations for the initial performance were conducted in absolute secrecy and Verdi reserved the right to cancel the premiere up to the last minute. In particular, the composer expressed reservations about Tamagno's softer singing, though not about the power and ring of his vocalism in dramatic passages of the score. Verdi need not have worried: Otellos debut proved to be a resounding success. The audience's enthusiasm for Verdi was shown by the 20 curtain calls that he took at the end of the opera.

"The Greater Majestic Theatre." Marquee: Journal of the Theatre Historical Society of America 20 (1988): 5-7. prompting society women to wear fur coats to the June opening."Majestic Theatre". Frommer's 2010-2-15. The 4,000-seat theatre was filled to capacity for opening day entertainment, which consisted of the musical film, Follies of 1929 and live performances by Mexican Troubador Don Galvan, "The Banjo Boy," the "Seven Nelsons" acrobatic troupe, Eddie Sauer and his "Syncopaters," and the Father of Country Music, Jimmie Rodgers, who himself received 18 curtain calls.

The feud came to a head during a performance in New Haven, Connecticut after Vélez punched Holman in between curtain calls and gave her a black eye. The feud effectively ended the show. Upon her return to Mexico City in 1938 to star in her first Mexican film, Vélez was greeted by ten thousand fans. The film La Zandunga directed by Fernando de Fuentes, co-starring Mexican actor Arturo de Córdova, was a critical and financial success and Vélez was slated to appear in four more Mexican films.

According to a contemporary notice in La Stampa, at the Viennese premiere the authors received 37 curtain calls. The work was also presented in New York under the title Alt Heidelberg. A piano-vocal score was published by Puccio, Milan, in 1908, and an essay and a tenor aria from Act IV was published in the first issue of Rassegna internazionale di musica, published by fratelli Serra, Genoa. A tenor aria from the work was recorded on 16 December 1909, by tenor Umberto Macnez, a recording of which is still commercially available.

Galdós took about 15 curtain calls. However, although the audience reception was good, the play did not receive universal critical acclaim because of its realistic dialogue which did not accord with the general theatrical language of the time, the setting of a scene in the boudoir of a courtesan, and the un-Spanish attitude towards a wife’s adultery. The Catholic press did not attend the performance but this did not prevent them from denouncing the author as a perverse and wicked influence. The play ran for twenty nights.

Amalie Materna, Bayreuth's original Brünnhilde, reprised the part here. The stage designer, Wilhelm Hock, recreated the original Bayreuth designs. The performance was received with great enthusiasm by the audience, who demanded numerous curtain calls. Damrosch fell ill just before the festival ended, and died on 15 February 1885. During the 1880s and 1890s, Die Walküre was shown in many European cities, sometimes as part of a Ring cycle but often as an independent work: Brussels, Venice, Strasbourg and Budapest in 1883, Prague in 1885, St Petersburg in 1889, Copenhagen in 1891 and Stockholm in 1895.

Long may they reign." Brian Lowry of Variety gave the season a negative review, writing, "Ultimately, this 'Arrested' revival plays a bit like a reunion special, where the individual cast members come out and take their curtain calls. After the warmth of seeing them reunited (or semi- reunited, given how rarely more than one or two are featured in a scene together), there's a sort of awkwardness to it, as if nobody really has much to say. We're meant to bask in the nostalgia, while the particulars are of relatively little consequence.

Reinhardt and Duke Ellington at the Aquarium in New York, c.November 1946 After the war, Reinhardt rejoined Grappelli in the UK. In the autumn of 1946, he made his first tour in the United States, debuting at Cleveland Music Hall as a special guest soloist with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. He played with many notable musicians and composers, such as Maury Deutsch. At the end of the tour, Reinhardt played two nights at Carnegie Hall in New York City; he received a great ovation and took six curtain calls on the first night.

During a recent (to that time) run at the Music Hall, Junior substituted for his father for one performance and nobody knew the difference. Junior carried on the act in Los Angeles with the Ice Capades.Billboard, May 23, 1942 Following a performance at New York City's Roxy Theater, on May 16, 1942, he took five curtain calls; he turned to Buck Wheeler, the Roxy stage manager, and said "They're still applauding." Then he walked over to the backstage elevator and, while applause was still being heard, died of a heart attack.

