It is a giddying effect, a blazing ballet that thrilled the first-night audience.

Instead, they watched the first-night audience deliver its own verdict: on its feet and willing to applaud, it seemed, for eternity.

The first-night audience inevitably includes a lot of people who don't often go to movies but who know what they like.

When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos, they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece.

The Metropolitan Opera's fashionable first-night audience was a blessing to be counted on Monday.

The second series was broadcast on BBC One from 29 March 2005, to a first-night audience of 6.7 million.

One wonders what the first-night audience in Frankfurt back in 1943 thought of all that.

It was reported that members of the first-night audience familiar with the original Urfaust version cheered on hearing the amendment.

The first-night audience leaped into the spirit.

In his introductory remarks to a first-night audience, the general director, Christopher Keene, welcomed many people, among them newcomers to opera.