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The rest of "Carmen in 3D" simply documents the opera house production, from beginning to end but without musical entr'actes.
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It's backed up by the final episode you see on screen as you leave the theater: the credits, rolling on a black background over the music of one of the missing entr'actes - which fades out a few bars before the end.
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Instead of stalking the stage, Teresa now sits staring out over the marshes toward the gates of hell, cradling the mandolin on which she accompanies herself in her lyric flights; while to one side a discreet trio in knee-breeches (cello, flute, bassoon) fill in the entr'actes or comment sparingly between stanzas.
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Christopher wrote the incidental music for the new comedy and composed an overture and entr'actes for it -- work for which he was paid pretty liberally.
Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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Tantalising to have all the duels and fighting done during the _entr'actes.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 Various
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And, amid the thunder of the band or the lull of the _entr'actes_, Lily received tidings of her Pa and Ma and details of what happened after her flight, as reported by Glass-Eye Maud.
The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne
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The play was stupid, and the _entr'actes_ were long.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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These she perused during the present and succeeding _entr'actes_.
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During the entr'actes Mr. Gladstone most interestingly talked of his sixty years 'experience of the opera.
My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922
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The _entr'actes_ were short and the curtain was soon up again, and the comic man raised customary laughter by undressing and exposing his nether garments to the public view; then more tragedy, and the final act with its darkened room, its casting lots, and its explosion.
Liza of Lambeth 1919
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