To those choreographers, Maillot believes he's offering an exceptional opportunity for play.
Premier's chief executive, Gavin Darby, said: "This is an exceptional opportunity for us to gain a major strategic partner which understands our business and supports our growth ambitions".
"This is an exceptional opportunity for the Football League to work with a broadcaster that will schedule our matches in a prime time slot," said Shaun Harvey, chief executive of The Football League.
Rattle, who in September 2017 is due to return to his native Britain to lead the London Symphony Orchestra, said before the concert: "This is an exceptional opportunity for Germany and Europe to welcome an exceptional people.
This Cadogan Hall concert, which featured the 2015 winners in four categories, was part of an international tour with Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra, and thus an exceptional opportunity for each to make the kind of impact that the pianist Daniil Trifonov achieved after the equivalent tour in 2011.
From 1962 Sunday lunchtimes at the Coleherne, an otherwise gay pub in Old Brompton Road, provided an exceptional opportunity for amateurs to sit in with him, backed by a plethora of percussionists, with figures as musically diverse as Joe Harriott, Graham Bond, John Surman, Davey Graham and Philly Joe Jones taking their turn.
Exceptional opportunities for employment in industry also tend to deprive agriculture of much of the best labour, in spite of policies designed to prevent this.
Advertising has also been long associated with extravagant parties, which are a point of pride for many agencies, as well as exceptional opportunities for foreign travel.
"The rising investment in Dundee Waterfront, and the city region, is generating hundreds of millions of pounds of additional revenue and creating exceptional opportunities for ambitious businesses.
The rapid expansion of high-spatial resolution optical sensors and imagery over the last decade presents exceptional opportunities for quantifying visible attributes of geomorphic systems.
