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[Legend of Love] At first I found it hard to warm to this production, but became engrossed. It is not a very subtle ballet, and some aspects jarred on me- e.g. the hunch backed jesters(!) and some of the costumes... Denis Rodkin was, I thought, impressively precise, powerful and indeed beautiful to look at. I am not quite sure about the rest-it is so different in every way from the current RB run that I've been thinking about so much! what does the forum think?

I see that Francesca Hayward has lead roles in Manon and Alice. Very exciting for her.

Principal Casting Autumn 2014 UK Tour and Nutcracker Principal casting for English National Ballet’s Autumn UK tour and Nutcracker is today announced. Joining English National Ballet from Boston Ballet, Alejandro Virelles makes his debut as Principal with the Company, performing the role of Prince Siegfried alongside Alina Cojocaru’s Odette/Odile in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake. Arguably one of the most popular ballets created, Swan Lake tells the story of Prince Siegfried’s love for the Swan Queen, Odette, and their battle against the evil magician, Rothbart. Deane’s traditional production tours to Manchester (8-11 Oct), Milton Keynes (11-15 Nov), Liverpool (18-22 Nov) and the London Coliseum (11 Dec-4 Jan). Swan Lake also sees lead roles from Ksenia Ovsyanick, who was recently promoted to Soloist and makes her debut as Odette/Odile, and Zdenek Konvalina; Tamara Rojo and the winner of Emerging Dancer 2014 Junor Souza; Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev; and Shiori Kase, who was promoted to First Soloist and makes her debut as Odette/Odile, with Yonah Acosta, who was promoted to Principal. After a critically acclaimed run at the London Coliseum in July this year, Coppélia begins a UK tour to Southampton (15-18 Oct), Oxford (28 Oct-1 Nov) and Bristol (4-8 Nov). Following their debut performance in the lead roles of Franz and Swanilda, Yonah Acosta performs alongside Shiori Kase on tour. Other lead roles in Coppélia include Junor Souza and Lauretta Summerscales; Tamara Rojo and Alejandro Virelles; Erina Takahashi and Fernando Bufalá; and Fernanda Oliveira and Zdenek Konvalina. Coppélia is the comic tale of an eccentric toymaker and his mechanical doll. Dr Coppélius, the toymaker, creates a lifelike Coppélia doll and wishes to bring her to life. English National Ballet's production is choreographed by Ronald Hynd. Léo Delibes' score is played by English National Ballet's full orchestra. Nutcracker returns to the London Coliseum this Christmas from Thursday 11 December 2014 - Sunday 4 January 2015. First performed in 2010 to celebrate English National Ballet’s 60th anniversary, Wayne Eagling’s version has since been seen by over 300,000 people. Making her debut appearance as Clara in this version of Nutcracker is Katja Khaniukova who performs alongside Ken Saruhashi’s debut as the Prince and Daniele Silingardi’s debut as the Nutcracker. Other lead Principals for Nutcracker include Alina Cojocaru, Alejandro Virelles and Junor Souza; Laurretta Summerscales with identical twins Guilherme Menezes and Vitor Menezes, both making their debuts as the Prince and Nutcracker; and Tamara Rojo, Junor Souza and Max Westwell, who makes his debut as the Prince in this production. This is English National Ballet’s 11th production of Nutcracker since it performed its first full length Nutcracker in 1950, its founding year. Since then, English National Ballet has established the tradition of performing Nutcracker at Christmas every year. Casting for Swan Lake at the