This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year.

There was a concert version in 1933, and there was a semi-staged performance on 28 July 1938.

In 2005 - aged 85 - he directed a semi-staged performance of Handel's serenata Parnasso in Festa at St John's Smith Square in London.

He has also directed several operas for either fully staged or semi-staged performance.

Pantagruel is an international Early Music ensemble specialising in semi-staged performances of Renaissance music.

"My Fair Lady" will be presented by the New York Philharmonic in four semi-staged performances in March.

After the 1891 Lisbon run it was not heard again until 2010 when it was given a semi-staged performance in Agrigento, Sicily.

The opera was given a semi-staged performance as Prom 70 in the 2008 BBC Proms season and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

A semi-staged performance at the Grand Thermae Villa in Rome in 2003 was recorded and has been released on DVD by Kultur Video.

She also recently performed the title role in a semi-staged performances of Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges with the National Symphony Orchestra.