The first performance mentioned in the local newspaper was Jean-Baptiste Lully's, Atys, which was given on 19 November 1700.

But he recalled that Rameau had once had a private performance of his opera Armide, behind closed doors, just for himself alone.

Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was first performed on December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed the first performance in Berlin.

In 2005 a performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel stirred up the local press since the performance contained suggestions of pedophilia and incest.

* 1607 – L ' Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.

* 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.

* 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.

No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one " unauthorized " release in the early 1980s on the Voce Label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice ( K. 51 ) for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne ( K. 50 ), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place.

However, not long after the second performance, the opera became so successful that the fame of Paisiello's opera was transferred to Rossini's, to which the title The Barber of Seville passed as an inalienable heritage.

Though an excellent opera, it is rarely heard uncut today, as the original score runs more than four hours in performance.

Moreover, the firm of Ricordi had declined the score of the opera, which had been taken up by their rival, Lorenzo Sonzogno, who arranged the first performance in neutral Monaco.

Years later, Arturo Toscanini recorded the music for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony Orchestra which complements the 1947 Toscanini performance of the complete opera.

Scott attended a performance of it and recorded in his journal, " It was an opera, and, of course, the story sadly mangled and the dialogue, in part nonsense.

* 1911 – Richard Strauss ' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

* 1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

* 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

* 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.

In the operas of Lully these ' divertissements ' were sometimes linked to the main plot, or performed at the close of the performance.

Bogart was Academy Award | Oscar nominated for his performance.

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A poster advertising a performance of the pantomime at the Olympic Theatre in New York 1868, starring George L. Fox ( clown ) | George L. Fox

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Bunun dancer just before her performance in Lona, Nantou | Lona, Nantou County, Taiwan

* 1845: Poésies ( complete ) | First performance of comedy " Le Tricorne enchanté "

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As the shrewish Mildred in Of Human Bondage ( 1934 film ) | Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), Davis was acclaimed for her dramatic performance.

Jezebel ( film ) | Jezebel ( 1938 ) was Davis's second Academy Award-winning performance

The Monge de Montaudon receiving a Eurasian Sparrowhawk | sparrow hawk as a prize for his performance in a contest

Graph showing Accrington's performance from the first season of the English football league system | English Football League in The Football League 1888 – 89 | 1888-1889 to The Football League 1892-93 | 1892-1893 when they resigned from the league.

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The title character from a 19th century performance of Richard Wagner | Wagner's opera Siegfried ( opera ) | Siegfried

Murray Hill ( performer ) | Murray Hill, New York City comedian and downtown performance artist.

A screenshot of a 1967 performance by Gaye and Terrell during taping of the Today ( NBC program ) | Today Show.