In modern performances of responsorial chants, the traditional responsorial performance is not always maintained.
I don't think Mozart would have wanted the "Jupiter" to glare and harden as it does in modern performances.
However, where the ritual has continued in empty form long after the full significance of its content has been lost, as in modern performances of mumming plays or the Padstow Horse, it becomes little more than a quaint entertainment.
Hebe's dialogue is occasionally restored in modern performances, particularly her lines in the scene following No. 14.
In modern performances the latter part of Eumete's role is usually transposed to a lower range, to accommodate the tenor voice throughout.
She has also appeared in modern performances, assuming the title role of Dido, Queen of Carthage at the Globe Theatre in London in 2003, which she described as "a dream of a part".
According to the popular press, stress is ever present in our modern, performance oriented and demanding society [ 109].
For theater buffs (and for a former drama club president like myself), it is a heady experience to peek into stars' dressing rooms in gilded palaces that radiate theatrical magic in a way that modern performance spaces lack.
He also edited the newly discovered manuscript of Paganini's Fourth Concerto and gave its first modern performance, in 1971.
Even without that provenance, there was much to enjoy and ponder on – details of Mahler's scoring that are obscured or overwhelmed in conventional modern performances, which Jurowski's generally sedate tempi helped to clarify, too.
