Did you know…?
The longest round of applause lasted one hour and 20 minutes.
On July 30, 1991, legendary opera tenor Plácido Domingo performed the title role in Verdi’s Otello in Vienna. After his performance, Domingo made 101 curtain calls and the audience clapped for one hour and twenty minutes, setting a new world record for the longest applause ever. It wasn’t a world record for curtain calls, however. On February 24, 1988, Luciano Pavarotti received 165 curtain calls for his performance in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Berlin.
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