The unrest receded significantly during Part II, and by some accounts Maria Piltz's rendering of the final "Sacrificial Dance" was watched in reasonable silence. At the end there were several curtain calls for the dancers, for Monteux and the orchestra, and for Stravinsky and Nijinsky before the evening's programme continued.Kelly, pp. 292–94 Among the more hostile press reviews was that of Le Figaros critic, Henri Quittard, who called the work "a laborious and puerile barbarity" and added "We are sorry to see an artist such as M. Stravinsky involve himself in this disconcerting adventure".

He once took eighteen curtain calls after a performance of Le Spectre de la Rose, in a new version choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska. Costumed as the Spectre in a sheer, rose-colored body stocking with a single strand of small roses trailing across his bare chest and over one shoulder, his beautifully proportioned figure was perfectly revealed. It is little wonder at the audience's prolonged applause. There is a famous photograph by Maurice Seymour of Zoritch in this role, standing in repose with arms curved softly aloft, that has been much admired and frequently reproduced.

In 1913 his play The New Shylock was performed at Danzig in Germany. The New York Times under the headline: "Danzig Applauds Scheffauer's Play" wrote: "Mr. Scheffauer attended the opening and responded to a number of enthusiastic curtain-calls. The play has already been bought for production in Bonn, Strassburg, and Posen, and negotiations for its production in Berlin are pending."October 12, 1913 In November 1914 the play was performed at Annie Horniman's Repertory Theatre in Manchester, England, the first American drama ever written and performed at this theatre.

The paper also faulted the work for setting the execution in a cave: "The opera should have ended in the open, for the Aztecs worshipped on plateaus, on the pyramid of Cholula, for example, and not in caves." Nonetheless, it deemed the setting appropriately atmospheric for the drama's purposes. After the performance, both Hadley and Stevens appeared for curtain calls. Fitziu presented Hadley with a large silk American flag, and the "representative audience of New York musicians and society folk" joined in singing as the orchestra played The Star Spangled Banner.

Reviewing the play's initial production at the Boston Museum, The Boston Post "warmly congratulated" Sullivan on his script and said that it overcame the difficulties of turning Stevenson's story into a drama with only a few flaws. Mansfield's performance was praised for drawing a clear distinction between Jekyll and Hyde, although the reviewer found his portrayal of Hyde better crafted than his portrayal of Jekyll. Audience reaction was enthusiastic, with long applause and several curtain calls for Mansfield. According to The Cambridge Tribune, the audience reaction affirmed "that the play and its production were a work of genius".

He then threw the ball to first base quickly to double off Jim Edmonds, who had rounded second on his way to third, to end the inning. He received two curtain calls from the Shea crowd. With the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the sixth, José Valentín and Chávez failed to get the go-ahead run in. With the score 1–1 in the top of the ninth, Yadier Molina, with a man on-base, hit a deep fly off Aaron Heilman in the same general direction as the one Rolen hit in the sixth.

Biographer Tad Mosel writes: "The audience had paid the actors the supreme compliment of having the faith to wait for them, and the actors responded with the kind of performance actors wish they could give every day of their lives. When the final curtain fell at 4 am, they received more curtain calls than they ever had."Cornell, I Wanted to be an Actress, Random House (1938) Ray Henderson, the troupe's publicist and manager, managed to get this story published the next day in every newspaper in America. Alexander Woollcott established a radio tradition on his program, The Town Crier.

"Una O'Connor Dies; Played Servant Roles," New York Herald Tribune (6 February 1959). Her weak heart was detected as early as 1932, when her arrival in America began with detention at Ellis Island because of a "congenital heart condition"."U.S. Admits Una O'Connor; British Actress's Heart Ailment Causes Special Inquiry," New York Herald Tribune (20 September 1932). By the time of her appearance in the stage version of Witness for the Prosecution she had to stay in bed all day, emerging only to get to the theater and then leaving curtain calls early to return to her bed.

Gemma Bellincioni, who created the role of Cristina, and sang it in most of the opera's performances between 1892 and 1893 Mala vita premiered to great success on 21 February 1892 at the Teatro Argentina with Roberto Stagno as Vito and Gemma Bellincioni as Cristina. Giordano and the cast were called back to the stage for 24 curtain calls. The opera's next stop was the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with the same cast. The Naples performance on 26 April 1892 was a fiasco, booed and jeered by the audience and attacked by the critics the following day.

