They all went on to the foyer of the ballet, which was already full of people. The Comte de Chagny was right; no gala performance ever equalled this one. All the great composers of the day had conducted their own works in turns. Faure and Krauss had sung; and, on that evening, Christine Daaé had revealed her true self, for the first time, to the astonished and enthusiastic audience. Gounod had conducted the “ Funeral March of a Marionnette ;” Reyer, his beautiful overture to Siguar ; Saint Saëns, the “ Danse Macabre ” and a “ Rêverie Orientale ;” Massenet, an unpublished Hungarian march; Guiraud, his “ Carnaval ;” Delibes, the “Valse lente” from Sylvia and the “Pizzicati” from Coppelia . Mlle.