Mr. Morris offered a solid, admirable performance of this grueling role, which requires tremendous stamina and courage.
In keeping with the company's distinguished track record with modern music, the season has included admirable performances of difficult but fascinating scores like the violin concertos of Thomas Adès and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
In recent years San Francisco Ballet, Ballet Arizona and Miami City Ballet have given admirable performances of it, often better than City Ballet's in the same period.
The work at first hearing gave the sense of disappointment, in spite of the admirable performance which the composer secured for it.
It's an admirable performance, but the movie is an embarrassment.
Even Smith's admirable performance is affected by the idea of a psychological double-Hedda in that, in the first half, her affable social mask only slips in rare moments of total solitude.
There are admirable performances in some of the smaller roles.
The immediacy of experiencing "Parsifal" in English enhanced every element of this admirable performance and intriguing production.
When he read the script, he was on the phone with me that second, like, 'I just don't want to do this.' " Overruled, Lewis took the argument to the screen, making a suicide bomber relatable — possibly even admirable — and delivering the seminal performance of the series.
But despite the inventive staging and all-out efforts of an admirable cast — especially the courageous performance of the Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch as Seth Brundle, the obsessed scientist who morphs into the hideous creature he calls Brundlefly — "The Fly" is a ponderous and enervating opera, and the problem is Mr. Shore's music.