It was the first time that the work of an African-American composer was presented by a major American opera company. Although the leading roles of Dessalines and his wife Azelia were based on black Haitians, the opera company cast white opera stars Robert Weede and Marie Powers, who wore dark make-up for the 1949 premiere. African-American bass-baritone Lawrence Winters took over the role of Dessalines from Weede for the second performance of the opera and continued in the role for the remainder of the production's run. The premiere performance was greeted with 22 curtain calls.

By the end of her career, Tebaldi had sung in 1,262 performances, 1,048 complete operas, and 214 concerts. Tebaldi retired from the opera stage in 1973 as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello in the Metropolitan Opera, the same role she debuted there nearly 20 years previously. In January of 1976, she retired from giving recitals, making her last one in New York's Carnegie Hall where she was overcome with emotion and had to return to perform after a few weeks in a successful but shaky performance. She received six curtain calls and standing ovations from the audience.

In attendance for the performance was the Emperor and the Empress Maria Fyodorovna, both of whom were fanatic balletomanes and maintained the Imperial Theatres lavishly. So impressed was the Emperor by Drigo's conducting that during the final curtain calls he gave the conductor a standing ovation, and ordered the rest of the house to follow suit. The Imperial Theatre's official composer of ballet music, the Austrian Ludwig Minkus, retired from his post in 1886. The director of the Saint Peterbsurg Imperial Theatres, Ivan Vsevolozhsky then abolished the position of staff ballet composer in an effort to diversify the music supplied for new works.

At Bayreuth performances audiences do not applaud at the end of the first act. This tradition is the result of a misunderstanding arising from Wagner's desire at the premiere to maintain the serious mood of the opera. After much applause following the first and second acts, Wagner spoke to the audience and said that the cast would take no curtain calls until the end of the performance. This confused the audience, who remained silent at the end of the opera until Wagner addressed them again, saying that he did not mean that they could not applaud.

"MUSIC; A Premier Is Too Often a Dead End", The New York Times, March 18, 2001. Retrieved June 16, 2009. The New York Times wrote: "When Weisgall took curtain calls, the ovation was so thunderous, you would have thought that Verdi had risen from the dead."Tommasini, Anthony. "MUSIC; A Premier Is Too Often a Dead End", The New York Times, March 18, 2001. Retrieved June 16, 2009. Despite the enthusiastic reception of the premiere, Esther was not performed again by a major opera company until it opened the New York City Opera's 2009–10 season.Anthony Tommasini, Reborn: Neglected Work and City Opera, The New York Times, Nov.

Foreword to Mander, Raymond and Joe Mitchenson, A Picture History of Gilbert and Sullivan, Vista Books, London, 1962. The season, and the following one, were tremendous successes, revitalising the company. Contemporary accounts describe her taking three curtain calls with Gilbert on the opening night of the 1906 revival of The Yeomen of the Guard. Planter in Embankment gardens behind the Savoy Hotel After the repertory seasons in 1906–08 the company did not perform in London again until 1919, only touring throughout Britain during that time. Carte wrote in 1911 that her health made it impossible for her to produce any more revivals at the Savoy.

Rosario García Orellana (October 2, 1905 Havana – November 3, 1997 New York City) was a Cuban coloratura soprano. Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona composed Escucha al Ruiseñor (Listen to the Nightingale) for her Radamés Giro, Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Música en Cuba, Ed. Letras Cubanas, 2007 which she recorded, among other Cuban music, in New York City for RCA Victor.Portal Cubarte, Efemérides She was thereafter known as Cuba's nightingale. Her operatic debut came on November 25, 1933, courtesy of the Company of Opera of Chicago, at the New York Hippodrome, where she took the role of Gilda in Rigoletto - and received five curtain calls.

She gained international renown when she was cast by Wieland Wagner (Richard Wagner's grandson) as Venus in Tannhäuser at Bayreuth in 1961, at age 24, the first black singer to appear there, which earned her the title "Black Venus". The cast also included Victoria de los Angeles as Elisabeth and Wolfgang Windgassen as Tannhäuser. Conservative opera-goers were outraged at the idea, but Bumbry's performance was so moving that by the end of the opera she had won the audience over and they applauded for 30 minutes, necessitating 42 curtain calls., "Barack Obama honours Bruce Springsteen at White House"], BBC News, December 7, 2009.

