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  1. Lizbie1
    Aren't we straying into speculation territory here?
  2. Lizbie1
    Could be!
  3. Lizbie1
    I think there's a medium to be struck. Having Siegfried just lie there risks making him look useless and not worth Odette's time. It's also unintentionally comic.
  4. Lizbie1
    I didn't - must have been mistaken!
  5. Lizbie1
    It was post Christmas last time and I think it sold well. Can't be sure though!
  6. Lizbie1
    We could have Nutcracker as well. Coppelia was programmed as well as Nutcracker last time.
  7. Lizbie1
    I certainly felt safer once I'd taken a few steps back from my chair!
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    The first time was a bit alarming but I adjusted after a few minutes and don't give it a thought now. Having had vertigo temporarily once I do sympathise with those who can't stick it. Much worse IMO is the front row of the Paris Opera Garnier top tier: I made it through the performance but did NOT adjust to that.
  9. Lizbie1
    I was aware of the size difference - that POB is a very large company by most standards is hardly a secret - but did a count to check.
  10. Lizbie1
    Yes, much more recent - five years ago, the Ball run.
  11. Lizbie1
    I wasn't expecting a ballet but I was expecting something more choreographically inventive (and better danced TBH). I agree he has some very good ideas and insights. Like some others who've posted, I have a lot of respect for MB so don't want to badmouth him, but I've tried him several times and have to conclude he's not for me.
  12. Lizbie1
    This is not so. ENB has ~70 dancers on the payroll and the RB has ~100 (including Aud Jebsen and character dancers). Paris has about 150.
  13. Lizbie1
    This reminds me of the one and only (chance!) conversation I have had with a POB dancer, before I knew anything about the ranks there. She said she'd just been performing in Swan Lake and was a Sujet. I asked "petit cygne?" and was politely but firmly corrected, "grand cygne."
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    This is my experience - a little German goes a long way. My German is very ropey these days so I often revert to English after an intial attempt and have never been made to feel bad about it. As long as you're polite about it and don't just assume everyone speaks English you'll be fine.
  15. Lizbie1
    It's probably best to quote their own website: AT ANY TIME FROM PUBLICATION OF THE SCHEDULE You can easily place binding orders in writing as of now using the online form on the online schedule. Three months before the performance date, all orders will be processed and half of all available tickets will be allocated. If demand exceeds the available ticket contingent, tickets will be allocated at random. If we are unable to fulfill your ticket request, we will notify you in writing. Orders can only be cancelled as long as processing has not yet begun. https://www.staatsoper.de/en/ticket-info i.e. they choose the seat for you from the price band(s) you have specified. The remaining half are made available online etc. from two months before. It's been a while since I've been to Munich but some of what I've quoted above feels new: I don't remember their saying before that half of tickets are held back. I could be mistaken, however!
  16. Lizbie1
    Studying music at Southampton University is very different to "training in a performing art", which happens at a conservatoire such as RCM, GSMD, etc. Putting it in probably oversimplified terms, it's similar to the difference between studying history of art and going to art college. She is unlikely to have had any expectations of a performing career on the back of her degree alone. To have one the usual route would be to go on to postgraduate studies at a conservatoire. (I studied music.)
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    I have a lot of conflicting thoughts on this subject but I'm not sure this kind of claim hangs together. In the last few decades there has been a huge expansion of vocational courses in creative subjects in tertiary education but I don't see a corresponding increase in either amateur participants or audience members. This may be at least partly down to primary and secondary schools downgrading performing arts but that is not the subject at hand here. And for the record, cultural development of young minds was not as standard in earlier generations as I sometimes see claimed here: my primary school in the 80s had a nativity play, some occasional movement-to-tape sessions - laughably labelled "drama" - and we were sometimes plonked in front of Music Time, which was enough to put anyone off for life. That was it. There were no school trips to anywhere more culturally enriching than Thorpe Park. If your primary school offered more, you were lucky.
  18. Lizbie1
    I'm not so sure about the view from the circles at Munich - I was once pretty central but a couple of rows back and I had no view of some fairly crucial action going on at the sides in Kameliendame. Depending on degree, further round (with the possible exception of the front row) is, IMO, strictly for opera. The ballot system doesn't help, either.
  19. Lizbie1
    @TSR101 I'm not entirely sure what it is that you want. Is it that casting shouldn't be posted here until published on the website, or that discount codes sent to a subset of Friends should be shared here? (I'm not trying to make a point, I'm just curious.)
  20. Lizbie1
    I suspect the £4 is a fair reflection of the cost of (manually) processing refund requests so I'd be very surprised if this were the case.
  21. Lizbie1
    Except that at Glyndebourne if you want a table and haven't brought your own you pay a charge for one of theirs.
  22. Lizbie1
    Maybe the number of people unaware of what might previously have been considered well-understood etiquette has made them feel a "rule" was needed? There are plenty of unspoken rules when going theatres like ROH, such as keeping coughing and unnecessary noise to a minimum. People here often lament that ROH doesn't work hard enough to promote good behaviour and police bad. I don't think it's such a bad thing that patrons of the bars and café should now stand a better chance of getting a table.
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    I'd suggest that the "rules" haven't changed and their understanding of them was imperfect. It does seem a bit heavy handed but I've always taken it as read that you should only use the tables if you have bought food and drink there. If I'm eating something I bought elsewhere I'll just perch on a chair or bench that doesn't have a table - it's perfectly doable. Tables are in quite short supply at ROH and are clearly positioned so as to be associated with the bars and café - it seems reasonable that people who've bought from them take precedence over those who haven't.
  24. Lizbie1
    This sounds a laugh a minute.
  25. Lizbie1
    I had only the RBS show to book for this morning and was all done and paid by the time 0902 clicked around on my laptop. I think that's a record for me!
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