Knowles performed "Ave Maria" in Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth, Western Australia, on September 25, 2009. Jay Hanna, writing for "The Sunday Times", described the performance as "stunning". Jay Lustig of New Jersey On-Line described the same performance as "operatic". Holly Byrnes of "The Daily Telegraph" while reviewing another stop during the concert tour of Knowles in Australia wrote that her performance of the ballad "guaranteed to have raised the sails of the Sydney Opera House", while Patrick Emery of "The Australian" described her performance during another stop in the same country as "soaring". A live performance of "Ave Maria" is featured on Knowles 2010 live album, "I Am... World Tour". Andy Gill of "The Independent", while reviewing the DVD, gave a negative review for the performance of the song, writing that "if her grotesque over-emoting on 'Ave Maria' is anything to go by, legibility could make things a lot worse." On December 3, 2008, Knowles' performance of "Ave Maria" at the Rockefeller Center, in New York, was broadcast on NBC. A writer from "People" magazine described her performance as "rousing". Knowles sang the song as a tribute to Michael Jackson at the 2008 Essence Music Festival. She later performed the song during the 2009 BET Awards, where she blended it with Sarah McLachlan's song "Angel" in honor to Michael Jackson, following his death. Knowles appeared in an angelic Balmain mini white dress, and according to a writer from "The Daily Telegraph", she performed a "moving version" of "Ave Maria". A writer for the newspaper "The Hindu" commented that the performance of the song was "simultaneously sexy and angelic".