Waal, 2. Two of Bosse's older sisters, Alma (1863–1947) and Dagmar (1866–1954), were already successful performers when Harriet was a small child. Inspired by these role models, Harriet began her acting career in a Norwegian touring company run by her sister Alma and Alma's husband Johan Fahlstrøm (1867–1938). Invited to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the eighteen-year-old Harriet reported in a letter to her sister Inez that she had been paralysed by stage-fright before the premiere, but had then taken delight in the performance, the curtain-calls, and the way people stared at her in the street the next day.

She performed in Twist's Off-Broadway show Symphonie fantastique (1998 and 2004) presented at Dodger Stages. The Obie Award-winning work is a water ballet of 180 puppets choreographed to the five movements of Hector Berlioz's 1830 orchestral work. Unseen during the performance, she and the other five performers "...emerge from behind the scenes for their curtain calls... Each is wearing a wetsuit, looks exhausted, gets naked and is soaked from head to toe," according to theater critic Matthew Murray of TalkinBroadway.com. Since 2002, Michahelles and Kahn have taught a summer workshop in pageant puppetry and processional art in the mountain village of Morinesio, located in the Italian Alps.

Fry, thought Trewin, had 'the relish of the Elizabethan word-men', while for The Daily Telegraph's WA Darlington, he was 'like a young Shaw, but with a poet's mind'". Ellis concluded by saying, "The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson was one of the few dissenting voices: he thought the play a 'crazy quilt of verbiage', and wondered whether 'such fiendish cleverness [would] prove commercial'. It did: the play ran for nine months, then transferred to Broadway, where there were nine curtain calls on press night". Reviewing a 2007 revival of the play, The Guardian's theatre critic Michael Billington noted, "Fry's pun-filled, semi-Shakespearean poetry may no longer be fashionable, but it has an exuberant charity that makes it irresistible.

Flagstad and Sonja Henie are the only two Norwegians to have their own stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame". Her career at the Met, however, was not without its ups-and- downs. Flagstad got involved in a long-running feud with tenor co-star Lauritz Melchior after Melchior took offense to some comments Flagstad made about "stupid publicity photos" during a game of bridge in Flagstad's hotel suite while the two were on tour together in Rochester, NY. Present during the infamous bridge game were Flagstad, Melchior and his wife, and Edwin McArthur. Afterwards, Melchior fanned the flames further by insisting that there be no solo curtain calls for Flagstad when the two performed together.

A Plantation Act (1926) is an early Vitaphone sound-on-disc short film starring Al Jolson, the first film that Jolson starred in. On a film set with a plantation background, Jolson in blackface sings three of his hit songs: "April Showers", "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", and "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)". The film presents him as if in a live stage performance, complete with three curtain calls at the finish. Its premiere took place on October 7, 1926, at the Colony Theatre, New York, where it concluded a program of short subjects that accompanied Warner Brothers' second feature-length Vitaphone film The Better 'Ole.

After an introduction that exhibits great beauty and tellingly paints the bliss of rest, 'as by the great and silent rivers that flow in peace and darkness', the composer makes a highly characteristic transition to the horrors of the night, the pernicious visions that grow into horrific hallucinations and culminate in a scream of mortal dread. This growth is carried off with considerable dramatic power and the composer really achieves the intended goal. The last section should be shortened; after the great strain the long ending, which repeats the words and mood of the introduction, has a rather fatiguing effect. Choir and orchestra performed this interesting new work excellently, and Mr. Carl Nielsen, who himself conducted, was acclaimed with a storm of applause and several curtain calls.

In New York, the American showman Sol Hurok said that the Metropolitan Opera House premiere of Fonteyn's Aurora was the "most outstanding" performance he had ever facilitated, the curtain calls lasting half an hour. The New York Herald Tribune called Fonteyn "unmistakably such a star": "London has known this for some time, Europe has found it out and last night she definitely conquered another continent." Fonteyn was featured on the cover of Time and Newsweek. At a rehearsal for The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953 (at the time known as Toast of the Town) Upon returning to England, Fonteyn danced in George Balanchine's Ballet Imperial, before travelling to Italy with Helpmann and Pamela May as a guest star in The Sleeping Beauty.

Rudolf Nureyev, 1961, at his defection Fonteyn began her greatest artistic partnership at a time when many people, including the head of the Royal Ballet, Ninette de Valois, thought she was about to retire. In 1961 Rudolf Nureyev, star of the Kirov Ballet, defected in Paris and was invited by de Valois to join the Royal Ballet. She offered Fonteyn the opportunity to dance with him in his debut, and though reluctant because of their 19-year age difference, Fonteyn agreed. On 21 February 1962, Nureyev and Fonteyn performed together in Giselle to an enthusiastic capacity crowd, for which they received 15 minutes of applause and 20 curtain calls. The performance was followed by a show-stopping performance of Le Corsaire Pas de Deux on 3 November.

