Sentence examples for as the first performance from inspiring English sources

Still, the chaos boiled over as the first performance approached.

What kind of a boundary is it, language?" As the first performance approached, though, Mr. Barba was getting nervous.

It was advertised as "the first performance of 2010 to mark this anniversary in this country, possibly even the world".

Not a seat was to be had for what was billed as the first performance of the opera in New York in over 100 years.

This fully staged production is billed as the first performance in New York of an opera written in Tagalog, a leading language of the Philippines.

I didn't want anyone to look at the first concert and peg us -- 'Oh, this is what they're doing.' To the extent that people will look at the John Adams concert as the first performance, I would point out that all the players in the orchestra are graduates of the professional training workshops we've held at Carnegie in recent years.

Or at least it did on Friday, as conducted by Laurent Pillot, at the second performance of the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater's perfectly enjoyable production.

We describe the performances and status of the engineering detector that has been running since April 2003, as well as the first performances of our pre-production array now fully developed.

The song was performed live in 2010, as part of the first performance of all the tracks from The Age of Plastic.

For this reason and also because a stout prima donna had been cast as the consumptive heroine, the first performance was a rare Verdi fiasco.

Among these recordings was the Double Violin Concerto for which, forty years earlier, she had acted as the rehearsal pianist before the first performance.