London Coliseum will be announced shortly. Principal casting in detail Casting is subject to change. Please see www.ballet.org.uk for more details. Swan Lake (in the order of Odette/Odile and Prince Siegfried) Palace Theatre, Manchester Wednesday 8 - Saturday 11 October 2014 0844 871 3019 or www.ballet.org.uk/swanlake Wednesday 8 October - Alina Cojocaru and Alejandro Virelles Thursday 9 October (mat) - Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev Thursday 9 October (eve) – Erina Takahashi and Zdenek Konvalina Friday 10 October – Tamara Rojo and Junor Souza Saturday 11 October (mat) - Erina Takahashi and Zdenek Konvalina Saturday 11 October (eve) - Laurretta Summerscales and Alejandro Virelles Milton Keynes Theatre Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 November 2014 0844 871 7652 or www.ballet.org.uk/swanlake Tuesday 11 November - Alina Cojocaru and Alejandro Virelles Wednesday 12 November - Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev Thursday 13 November (mat) – Begoña Cao and Junor Souza Thursday 13 November (eve) - Erina Takahashi and Zdenek Konvalina Friday 14 November - Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev Saturday 15 November (mat) - Alina Cojocaru and Alejandro Virelles Saturday 15 November (eve) – Tamara Rojo and Junor Souza Liverpool Empire Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 November 2014 0844 871 3017 or www.ballet.org.uk/swanlake Tuesday 18 November - Alina Cojocaru and Alejandro Virelles Wednesday 19 November – Tamara Rojo and Junor Souza Thursday 20 November (mat) – Ksenia Ovsyanick and Zdenek Konvalina Thursday 20 November (eve) - Elena Glurdjidze and Arionel Vargas Friday 21 November – Tamara Rojo and Junor Souza Saturday 22 November (mat) – Shiori Kase and Yonah Acosta Saturday 22 November (eve) – Laurretta Summerscales and Alejandro Virelles London Coliseum Wednesday 7 - Sunday 18 January 2015 020 7845 9300 or www.ballet.org.uk/swanlake Principal casting to be announced shortly Coppélia (in the order of Swanilda and Franz) The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton Wednesday 15 – Saturday 18 October 2014 023 8071 1811 or www.ballet.org.uk/coppelia Wednesday 15 October – Shiori Kase and Yonah Acosta Thursday 16 October (mat) - Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev Thursday 16 October (eve) – Erina Takahashi and Fernando Bufalá Friday 17 October – Tamara Rojo and Alejandro Virelles Saturday 18 October (mat) – Shiori Kase and Yonah Acosta Saturday 18 October (eve) - Erina Takahashi and Fernando Bufalá New Oxford Theatre Tuesday 28 October – Saturday 1 November 2014 0844 871 3020 or www.ballet.org.uk/coppelia Tuesday 28 October – Tamara Rojo and Yonah Acosta Wednesday 29 October - Fernanda Oliveira and Dmitri Gruzdyev Thursday 30 October (mat) – Elena Glurdjidze and Arionel Vargas Thursday 30 October (eve) - Erina Takahashi and Fernando Bufalá Friday 31 October – Laurretta Summerscales and Alejandro Virelles Saturday 1 November (mat) - Fernanda Oliveira and Zdenek Konvalina Saturday 1 November (eve) – Shiori Kase and Yonah Acosta Bristol Hippodrome Tuesday 4 November – Saturday 8 November 2014 0844 871 3012 or www.ballet.org.uk/coppelia Tuesday 4 November – Shiori Kase and Yonah Acosta Wednesday 5 November - Erina Takahashi and Fernando Bufalá Thursday 6 November (mat) – Laurretta Summerscales and Junor Souza Thursday 6 November (eve) – Shiori Kase and Yonah Acosta Friday 7 November - Elena Glurdjidze and Arionel Vargas Saturday 8 November (mat) – Tamara Rojo and Yonah Acosta Saturday 8 November (eve) – Laurretta Summerscales and Junor Souza Nutcracker (in the order