The other racers line up behind the pole position based on their Saturday performance, forming a two-row grid.

Again, a listener had to think that the Saturday performance would cohere better.

But here he clung to the Saturday performance.

Saturday performances are open to visitors without accommodations, but residents have priority.

She called the Met to withdraw from the Saturday performance - the last in the run - on Friday morning.

Those who wish to attend a patron's party onstage after the Saturday performance will be charged $75, including choice orchestra seats.

The Saturday performance is a black-tie fund-raiser, costing $125 a person.

The Saturday performance was a working version, so there was little in the way of staging.

Sipping a cup of tea a few hours before her Saturday performance, she said: "This was a military maneuver.

Saturday performances are at 4 and 8:30; Sunday at 2 and 7.