Jacques Chirac may have hoped to be remembered as the dapper president and diplomatic heavyweight who retired from the world stage to become the unofficial grandfather of his nation.
For years characters like Giselle, Manon and Juliet — reborn in Ms. Ferri's vivid imagination — have transcended the stage to become flesh and blood.
In 1996 he quit the stage to become director of the ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he spent three unhappy years.
Justin Macdonnell, a former artistic director of the Miami center, initially approached Harlem Stage to become a partner in producing "Makandal," Mr. Rux recalled.
Mr. Rattner, 51, left Lazard in 2000, starting an investment firm, the Quadrangle Group, to break free of the firm and its associations with Mr. Rohatyn, the deal-making icon who gave him the stage to become a star.
Aided by his Sky teammates, especially Chris Froome, he wore the yellow jersey for 13 consecutive stages to become the first British winner of the race in its 99th edition.
Earlier, Mr Salmond acknowledged that his long-cherished dream of leading his nation to independence was over, telling supporters in Edinburgh Scotlandnd has by a majority decided not at this stage to become an independent country.
He said: "It is important to say that our referendum was an agreed and consented process and Scotland has by a majority decided not at this stage to become an independent country.
It was not until eight years later that Fidelio, heavily revised by Beethoven himself and a new librettist, returned to the Vienna stage, to become one of the classics of the German theatre.
In his concession speech, Salmond declared that Scotland had "decided not, at this stage, to become an independent country," a statement that raised the possibility of another referendum on the matter at some point in the future.
