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He remained with the D'Oyly Carte company until 1890, playing Piscator in The Carp (a one-act curtain raiser) when it accompanied Ruddigore, and Mr. Harrington Jarramie in Mrs. Jarramie's Genie (another curtain raiser), when it accompanied The Yeomen of the Guard, in each case at the Savoy Theatre in London.
At New York’s Grand Opera House on November 26, 1900, Bergere played Cora, the hosiery model, in David Belasco’s comedy, Naughty Anthony, and the tragic Cho Cho San in the show’s curtain raiser, Madame Butterfly; roles originally played earlier in the year in New York and London by Blanche Bates.
In Mexico and Colombia, for instance, the winners of each tournament play each other at the beginning of the following season for another title, but this is a rather minor season curtain-raiser, akin to national Super Cups in European leagues.
In 2006 however, the championship was revived when it was agreed that the winners of the previous years premierships would play the challenge match as a curtain raiser to the following year's NSW Waratahs and Queensland Reds Super 14 match.
In 2008 he played for the New Zealand Māori side in the curtain raiser to the 2008 World Cup.
He did, however, represent the New Zealand Māori in the curtain-raiser to the Australia v New Zealand World Cup match, kicking one goal and scoring a long-range intercept try.
While serving as music director at the Savoy, Ford wrote the music for a one-act curtain raiser, Mr. Jericho, that premiered there in March 1893.
In October 2008 he was selected in the Indigenous Dreamtime team to play New Zealand Māori, as the curtain raiser to the Australia v New Zealand 2008 Rugby League World Cup match.
For many years, the traditional curtain-raiser to the English international cricket season was a match between Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk's XI and the visitors, played at Arundel Castle.