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unperformable

  • a word derived from perform.
    perform
    verb (used with object)
    to carry out; execute; do.

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The change was deliberate: “Coming off an album that is almost unperformable live, I definitely wanted the live show to reflect this record a little bit more,” Rose said.

From New York Times Aug. 28, 2013

In Vienna between 1862 and 1864, Tristan had more than 70 rehearsals before the opera house gave up and thought the thing unperformable.

From The Guardian Dec. 20, 2012

For a play once thought to be unperformable, “All’s Well” crops up quite a bit.

From New York Times May 17, 2011

Though the composer grandly pronounced Tristan "the greatest musical drama of all time," opera houses in Dresden, Berlin, Vienna and Munich rejected it as "unperformable."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not surprising that many came to assume that Mussorgsky's original work was unperformable.

From Time Magazine Archive