During the first work, Stravinsky's "Apollo," a ballet in two tableaus, the musicians looked and sounded a little demoralized, though this may have been the impression left by the super-refined approach that Charles Dutoit, the chief conductor, took to this delicately textured Neo-Classical score.
Today, not one but two, Tableau Software and Marketo, are debuting on New York stock exchanges.
Breaking the spell in two tableaus were large ensembles of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company.
There are eight tableaux, each recording a stage in the life of the saint.
The three tableaux made by Brian Griffiths out of cardboard, paper and polythene are more mysterious.
There is a final run-through as they rise slowly from sleeping positions on the floor to form four tableaux.
Cast ostensibly in conventional form, Dean's concerto offers fresh perspectives on the soloist's role, with three tableaux each exploring a trumpet persona.
The theme here is the good life and its vacuousness as reflected in the accouterments of a fictional palace hotel in France, arranged in five tableaux.
First performed in Paris in 1936, George Enescu's "tragédie lyrique" in four acts and six tableaux recounting the myth of Oedipus has at last received its UK and Royal Opera premiere in a production from La Monnaie, Brussels.
Edmond Fleg's French libretto is a birth-to-death portrayal of the Oedipus story, in four acts and six tableaux, with the third and fourth acts corresponding closely to Sophocles' two Theban plays, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus.