It celebrated the star's life and achievements, with new photography and archive articles, including the original Vanity Fair article from November 1984, written in the wake of the singer-songwriter's breakout success, with other content from the magazine, The New Yorker, Wired, and Pitchfork. The cover of The Genius of Prince featured a portrait by Andy Warhol, Orange Prince (1984). Casts of the musicals The Color Purple and Hamilton paid tribute to the star during their curtain calls with "Purple Rain" and "Let's Go Crazy" respectively. In 2016, Minnesota representative Joe Atkins introduced a bill in the state legislature to memorialize Prince with a statue in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, in recognition of his contributions to music and the state of Minnesota.

Her big break came while she was appearing with Clifton Webb and Fred Allen in the 1929 Broadway revue The Little Show, in which she first sang the blues number, "Moanin' Low" by Ralph Rainger, which earned her a dozen curtain calls on opening night, drew raves from the critics and became her signature song.New York Times: Jack Cavanaugh, "Treetops: An Aura of Glamour, a Trail of Tragedies," May 18, 1997, accessed January 7, 2011 Also in that show, she sang the Kay Swift and Paul James song, "Can't We Be Friends?" She became known for singing torch songs. The following year, Holman introduced the Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz standard "Something to Remember You By" in the show Three's a Crowd, which also starred Allen and Webb.

A hand-written score kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France shows some changes made to the part of Cynire which are expressly designated "pour Lays" (for Lays): like the rest of the part, they are notated in the alto clef (C-clef on the third line) which was customarily used for the haute-contre voice. in the small hall of the Menus-Plaisirs which acted as a substitute for the theatre which had burned down. His enormous popularity with the public, with an encore of the main aria and several curtain-calls, made it practically impossible to send him back to prison, although he was forced to sign a solemn undertaking that he would not leave Paris without the express permission of his superiors.Quèruel, Chapter 2, Le rebelle – 1779–1788, pp.

Accompanied by her father, and financed by a wealthy patron, Santiago de la Vega, she then went on to study singing in Italy under Leopardi. On 13 May 1862, she made her debut at La Scala in Milan with an acclaimed performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Ángela Peralta Casteia She sang Bellini's La sonnambula before King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy at the Teatro Regio in Turin where she received 32 curtain calls. Between 1863 and 1864, she sang in the opera houses of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Naples, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, St. Petersburg, Alexandria, and Cairo. The Second Mexican Empire invited her to return to her country to sing in the National Imperial Theatre, and in 1865 she accepted the invitation. In 1866 she sang before Maximilian I of Mexico and Charlotte of Belgium and was named "Chamber singer of the Empire".

Ronzi's biggest triumph in Naples was her performances as the title character in Rossini's Semiramide; in Rome, in 1834, she earned an equally remarkable success in her first Norma at the Teatro Apollo. Her debut at Milan's La Scala took place in 1834, when she successfully sang the title role in Donizetti's Gemma di Vergy. She had repeated curtain calls and a critic wrote that her "demeanour was noble, natural and dignified without exaggeration and affectation, her accent was beautiful, crisp and expressive; her singing all Italian and of the best school." 1834 was possibly her most memorable year because she also had a great success in Rome in her first Anna Bolena, and in Florence she charmed the public with her Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi as well as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello – a role she had already sung in Naples.

He received so many curtain calls after "Di Provenza" that his colleagues Rosa Ponselle and Dino Borgioli left the stage. (When he appeared on Desert Island Discs on 19 November 1956, his own recording of "Di Provenza" was one of the discs he chose.BBC: Desert Island Discs) On 8 October came the first performance of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, a work he recorded twice and came to be particularly associated with (he sang in it in 1953 in a special concert commemorating the coronation of Elizabeth II). In December he married Marjorie Bain, daughter of Sir Ernest Bain. In September 1932 he sang in The Dream of Gerontius at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester. Dennis Noble had continued to sing in musicals all along, and in September 1934 he appeared with Marie Burke in 298 performances of The Great Waltz in New York, followed by a United States tour.