of Clara, Prince and Nutcracker) London Coliseum Thursday 11 December 2014 – Sunday 4 January 2015 020 7845 9300 or www.ballet.org.uk/nutcracker Thursday 11 December (press night) – Alina Cojocaru, Alejandro Virelles and Junor Souza Friday 12 December (mat) - Begoña Cao, James Forbat and Ken Saruhashi Friday 12 December (eve) - Erina Takahashi, Zdenek Konvalina and Fabian Reimair Saturday 13 December (mat) - Fernanda Oliveira, Dmitri Gruzdyev and James Forbat Saturday 13 December (eve) – Tamara Rojo, Junor Souza and Max Westwell Sunday 14 December (mat) - Elena Glurdjidze, Arionel Vargas and Nathan Young Tuesday 16 December (mat) - Fernanda Oliveira, Dmitri Gruzdyev and James Forbat Tuesday 16 December (eve) - Tamara Rojo, Junor Souza and Max Westwell Wednesday 17 December (mat) - Elena Glurdjidze, Arionel Vargas and Nathan Young Wednesday 17 December (eve) - Erina Takahashi, Zdenek Konvalina and Fabian Reimair Thursday 18 December (mat) - Begoña Cao, James Forbat and Ken Saruhashi Thursday 18 December (eve) - Alina Cojocaru, Alejandro Virelles and Junor Souza Friday 19 December (mat) - Fernanda Oliveira, Dmitri Gruzdyev and James Forbat Friday 19 December (eve) - Alina Cojocaru, Alejandro Virelles and Junor Souza Saturday 20 December (mat) - Shiori Kase, Yonah Acosta and Fernando Bufalá Saturday 20 December (eve) - Erina Takahashi, Zdenek Konvalina and Fabian Reimair Monday 22 December (mat) - Begoña Cao, James Forbat and Ken Saruhashi Monday 22 December (eve) - Erina Takahashi, Zdenek Konvalina and Fabian Reimair Tuesday 23 December (mat) – Laurretta Summerscales, Guilherme Menezes, Vitor Menezes Tuesday 23 December (eve) - Tamara Rojo, Junor Souza and Max Westwell Wednesday 24 December (mat) - Elena Glurdjidze, Arionel Vargas and Nathan Young Friday 26 December (mat) - Katja Khaniukova, Ken Saruhashi and Daniele Silingardi Friday 26 December (eve) – Laurretta Summerscales, James Forbat and Max Westwell Saturday 27 December (mat) - Shiori Kase, Yonah Acosta and Fernando Bufalá Saturday 27 December (eve) - Fernanda Oliveira, Dmitri Gruzdyev and James Forbat Sunday 28 December (mat) - Alina Cojocaru, Alejandro Virelles and Junor Souza Monday 29 December (mat) - Ksenia Ovsyanick, Max Westwell and Fabian Reimair Monday 29 December (eve) - Shiori Kase, Yonah Acosta and Fernando Bufalá Tuesday 30 December (mat) - Katja Khaniukova Ken Saruhashi and Daniele Silingardi Tuesday 30 December (eve) - Tamara Rojo, Junor Souza and Max Westwell Friday 2 January – Laurretta Summerscales, James Forbat and Max Westwell Saturday 3 January (mat) - Elena Glurdjidze, Arionel Vargas and Nathan Young Saturday 3 January (eve) - Shiori Kase, Yonah Acosta and Fernando Bufalá Sunday 4 January (mat) - Ksenia Ovsyanick, Max Westwell and Fabian Reimair Ends

Has been announced: http://www.operadeparis.fr/saison-2014-2015/ballet And Yikes, POB tickets have increased in price dramatically.

A couple of things which I've picked up from next season's concert brochure: Les Arts Florissants/Rameau: Maitre à danser: "A choreographed staging of two exquisite court ballets". Barbican Hall, Tues 18th November 2014, 7.30 Sunday 19th April, 7.30: New York Philharmonic: Bartok: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin; Debussy: Jeux and "an exuberant semi-staged performance of Petrushka created by New York's innovative production company Giants Are Small. Choreography Karole Armitage; featuring Sara Mearns, principal dancer. (There is a Young People's Concert preceding this at 4 pm, which just features Petrushka - with live puppetry, circus, dancers and visuals - no grownups allowed unless accompanied by children)