Sentence examples for performance of the role from inspiring English sources

The comedic actress Harriet Harris's performance of the role is oddly reminiscent of the two best white drag performers of the past decade: John Epperson as Lypsinka, and Justin Bond, of Kiki and Herb.

In Erie Mills's performance of the role, that fire is white hot.

Only last year she had given a sour, flashy performance of the role.

In the performance of the role, as in the writing of it, the true interests of the playwright emerge.

But what makes this an extraordinary evening is Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's Dido, the greatest performance of the role I have ever heard.

Ana Sophia Scheller, on Saturday evening, had technique without freshness; she danced as if this were her thousandth performance of the role.

And she may feel, in the performance of this role, the emotional extremity Gilbert attributes to herself.

But Ms. Netrebko is now gracing the stage of the Vienna State Opera with her first performances of the role in a production by Falk Richter.

Viardot herself gave about 150 performances of the role in the space of three years, relying by then more on dramatic effect than pure vocal prowess but still astonishing audiences.

And besides, the movies' archetypal Holmes, Basil Rathbone, was in modern dress in all but the first 2 of his 14 performances of the role in the late 1930s and the '40s.

The year 1955 saw her triumphant performance of the title role in the National Broadcasting Company's television production of Tosca, and she sang leading roles in other operas on television in the next few years.