George Manahan conducted the orchestra and the small offstage female chorus with real sensitivity.
As wordless offstage chorus sing, Balthazar leaves, having failed to make Frédéri destroy the letters from the Arlésienne which he reads night and day.
Tempo di Mezzo: offstage chorus "Largo a quadrupede"
The opera begins with an offstage chorus in praise of the "stately homes of England."
He gives the solo voices an undefined exoticism, and uses an angelic offstage chorus to provide intimations of mysticism and magic.
Two new offstage choruses of monks in the otherwise abbreviated Cell Scene (Act 1, Scene 1)
An orchestra prologue begins hauntingly with four somber bassoons, and later employs an affecting offstage chorus of Christians.
Prokofiev gave Andrei's aural hallucination to an offstage chorus.
An offstage chorus sings Christmas carols - to rather unseasonal music - as a final Victorian touch.
He falls asleep, and his heartbeat (conveyed by an offstage chorus) stops for ever.