32; Magyar Könyvkiadók és Könyvterjesztők Egyesülése [Association of Hungarian Publishers and Distributors] 1990 "Belfagor was Respighi's second opera; it tied him to the operatic stage for good. It was premiered in 1923 at La Scala in Milan, conducted by Antonio Guarneri, with an illustrious cast: the leading parts were sung by Mariano Stabile, Margaret Sheridan and Francesco Merli. The premiere was fairly successful," The première obtained a "full and warm" approval, with several curtain calls for the composer, but the opinion of the critics was divided, ranging from the enthusiasm of Marinetti, enchanted by the futuristic aspects of the opera, and of the music critic S. A. Lucani, to those who judged opera and libretto absolutely not enjoyable. wrote that this work looked like an attempt, not fully accomplished, to merge in a comic opera "the fabolous and the clownish, the miraculous and the sentimental" and that the comic expressivity was damaged by the absence of "assertiveness of the melodic plan and its capacity to develop rapidly".

The original cast recording was released in 2001 through BMG Australia. Track list: # Overture #Over the Rainbow # Cyclone # Come Out Come Out # It Really Was No Miracle # We Thank You Very Sweetly #Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead # As Mayor of the Munchkin City # As Coroner I Must Aver # Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Reprise) # Lullaby League # Lollipop Guild # We Welcome You to Munchkinland # Follow the Yellow Brick Road - You're Off To See The Wizard #If I Only Had a Brain # We're Off To See The Wizard (Duo) # If I Only Had a Heart # We're Off To See The Wizard (Trio) # Lions, Tigers And Bears # If I Only Had the Nerve # We're Off To See The Wizard (Quartet) # Out Of The Woods # Entr'acte # Merry Old Land Of Oz #If I Were King of the Forest #Jitterbug # Witchmelt # Curtain Calls # Over The Rainbow (Reprise) Webster released "Over the Rainbow" as a single along with another song, "The Best Days".

Britten originally had Geraint Evans in mind for the role, but he withdrew because its tessitura was too high for his voice, and he sang another part. The composer conducted, there were 17 curtain calls, and Uppman was acclaimed as a new star. Uppman sang 395 performances in fourteen roles during a 24-year career with the Metropolitan Opera, most frequently in Mozart operas: 98 performances as Masetto in Don Giovanni and 60 performances as Papageno in The Magic Flute. He also appeared as Guglielmo in 24 performances of Così fan tutte. While with the Met he virtually owned the role of Paquillo in Offenbach’s La Périchole, singing in every one of its 54 performances, from its Metropolitan premiere on 21 December 1956, through the performance in Detroit on 27 May 1971. Another frequent role, Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, he sang 37 times; Sharpless was the role of his farewell performance with the Met on 8 April 1978.

Ferrani later reprised the role of Manon in productions at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and cities throughout Italy. In 1895 Ferrani sang the role of Suzel in L'amico Fritz at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and created the title role in the world premiere of Giacomo Orefice's Consuelo at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. The following year she portrayed the role of Mimì in the original production of Puccini's La bohème in Turin (1896). The day after the successful premiere of La bohème, with the cast receiving 15 curtain calls, Puccini gave Ferrani his photograph with the dedication: > "To my true and splendid Mimì, signorina Cesira Ferrani, with gratitude, G. > Puccini" Original Italian: "Alla mia vera e splendida Mimì, signorina Cesira > Ferrani, riconoscente G. Puccini", quoted in Franchi, February 2006 Following the success of La bohème, Ferrani embarked on performance tours of Russia and Spain, and appeared in productions in Cairo and Lisbon in addition to continuing to perform throughout Italy.

On September 24, 1962, before starting as Artistic Director of the Oregon Symphony, Singer made his London debut conducting the London Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall, which included guest pianist Rudolf Firkušný. The performance won Singer and Firkušný eight curtain calls and a music critic from London's Daily Telegraph declared it a "personal triumph" for Singer. On December 8, 1964, Singer flew from Portland to New York to conduct members of American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center's Philharmic Hall in a program that featured violinist Ruggiero Ricci performing his third of four concerts in a span of 30 days under a different conductor each time, showcasing great masterpieces of violin concerto repertoire – 15 concertos in all: Ricci, November 8 and 9, 1965, reunited with Singer in Portland, with the Oregon Symphony, and performed the Paganini, Stravinsky, and Brahms concertos. On April 17, 1970, Singer debuted with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall as guest conductor of a program that included a London debut of a piano concerto by Richard Yardumian, performed by Jeffrey Siegel.