"Sweeney Todd," with its sumptuous score by Mr. Sondheim and scabrous book by Hugh Wheeler, is by now a familiar commodity to lovers of musical theater.

"The Sleeping Beauty," set to one of Tchaikovsky's most sumptuous scores, is a standard against which performers may be measured.

Christoph von Dohnanyi (Miss Silja's husband) led the Philharmonia Orchestra of London in a sumptuous account of Strauss's most orchestrally sumptuous operatic score.

The sumptuous score was by David Lang.

Prokofiev's sumptuous score must be met, it seems, with ever more sumptuous production values, and no one has yet managed an incandescent arabesque when covered with brocade.

More conventional-minded theatergoers can take comfort in Mr. Yeston's sumptuous score and scintillating abbreviated star turns from Jane Krakowski and Chita Rivera.

The six dances they presented, some narrative and some abstract, were choreographed and staged by their teachers with an eye for subtle theatricality, to sumptuous scores by Pandit Bhubaneshwar Mishra and Pandit Jasraj.

Conventionally minded theatergoers can take comfort in Mr. Yeston's sumptuous score and scintillating abbreviated star turns from Jane Krakowski (Tony winner for best featured actress in a musical) and Chita Rivera.

The imaginative and sumptuous Romantic score instantly captured the fancy of the Paris public, critics, and fellow composers alike, making Igor Stravinsky famous literally overnight.

"The Sleeping Beauty," which is blessed with a sumptuous score by Tchaikovsky, received its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1890.