But any shortcomings aside, on one count Mr. Heggie's opera was an undeniable success: The end of its maiden voyage was greeted with a sustained, rousing ovation, with shredded programs fluttering down from the highest seating level.
Mr. Obama, nearing the end of his maiden overseas trip, made an effort to connect with the young people assembled before him in Istanbul's Tophane-I-Amire Hall, a centuries-old exhibition hall.
This was even true towards the end of their maiden campaign, when inspiration dwindled and mistakes began to proliferate, as they managed to pull themselves sufficiently together to beat other teams who were enduring difficult spells, deservedly toppling Tottenham and Aston Villa.
Twenty seven minutes later the screech of wheels and a whoosh of a parachute, signaled the end of the maiden voyage of Concorde, one of only two supersonic passenger planes to ever fly.
At the other end of the deal, Maiden Lane will invest some of its first fund in syndicated deals that it will hand pick.
Nearby, he said, was the site of the Cunard berth where the unsinkable Titanic was supposed to tie up at the end of its history-making maiden voyage in 1912.
(The end of the use of bal maidens did not mean the end of female workers in those mines that survived; women continued to work in administrative roles until the final collapse of the Cornish mining industry in the late 20th century).
And as one of the tale end doing the maiden speech of my colleagues in the SNP I've noticed that my colleagues quite often mention Rabbie Burns a lot and they all try to form this intrinsic connection between him and their own constituency and own him for themselves.
Russia's first new-generation fighter jet since the end of the Cold War made its maiden flight in January.
