First Performances Quotes
- The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,… — Samuel Johnson
- I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
- On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led… — Leonard Slatkin