Tonight in Boston the opera will receive its first modern performance and audience members can decide for themselves.

However, in modern performance it is often performed without scordatura.

But the implications of this discovery for modern performance have turned out to be less clear than was at first assumed.

In modern performances the role is often taken by a counter-tenor.

The first modern performance took place in 1977, 74 years after its rediscovery.

The brutal scene has often been cut in modern performance.

It was immediately obvious that the heart of the modern live performance is the amplifier.

The running time of a typical modern performance is about 135 minutes (excluding intervals).

In modern performances, the role is performed by a soprano.

Ogdon gave the first modern performance of the work in 1969.