command performance

Meaning: (archaic)Adramatic,musical, or similarentertainmentperformed before amonarchor otherhead of state, especially in a circumstance where that ruler has requested or ordered the performance.c.1900,Richard Harding Davis,Billy and the Big Stick:"I've been giving a‘command’ performancefor the president," explained the actor modestly.1974February 4, “People”, inTime:Following a 1973 White Housecommand performanceand a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra made his first nightclub appearance in three years at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace.1998October 4,Alvin Klein, “Theater: A Potential New Star For an Ever-Rarer Art”, inNew York Times, retrieved11 October 2011:And he won't let his audience forget that he was part of acommand performancefor Queen Elizabeth II in June.; (idiomatic,by extension)Atask,activity, or otherassignmentwhich oneundertakesin order to satisfy someone inauthority, such as anemployer.2002,Susan Wittig Albert,Indigo Dying, Penguin, published2004,→ISBN,page26:Some big client of Arthur's is coming to town, and Sally is supposed to entertain the man's wife. She says it's acommand performance.

Examples:

EN: I gave a command performance once.
ES: Una vez me obligaron a dar un recital.
EN: Well, you know, practically a command performance.
ES: - Es como si fuera otra actuación.
EN: -A command performance?
ES: -¿ Una función a pedido?
EN: In the evening, command performance of the opera.
ES: Por la noche, una ópera: 'Aida', en alemán.
EN: Her Majesty hasn't arrived for command performance, is that it?
ES: Su Majestad no ha llegado para ordenar que empieces, ¿no?
EN: A command performance.
ES: Una función de gala.
ES: - Sí. Es una orden real.
EN: This is a command performance for the king.
ES: Es una petición del Rey.
EN: - She wore this glove in Romeo and juliet... at the command performance at Covent Garden.
ES: - Llevó este guante en Romeo y julieta, en el concierto privado que dio en Covent Garden.
EN: Besides... I once met Alice Alquist. I was taken to hear her... at a command performance when I was 12 years old... and afterwards to meet her in the artists' room.
ES: Además, conocí a Alice Alquist hace tiempo.
EN: After me ancestor who gave the command performance Before king James ii at Hampton court.
ES: Como mi abuelo, que actuó ante Jacobo II en Hampton.
EN: A command performance?
ES: - Oh, una actuación excelente.
EN: They didn't think so at the command performance last year.
ES: Lo mismo dijo el rey el año pasado.
EN: We've got a command performance of our own. Come on. Fred:
ES: También nosotros tenemos un número que preparar.
EN: What's tonight's command performance?
ES: ¿Cuál es el plan de esta noche?
EN: He ordered a command performance of Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Theatre.
ES: Ordenó una representación de "El Lago de los cisnes".

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