first performance

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For singer and flautist Miadhachlughain O'Donnell, from County Down, the scale of what the group are now doing would have seemed unimaginable during that first performance.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

The only other characters identified in the program are Tybalt and Mercutio—Renan Cerdeiro and Shu Kinouchi, respectively, at my first performance; Addison Ector and Kyle Halford at my second.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

It will be their first performance together since a five-night run at the London Palladium in 2019 and comes off the back of a positive reaction to their recent documentary, Boyzone: No Matter What.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

And my first performance in front of a live audience of strangers, if you will, was at the church when I was 10.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Would survivors and relatives of the Lakota Sioux Indians butchered at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which took place just three years before the symphony’s first performance, have recognised its melodies as theirs?

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall