This was a forthright, noble performance, powerful for the same stark straightforwardness that characterised Runnicles's reading of the Pärt.
Mr. Domingo's noble performance establishes Boccanegra as one of those rare roles where stature transcends voice type.
Kurt Masur conducted the New York Philharmonic and the New York Choral Artists in a noble performance of Brahms's "German Requiem" in September.
In Mr. Pollini's noble performance, Liszt's great Sonata in B minor, which is more a fantastical than many works called fantasies, sounded organic and inexorable.
The wobble that has worked its way into his voice in recent years hardly showed itself on Thursday, yielding, for the most part, to a firm, even noble, performance.
But Viggo Mortensen puts in a noble performance, and the cinematography is stark.
While not music royalty, they gave a noble performance just the same.
But I've always been especially affected by the noble Karajan performance from La Scala in 1956.
Readers of "Jesus' Son" may be stunned to find that Michelle, a character whose abortion figures in one of the stories and about whom we never learn much more, has become Samantha Morton, whose noble, fearless performance gives the movie an emotional depth and coherence not found in the book.
Keith DeCandido, in a review for Tor.com, commended Stiers' acting, saying that he gave "a noble, nuanced performance as Timicin".
