Mr. Domingo, 64, made the announcement in full costume, with a towel around his neck, during an intermission round-table discussion after he sang Siegmund in the second act of Wagner's "Walküre," broadcast on Saturday from the Metropolitan Opera.
Clinton was also surrounded during intermission, and received another round of applause when her presence was proudly referenced during the cast's farewell speech after the show, the Times reported.
After an intermission and a final round of questions and answers, the judges decided Miss Venezuela and Miss US Virgin Islands would tie for 4th Runner Up, Miss Puerto Rico would take 3rd Runner Up, Miss Argentina would be 2nd Runner Up, and Miss Paraguay would be 1st Runner Up, making Miss Mexico the new reigning Queen of the Universe, a mere six hours after the doors to the event opened.
It includes several rounds of smørrebrød with an intermission for meaty herring, which might come pickled with juniper berries, in a spicy tomato compote, or in a mustard tarragon cream.
After a thirty-minute intermission, the audience returns to a theatre in the round: there are no more partitions.
Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini," with Olli Mustonen as the piano soloist, rounded out the first half and after the intermission Mr. Masur conducted Liszt's "Préludes" and Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite".
You knew that when you watched actors on stage that they were just as fully rounded - physically, I mean - as the people in the lobby at intermission.
Part 2, after the intermission, breathlessly crosscuts among a car racing to cut off a train, the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Round 2 of Babylon versus Persia.
led, 42-41, at intermission.
