The room was savvy enough to understand why Ms. Vogel gasped upon the mention of "Macbeth," which is not to be uttered in any performance space for fear of bad luck; she instructed the offending participant to leave the rehearsal studio where the boot camp took place, then spin around three times, swear, spit and knock on the door and ask for readmission.
He complained of "sweating blood in rehearsals" and, in 1900, wrote of utter exhaustion after one performance: 'The audience continued for 5 minutes to ask for an encore, and I stubbornly refused … I fell to the ground, and … it took four people to lift me up, I was so tired".
"That was an absolute total and utter disgrace of a performance and some of them should count themselves lucky that they have two-year contracts.
It seems to me that that they have long since forfeited, by their performance and utter lack of judgment, any claim to respectability or credibility.
Instead, take a moment to watch perfection in performance, witness utter humanity in motion. .
And does it matter if the words are uttered in a comedy performance, outside a pub, in a park or at a protest?
Madonna started the performance by uttering the word "God" suddenly, as everything became silent.
Mr. Maazel treated the symphony with utter respect, bringing articulate execution and structural clarity to his performance and eliciting burnished playing from the orchestra.
His biographer, the pantomime librettist J. Hickory Wood, described his act: "He danced on the stage; he danced on a pedestal; he danced on a slab of slate; he was encored over and over again; but throughout his performance, he never uttered a word".
It also becomes a performance requiring ambition, determination, utter concentration and courage.
