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Well I'm not aware that KOH has any plans to retire yet, so for various reasons I think it's best not to think about his successor yet. And not for this thread anyway. It was just a slightly knee-jerk reaction to your suggestion! I will now seal my lips

I have to say that at the moment I hope your guess is wrong (though I acknowledge that it's very plausible)... in spite of Acosta's undoubted personal charisma.

All I can say is, please don't keep it to yourself, @Buru!

I suppose the idea is that they're aiming to attract people who wouldn't otherwise book for whatever it is; but surely it would also be helpful if people who do book, book more?!

And indeed the word 'spectacular'! Apart from their stage/film efforts (and even those would not have been 'spectacular' in the circumstances/era), the children (and the adults) led lives of genteel poverty relieved only by what they could earn. I hope this will be good, but I fear that the children will simply be turned into fiery mini-feminists with 21st-century attitudes/vocabulary etc. Will I go to it? Don't know yet!

I can't actually think of any other organisations from whom I don't receive emails/surveys etc when I should.

Yes - I did find with the second rehearsal that stopping the dancers literally every few seconds with purely technical rather than 'artistic' feedback didn't make for very illuminating viewing. But all the dancers were excellent.

Well yes, it is worth researching - but I wouldn't say any of the research would be rewarded by watching this ballet. The nursing/war element is absolutely minimal and imho entirely unconvincing.

Apparently I should have received the survey since I'm not opted out, so they can't at the moment explain why I didn't receive it. They have now sent it to me. Not very encouraging, especially since the same sort of thing happened last year when I realised I was no longer receiving their e-newsletters and they couldn't explain why not.

Yes, I've just done that. Very frustrating!

All the available options on my membership are ticked; what more can I do?!

I made sure quite recently that I am opted in to everything, and haven't received it...

Yes, this is not clear at all; the experimenting does not look voluntary, and at the end he runs some water into the bath, appears to wash his hands and face, and then turns the tap off and gets into the bath, closing the lid. For all we can tell he's just having a nice relaxing sauna-type experience after the trauma of committing murder... Thank you for quoting the Richard Dehmel poem above, @JohnS - it's so beautiful!

I agree, except that all the emphasis at the end is on Siegfried bringing out Odette's dead body - the image of her hovering above cannot even be seen by some of the audience and seems very much like an afterthought (whether or not it was intended like that). So for me, the euphoria of the final music isn't really reflected in what happens on stage. And if the ballet was called 'Odette', it would be OK for the redemption to come solely through her; but I prefer my SL where it's a joint effort and their love for each other comes together to defeat evil, rather than it just being Odette's love for Siegfried. Siegfried has been the victim of VR's evil just as much as Odette was originally, so they should join forces to defeat him.

I'm so sorry, @Lynette H! So disappointing for you.