Which performance in history do you wish you'd been at?

[EdgeleyRob]

Tallis Fantasia first performance conducted by RVW himself.

Gloucester Cathedral,Sept 6th 1910.
I might even have stayed for Gerontius too.

[MrGongGong]

Tallis Fantasia first performance conducted by RVW himself.

Gloucester Cathedral,Sept 6th 1910.
I might even have stayed for Gerontius too.

Straight to the pub would be the wise action IMV

[EdgeleyRob]

Straight to the pub would be the wise action IMV

[BBMmk2]

Tallis Fantasia first performance conducted by RVW himself.

Gloucester Cathedral,Sept 6th 1910.
I might even have stayed for Gerontius too.

Oh yes! That would have been one for sure! I might play those two works today!

[gurnemanz]

The Austrian premier of Salome in 1906 must have been quite a night. Banned from Vienna, it took place in Graz and was conducted by the composer - who had not conducted the first performance in Dresden. In attendance were Mahler + Alma, Berg, Schönberg, Zemlinsky, Puccini and possibly the 17 year-old Adolf Hitler. (In Thomas Mann's novel, Doktor Faustus, the main character Adrian Leverkühn also attends and after the performance contracts syphilis from the prostitute, Esmerelda.)