He created a stage-wide frieze in front of the house curtain for 11 of his puppeteers to animate the program's second work, Stravinsky's 1920 "Pulcinella" (here in its later suite form).

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This includes discounted tickets, shortened evenings, earlier house openings, curtain talks.

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So emotionally drained was the audience at Saturday afternoon's performance at the Metropolitan Opera that silence lingered in the house for several moments after the curtain fell.

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As an example, the only way that New York's landmark Lever House could be saved was to completely remove its deteriorated curtain wall.

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