* 1892 – premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.

* The Canadian Encyclopedia-Kain, Karen featuring a clip of Karen's performance in the National Ballet of Canada's 1976 production of Giselle

In January 1997, Queen performed " The Show Must Go On " live with Elton John and the Berjart Ballet in Paris on a night in which Freddie Mercury was remembered, and it marked the last performance and public appearance of John Deacon, who chose to retire.

* 1930 Cambridge Festival Theatre a " melodramatized version " of the novel including a " birthday fete and Rustic Ballet, The part of Lady Audley was played by ( Dame ) Flora Robson and the performance was produced by Tyrone Guthrie.

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form.

The Oakland Ballet, performing in the city since 1965, folded temporarily in 2006 due financial problems and the closure of their performance facility, the Calvin Simmons Theater at the Kaiser Convention Center.

For the first time in four hundred years of world Passion Play history, the people in Negombo, ( Sri Lanka ) mostly Catholics witnessed an entirely innovative change concerning the Biblical Content and the Form of the Passion play tradition with the successful dramatic presentation of a Passion play performance in Ballet style titled “ Tharakayano ” on 29th Sunday April at Kadolkele grounds Negombo.

* Article in Wired magazine about George Antheil and a modern-day performance of Ballet Mécanique

In 2001, the band worked with performance artists Carina Reich and Bogdan Szyberb, and the Royal Swedish Ballet.

On July 23, 1980, Helen Hagnes Mintiks, a Canadian-born violinist and member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, was murdered by stagehand Craig Crimmins during a performance of the Berlin Ballet.

On April 13, 1980, Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, and host Gene Kelly were all scheduled to appear at a Gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to salute the N Y City Center's Joffrey Ballet Company.

The ballet's first complete United States performance was on 24 December 1944, by the San Francisco Ballet, staged by its artistic director Willam Christensen.

The New York City Ballet gave its first annual performance of George Balanchine's staging of The Nutcracker in 1954.

Touré generously supported the ballets ( to the point of building a special rehearsal and performance space in his palace for Ballet Djoliba ) and, until his death in 1984, financed extensive world-wide performance tours, which brought the djembe to the attention of Western audiences.

The Conservatory is home to three pre-professional performance companies: the Ridgefield Civic Ballet, The Junior Dance Ensemble, and the Contemporary Dance Ensemble.

* November 12 – The National Ballet of Canada gives its first performance.

The opera was given its first performance by the Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Opera and Ballet in 1940.

* McCaw Hall, home of the Seattle Opera and shared as a performance space with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, whose ballet school is adjacent.

His first televised performance after coming out of temporary seclusion in Canada was with the National Ballet of Canada in La Sylphide.

The performance style of the Bolshoi Ballet, is typically identified as being colourful and bold, combining technique and athleticism with expressiveness and dramatic intensity.

Around this time she acquired the nickname " Butterfly "— a tribute to her constantly moving hands — for her performance of the Butterfly Ballet in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( she had always hated her birth name, and later legally changed her name to Butterfly McQueen ).

Her career was temporarily damaged for having assisted in hosting a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet during the Second World War, even though it was at President Roosevelt's request.

Peterson first came to public attention in 1974 when he helped ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov defect from the Soviet Union during a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet in Toronto.

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And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.

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The effect of the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis exactly what you would expect from a live performance.

We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance.

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Taken as a whole, though, it was a strong performance from both pianist and orchestra.

Eileen Farrell in the title role, Mignon Dunn as La Cieca and Richard Tucker as Enzo were holdovers from earlier performances this season, and all contributed to a vigorous performance.

The live music from Gambler was only distributed at the performance site in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

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As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

The last performance which issued from his hand was a colossal bust of his friend, the Count Cicognara.

Sculpture and performance art are prominent, and abstract and partially abstracted forms are valued, and were valued long before influence from the Western tradition began in earnest.

Perhaps the manuscript by Shakespeare is a distinct work of art from the play by the troupe, which is also distinct from the performance of the play by this troupe on this night, and all three can be judged, but are to be judged by different standards.

Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life.

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In addition to student and regular members, ACM has several advanced membership grades to recognize those with multiple years of membership and " demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers ".

In October 2000, the Athlon " C " was introduced, raising the mainboard front side bus speed from 100 MHz to 133 MHz ( 266 MT / s ) and providing roughly 10 % extra performance per clock over the " B " model Thunderbird.

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