unperformable
- a word derived from perform.
Example Sentences
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“It became in a way unperformable, which I think is a shame.”
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021
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
It was not surprising that many came to assume that Mussorgsky's original work was unperformable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
