So into this story of 13th-century conflicts between France and Sicily, Verdi and his librettists inserted a 30-minute ballet with a flimsy dramatic pretext: the governor of Sicily, hosting a ball, presents an allegorical ballet about the four seasons to entertain his guests.
Crystal made her indelible mark in the 1970s when she, in a bit of a public-relations move, hosted a ball by the "House of LaBeija".
Mr. Marshall, in a brocade robe, is host to a ball in the first section, "Dark Mansion," interrupted by Mr. Harris, who delivers a thigh-slapping virtuoso solo as a voodoo priest in a derby.
He is on the bill with Amanda Lepore as a host of a ball at the Lords Hotel in Miami Beach this New Year's, and when he arrived on Tuesday, he said, "I realized I'm one outfit short of fabulous, so I intend to befriend a Palm Beach matron and beg for some fierce fogy chic".
7.30pm, Sky Sports 1. Field of Dreams (6.55pm, Film4) Kevin Costner's baseball drama still packs a poignant punch 27 years later, in which an Iowa farmer finds himself compelled to host a heavenly ball game.
During Samhain, a pagan holiday closely associated with Halloween that also takes place on October 31, the Circle Sanctuary will host a Witches' Ball for which many will dress up.
From there he zipped to Paris for the couture shows and then to Venice, where Dolce & Gabbana hosted a masked ball for 400.
Capote's 'non-fiction novel', In Cold Blood, appeared in January 1966 and was already one of the greatest PR successes in the history of publishing when its author conceived of hosting a masked ball.
Well, this Halloween MoMA PS1 is hosting a drag ball with the help of Candy Magazine, so that previous assumption is pretty much out.
