Sentence examples for at the first performance from inspiring English sources

AT the first performance of an early run of "Amerissiah" in 2008, Derek Ahonen, the director and playwright, was becoming increasingly, intensely angry.

It was clear at the first performance that the young audience were primed for this standoff.

But at the first performance of "Playboy," in Dublin in 1907, there were actual riots.

At the first performance I attended, the Ailey dancers did some aloof Naharin-style callsin calls.

At the first performance it was presented in a staging by Peter Sellars that also included dance and film.

For the living, those present at the first performance in 1962, the contemporary resonances were all too clear.

At least the first performance in a run allows for a hedge: the production may settle in a bit over the coming weeks.

The program began with a work by Jonathan Harvey, who died in December at 73 — the first performance outside Europe of Mr. Harvey's mystical "Sringara Chaconne".

The Harvard musicologist reconstructs the shock of the new at the first performances of five musical masterpieces.

At the first performances of Twelfth Night, there was probably someone like Malvolio standing outside the gates of the Globe, handing out leaflets.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Philip Glass was not at the first performances of "Kepler," his opera about the German mathematician and astronomer that opened here at the Spoleto Festival USA on May 26.