Alina

1 free ticket at the Coliseum today 26th of December at 17:00 Stalls - row H

I could find good return tickets today, for the 1.30 pm show (27 Dec). Still available now: 2 good tickets for the same date, 7.30 pm show.

After several years without being able to visit London, I could organize a short trip for the Christmas period. Trying to buy three tickets for the Nutcracker on 27 December, 1.30 pm or 7.30 pm, I could find only one restricted view seat. Is there any other thing to do then to try to check the website for any return tickets and look for Friday Rush tickets on 22 December at 1pm? I has hoping to offer a seat to my daughter for her 25th birthday and to my mother in law for her 80th birthday, so I was looking for rather good (non restring view) seats. I wasn't aware that the shows are already sold out. Thank you everybody for reading.

Yes, I am really interested, thank you.

Thank you, Xandra, for your reply. I totally agree, it makes no sense to compare dancers. I booked the show too see Yasmine after reading the reviews on here, expecting to see a wonderful young ballerina. (Thank you to all the members of the forum who posted reviews 😊). 30 seconds after she started dancing .. I had a lump in my throat, I was .. mesmerized. Which, of course, did not happened with every ballerina I had the chance to see, so it was really special. I did not think one moment of Alina Cojocaru, even if in my eyes she is in an other league, out of this world. But .. this is the subject of another thread. I must say that I often wonder how subjective I am, given that I am ( as my friend) .. Romanian, and Alina Cojocaru is the very reason why I became passionate about ballet. It was a review written by Katherine Kanter (maybe an old or present member of this forum, I’m not sure) qualifying Alina as a genius in 2002 I think, after a performance of Tatiana, that started all this interest in ballet for me.

Sorry * 1:00 am.

I bought a last minute ticket and I saw Yasmine Naghdi and Federico Bonelli on Saturday at 10:00 pm (!). An avid reader of this forum, I was so impatient to see the new Swan Lake and to see Miss Naghdi dance for the first time - and I was really impressed. I was wondering if there is a way to find a complete cast sheet for the show, because in my (free) programme there was none. I was too far away to recognize all the dancers, I just realized that Benjamin Ella replaced Trystan Dyer. I was speechless seeing Yasmine dance, totally captivating. My friend, who is not a balletomane, less so. This intrigued me at first. Then I realized that her only other experience was seeing Alina Cojocaru. And yes, for me there is a big difference! I was amused to see that nobody in the audience was in a hurry to leave before the last curtain call, even if it was 1:00 pm.

It WAS pretty special! They were both breathtaking. I saw Olga Smirnova for the first time. Her dancing is hard to describe in words, a real joy to watch. The atmosphere was so electric! (I’ll remember those standing ovations at the end: I’m from Geneva – it’s really different...) Here are some reviews on La Bayadère: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/arts/dance/in-the-temple-dancers-story-3-important-russian-debuts.html http://bachtrack.com/review-abt-la-bayadere-nyc-may-2014 It helped me a lot that somebody mentioned Olga Smirnova will be dancing on May 28th (on the thread “ABT - when do individual tickets go on sale?”) I love this forum. Thanks to everyone.