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It is written in five "acts," with entr'actes that often bring in briefly-mentioned side characters and expand upon them.

It resembles the entr'actes he called knee plays in his first great international success, the 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach," which he created with composer Philip Glass.

It could be heard as the missing entr'acte connecting the distant worlds between the current Los Angeles Opera double bill of Purcell's opera and Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle."

The film breaks for an intermission and grandiose entr'acte music.

It was paid, and another round commanded, as if the two men were hurried, as indeed they were, for it was during an entr'acte at the opera that they had slipped out for liquid refreshments.