Complex sentence: The performance was a huge success; numbers were encored, and at the end the applause for Verdi and the cast lasted an hour This was followed by a tumultuous welcome when the composer, his wife, and Boito arrived at the Grand Hotel de Milan.
Split into simpler sentences: The performance was a huge success; numbers were encored, and at the end the applause for Verdi and the cast lasted an hour. That was followed by a tumultuous welcome when the composer, his wife, and Boito arrived at the Grand Hotel de Milan.