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  1. alison
    That's a point. I have a friend who almost drools at the very mention of Petroc - perhaps I should try to persuade her to come along to these cinema relays. Might even make a convert!
  2. alison
    Clapham and East Dulwich Picturehouses Monday daytime, for a start ... It's so difficult to tell from the horrible new webpage, though.
  3. alison
    Ah, in that case I think we got a rather worse version than you? I'd say 2 x about 1 minute, or at least long enough for me to put up with it, then start considering whether I should get up and go and find someone to report it. And then it stopped, so I didn't.
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    I'm really sorry to hear that, Lynette. Can you make an Encore performance (down my way, perhaps?). They aren't normally all on the following Sunday. Sometimes they can be: at others they most certainly aren't. I've had some really poor experiences from them (and when I saw Swan Lake from one the other day it was rather worse than I would have expected) as well as some good ones. It's just so hit and miss where the seats are in relation to the people in front of you.
  5. alison
    Which version of Acosta's Don Q? I think BRB's is generally better. Haven't seen the Nureyev since the RB did it in 2001, so it's difficult to comment.
  6. alison
    Yes, I arrived late, and also got back late after the first interval, so missed some of the talking, but thought some more explanation could have been given about the plot - such as it is - of Different Drummer, just to put it into context. After all, you can't really expect your audience to have read the play - or even seen the opera - especially in this day and age. Did I miss something? Or does the company seem to be as reluctant to talk about it as it does in its printed programmes?
  7. alison
    Good luck, Sophoife. Of course, different company, different venue, different country - it might be different.
  8. alison
    I can There have of course been dancers guesting from other companies apart from the RB.
  9. alison
    That's been my impression during this run, too, to judge by the vocal voices at the end of the work.
  10. alison
    According to the credits at the end, yes. I was quite surprised to find that Matthew Ball was allegedly dancing in Requiem (even Darcey Bussell seemed to think so) and James Hay in Different Drummer - neither turned out to be the case. I thought Danses Concertantes very well filmed - just a shame about the audio in a couple of places, which I hope was merely a broadcast problem rather than a recording one (from what Petroc Trelawney said, it sounds as though it was a nationwide issue). I'm afraid that, unlike Linnzi, it was a big deal for me: sounded like a saw being drawn across rusty wires for a couple of minutes . I hope it was less bad in other cinemas. Very much appreciated the opportunity to see Different Drummer at close quarters, and being able to read Sambé and Hayward rather better than from the front amphitheatre. From there, I had also liked Ball more than Bracewell in Requiem, but again, having seen him in close-up I can see just why people were so enthusiastic about Bracewell in this - the camera seemed almost to be lingering on him, to great effect. Gorgeous. Experienced cinema-broadcast goers probably won't be surprised to hear that Requiem as a whole was rather more crepuscular than usual, but I didn't feel that detracted from it at all. I can understand why the ROH decided to restrict the broadcast to UK only for this one: my cinema was noticeably the least full I've seen it for RB broadcasts for some considerable time. I'm still wondering about the cast selection for Danses Concertantes, though: is Muntagirov absent this week, or something? It did seem rather odd to pick the noticeably more junior case for the cinema relay. And I missed Joseph Sissens in sludgey green: I really liked him in this.
  11. alison
    I can't speak for ENB, but in the case of the RB I thought it was more that First Soloists might be asked to do corps work, but it would generally only be something of a last resort, in an emergency. I don't think you'd expect to see them doing it night after night.
  12. alison
    Cinema cast sheet seemingly a bit of a work of fiction tonight ☹️
  13. alison
    But why would you offer multibuy discounts if you're only bringing one production? Most of their target audience won't be interested in going to see it more than once, I should think.
  14. alison
    But he appears to be doing very nicely where he is, anyway
  15. alison
    Keeping you busy today, Jan!
  16. alison
    What a shame, although I had been expecting it. Never mind, I'm sure Lamb will be great - and we assume there's one recording of that cast safely in the bag anyway.
  17. alison
    Some impressive names there ...
  18. alison
    Is this the one BRB used to do until it was replaced by the Bintley version? I only ever saw it the once, at Sadler's Wells, way back.
  19. alison
    I suspect that, at this stage in her career, the chances of seeing her in a lead role are very low. Plus of course she's now on maternity "leave" anyway, so won't be dancing for some time.
  20. alison
    Zurich is in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, so I'd think that logically German would be the language to go for, even if it's only a few words. There's absolutely no point in trying for Swiss German, which apparently varies greatly across the country (Roger Federer's Basel dialect is pretty impenetrable). And I gather the public perception of Swiss people being bilingual, or even trilingual, isn't very accurate - it's certainly not a given that a native German speaker will also speak good French, or vice versa.
  21. alison
    Looking back through the earlier posts, I couldn't work out what the original announced end date was. I guess I must have missed it.
  22. alison
    Ah, sorry - I was assuming they'd only just released the news. I'm a couple of days behind on the Links.
  23. alison
    https://www.sarasotaballet.org/24-25-season-overview/ Including Sir Peter Wright's Giselle, Ashton's Romeo & Juliet, A Wedding Bouquet, Napoli Act III, Rubies, Serenade, In The Night, and a visit from Mark Morris Dance Company.
  24. alison
    Okay, ticket has been returned to the box office.
  25. alison
    I'm assuming "Oregon" should read "Onegin"?!
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