dress rehearsal
a final practice
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IN THE PRESS
DRESS REHEARSAL for Olympic opening ceremonies to shut down Vancouver vehicle traffic
(CANWEST News Service - News Headline)
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Space shuttle Endeavour's crew members have completed their pre-launch training and DRESS REHEARSAL drills for their upcoming mission.
(Central Florida News)
(CANWEST News Service - News Headline)
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Space shuttle Endeavour's crew members have completed their pre-launch training and DRESS REHEARSAL drills for their upcoming mission.
(Central Florida News)
Did you
know?
dress rehearsal
noun phrase
- the last time a play, opera, dance, etc. is practised before the real performance and is performed with the clothes, stage and lighting exactly as they will be for the real performance
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The Last Dress Rehearsal
The great tenor Luciano Pavarotti had organised a highly-anticipated formal retirement from operatic performance by taking on another dramatic tenor role —Puccini's Tosca — at the New York Met in 2002. Pavarotti sang the dress rehearsal but cancelled the performance just a few hours before he was to go on.
His manager begged him to go through with it or at least show up to take a bow for those who had paid as much as $1,800 a seat to hear his final performance. Pavarotti refused, saying he had the flu.
Pavarotti still performed a total of 379 times at the Met. 357 of them were in fully staged opera productions.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Some theatres let the general public view their dress rehearsals for free."
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Thanks to Brigitte for suggesting today's word!
noun phrase
- the last time a play, opera, dance, etc. is practised before the real performance and is performed with the clothes, stage and lighting exactly as they will be for the real performance
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The Last Dress Rehearsal
The great tenor Luciano Pavarotti had organised a highly-anticipated formal retirement from operatic performance by taking on another dramatic tenor role —Puccini's Tosca — at the New York Met in 2002. Pavarotti sang the dress rehearsal but cancelled the performance just a few hours before he was to go on.
His manager begged him to go through with it or at least show up to take a bow for those who had paid as much as $1,800 a seat to hear his final performance. Pavarotti refused, saying he had the flu.
Pavarotti still performed a total of 379 times at the Met. 357 of them were in fully staged opera productions.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Some theatres let the general public view their dress rehearsals for free."
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Thanks to Brigitte for suggesting today's word!
