I worked hard on my two political solos but my real passion and love was for the Western classical solos.

Jacquelyn Scafidi impressed with her aplomb in an elegant classical solo.

Each had a classical solo.

"This will be much easier now," Ms. Parkinson once told her after an exhaustive session on a difficult classical solo.

Mercury played piano (including a classical solo) and did all of the vocals with startling multi-tracking precision.

Its cascade of classical solos and pas de deux shimmers with a refinement that does not mask the choreography's technical difficulties.

The third movement, a waltz, is devoted to a long classical solo by Frivolity, a woman in a short blue tunic, and a female corps.

This was true in the vision scene of Act II, where her classical solo had the purity of its concept as a feminine ideal.

There is also a classical solo stunningly executed by Mikhail Ilyin.

At Lausanne, most contestants tried to compensate for generally lackluster performances of the required classical solos with a showy number in the contemporary or "free" category.