Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

Her performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.

Her performance rating for the tournament was 2778 against an opposition rated at 2672.

Her best known and most controversial performance was the lead role in the erotic film Emily

" Her performance earned her the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress, and her first Golden Globe Award nomination.

Her performance of the " sleepwalking " scene in the fifth act was especially noted ; Leigh Hunt called it " sublime.

Her performance in Aaja Nachle earned her the record-setting thirteenth nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

* 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

Her performance was praised by a number of critics, including Rob Blackwelder for SPLICEDwire, who wrote about the " dazzling performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar who plunges headlong into the lascivious malevolence that makes Kathryn so delightfully wicked.

School performance in Scotland is monitored by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education.

Her performance received little acclaim, but it convinced Bell, who hated pop music, that Twain should stay well away from it and concentrate on country music.

Her performance was seen on the subsequent televised version of this concert, and can be seen on the CD and DVD releases.

Her performance in the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, described by the theatre writer Phyllis Hartnoll as " proof of greater powers as an actress than she had hitherto shown ", led to a lengthy period during which she was considered one of the finest actresses in British theatre.

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

* Melbourne: 13 July 1901 ( Her Majesty's Theatre ; first performance in Australia )

Her performance at one club impressed a theatrical producer, and he cast her in a play in New York, but that production did not open.

Her performance was called " memorable ... funny and poignant in turns ", and she earned a Tony Award. Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote: " nothing I have ever seen her do prepared me for the loveliness, humor, gift for joyous characterization, and sheer lovableness of her portrayal of Nellie Forbush ....

Her main competitor for the prize was Judy Garland's much heralded comeback performance in A Star Is Born ; playing not only the part of an up and coming actress-singer, but also ironically, the wife of an alcoholic movie star.

Her performance attracted the attention of The Philosopher Kings singer Gerald Eaton, who then approached her to write with him.

Her performance as Maxine Faulk in The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), was well reviewed, and she was nominated a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe.

Her performance earned Lombard an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Her performance won her a Youth In Film Award.

Her vast repertory eventually grew to encompass Carmen, Ulrica ( Un ballo in maschera ), Monteverdi's Octavia ( L ' incoronazione di Poppea ), Dido ( Les Troyens ), Kundry ( Parsifal ), Klytemnestra ( Elektra ) and contemporary roles by von Einem and Orff.

Her roles included Adalgisa, Amneris in Aida, Auntie in Peter Grimes, Azucena, Death in Le Rossignol, Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Filippyevna in Eugene Onegin, the First Norn in Götterdämmerung, Frugola in Il Tabarro, Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel, the Grandmother in Jenůfa, Leocadia Begbick in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Madelon from Andrea Chénier, Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana, Marthe in Faust, Mary in Der Fliegende Holländer, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, the Nurse in Boris Godunov, the Princess in Suor Angelica, Teresa from La Sonnambula, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, and Zita in Gianni Schicchi among others.

Her last Met appearance was on July 6, 1973 in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with Enrico Di Giuseppe as Cavaradossi, Morley Meredith as Scarpia, and Ignace Strasfogel conducting.

Her parents have since divorced and remarried and she has a half-brother Giuseppe Tomasino from her father's second marriage.

Her major roles on stage include Amina in Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula, Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and Lucia in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor ( in both the standard Italian version and the French version Lucie de Lammermoor of 1839 ).

Her father, Giuseppe Levi, a renowned Italian histologist, was born into a Jewish Italian family, and her mother, Lidia Tanzi, was Catholic.

Boito also provided the text to Verdi's cantata Inno delle Nazioni ( 24 May 1862, Her Majesty's Theatre, London ).

Her second appearance in Chicago on 23 November was as Desdemona in the company's first ever performance of Verdi's Otello, and she also sang the role there at a gala performance of Act 4 on 9 December.

Her best recordings include a spectacular rendition of " Io son Titania " from Ambroise Thomas ' Mignon and " Saper vorreste " from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, in which Tetrazzini's personality virtually jumps out of the grooves at the listener.

Her other roles at the Met included the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Isabella in de Falla's Atlàntida, and Santuzza.

Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Arabella.

Her most frequent performances were as Lucia ( 93 performances ), Lakmé ( 50 performances ), Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto ( 49 performances ), and Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville ( 33 performances ).

Her other opera roles included the title role in Handel's Acis and Galatea, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte, and Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff among others.

Her other roles at the Met during these thirteen years included Aida, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Cio-Cio-San in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Elvira in Verdi's Ernani, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Maddalena in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, and the title role in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda among others.

Her later films include Qui comincia l ' avventura ( 1975 ), Fitzcarraldo ( 1982 ), Un homme amoureux ( 1987 ), Mayrig ( 1991 ), Li chiamarono ... briganti!

Her peak of popularity came when she was called to substitute for Kiko Ledgard, the famous presenter of Un, Dos, Tres ..., who had suffered a near-fatal accident.

Her film Os Mutantes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.