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A reason why so many opera goers I know are refusing to go. Opera directors! Put them in Room 101.

I think @trog you may have misunderstood OP, or else I did! I read it as the Wikipedia page listing a truckload of rep, but the company's professional website only listing the last 11 years.

Depressing.

Links – Saturday 20 April 2024 Reviews Birmingham Royal Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol England: Paul Wright, Bristol 24/7 Elixir Festival: Company of Elders & ZooNation Youth Company, The Exchange, Sadler’s Wells, London England: Monica Cox, The Reviews Hub Elixir Festival: Dance On Ensemble, London Story / never ending (Story), Sadler’s Wells, London England: Maryam Philpott, The Reviews Hub Staff, Everything Theatre Hofesh Schechter II, From England with Love, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London England: Tamsin Flower, British Theatre Guide Teresa Guerreiro, CultureWhisper Richard Maguire, The Reviews Hub Mark Monahan, The Telegraph Matthew Paluch, Gramilano Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian New Adventures, Edward Scissorhands, Theatre Royal, Norwich England and touring: Lu Greer, The Reviews Hub Pacific Northwest Ballet, Sweet Fields / The Calling / The Seasons’ Canon, McCaw Hall, Seattle WA: Rich Smith, The Stranger Paco Peña, Solera, Sadler’s Wells, London England: Vera Liber, British Theatre Guide Mary Pollard, Everything Theatre Rambert/Théatre de la Ville, Death Trap (Cerberus / Goat), The Lowry, Salford, England: Jo Beggs, The Reviews Hub David Cunningham, British Theatre Guide San Francisco Ballet, Mere Mortals, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco CA: Saul Sugarman, The Bold Italic Scottish Ballet, Swan Lake (Dawson), HM Theatre, Aberdeen Scotland: Rebecca Buchan, The Press and Journal West Australian Ballet, La Bayadère, His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth WA: Graeme Watson, Out in Perth Previews Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, summer season: Staff Report, The Aspen Times Astana Opera, La Bayadère, Astana Opera House Grand Hall, Astana Kazakhstan: Staff, EL.KZ Atlantic Ballet of Canada, Piaf, Moncton and Fredericton, Canada: Kate Barrio, Telegraph-Journal Ballet Arts, Beauty and the Beast, Carl Perkins Civic Center, Jackson TN: Staff, WBBJTV Ballet Hispanico, Buscando a Juan / House of Mad’moiselle / 18+1, New York City Center, New York NY: Zita Allen, Amsterdam News Ballet Idaho, Carmen / Walking Mad, The Morrison Center, Boise ID: Staff, KTVB7 Grand Kyiv Ballet, Swan Lake, The Newmark Theatre, Portland OR: Staff, KATU2 ABC Inland Pacific Ballet, Cinderella, Lewis Family Playhouse, Rancho Cucamonga CA: A.A. Cristi with photos by E.Y. Yanagi, Broadway World Joffrey Ballet, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ekman), Lyric Opera House, Chicago IL: Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Mixed bill, Tennessee Williams Theatre, Key West FL: Keys Weekly Luxembourg Ballet, Peer Gynt, CAPE, Ettelbruck Luxembourg: Staff, Delano Nashville Ballet, Romeo and Juliet, Tennessee Performing Arts Center Jackson Hall, Nashville TN: Chloe Rabinowitz, Broadway World Ozark Ballet Theater, Cinderella, Bentonville West PAC, Centerton AR: Monica Hooper, The Free Weekly Pacific Festival Ballet, Noah’s Ark, Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks CA: Staff, Simi Valley Acorn Queer the Ballet, Dream of a Common Language, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York NY: Music MCM, Martin Cid Magazine Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Tupelo Tornado / Broken Open / Untwine / Starshadows, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA: Staff, San Francisco Bay Times Texas Ballet Theater, Beauty and the Beast, Dallas and Fort Worth TX: Staff, FTWToday James Wolburg/Alonso Vásquez, Swan Lake, ACT2PV, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Victor Espindola, Out & About Puerto Vallarta News Ramona de Saá has died, legendary Cuban ballet teacher: President of Cuba’s tribute: Staff, Prensa Latina and Cuban News Agency Carlos Acosta and Acosta Dance tribute: Ed Newman, Radio Habana Cuba Ballet Cymru programme supporting children with arthritis: Elizabeth Birt, South Wales Argus Chloe Seaton, ITV News Surgery posed a threat to his career. Now, this Nashville Ballet dancer returns to the stage: Forrest Sanders, News Channel 5 Nashville Venezuelan Ballerina, works at gas station, providing for her family: Jacquelyn Kisic, WINK News National Theatre to adapt Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes, Olivier Theatre, London England: Andrew Gans, Playbill Matthew Hemley, The Stage (paywalled) Stephi Wild, Broadway World Alex Wood, WhatsOnStage Staff Writer, Theatre Weekly News Desk, West End Best Friend World record number of dancers en pointe, Plaza Hotel, New York NY: The Associated Press, ABC News Staff, Hawaii News Now James Barron, The New York Times (paywalled) Features/Interviews Lady Camden aka Rex Wheeler, drag queen ballerina: Jan Wahl, San Francisco Bay Times Seth Collier, dancing from Australia to L.A.: Haley Hilton, Dance Spirit This major champion used ballet to get better at golf. Here’s how dance can benefit your game, too: Keely Levins, Australian Golf Digest Abigail Ending Explained: A Bloody Ballet Where Death Is A Divertissement: BJ Colangelo, Slash Film Where you can take adult ballet classes with Allison DeBona and Rex Tilton (formerly of Ballet West) in Salt Lake City, Utah: Cassidy Swain, ABC4 Good Things Utah The Social Pages Fashion Favorites Came Together For YAGP’s 25th Anniversary Gala: Freya Drohan, Vogue Swiss Fashion House Turns a Stunning River Oaks Manse Into a Grand Fashion Stage to Salute a Houston Ballet Power Woman – Akris and Jul[i]e Kent Fit Together, A Party With a Purpose: Shelby Hodge with photos by Miroma Photography, Paper City And because it's Saturday… Bolshoi Ballet: Standing at The Beeches Stud: Leo Powell, The Irish Field Or if horses under the bonnet are more your jam, Citroën Nods to Annoying Construction Delays with an Epic Ice Ballet: BETC Paris, Little Black Book Paywalled, but you may have access Reviews Dance Theatre of Harlem, Nyman String Quartet #2 / Pas de Dix / Blake Works IV, New York City Center, New York NY: Faye Arthurs, Fjord Review Martha Graham Dance Company, American Legacies, New York City Center, New York NY: Siobhan Burke, The New York Times Repertory Dance Theatre, Gamut: Hallelujah Junction / Marimba / Solfège, Jeanne Wagner Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City UT: Sophie Bress. Fjord Review Sydney Dance Company, ab [intra], The Joyce Theater, New York, NY: Brian Seibert, The New York Times News Mariinsky Dancers Barred From Youth Ballet Gala in New York, Two dancers from the Russian company were set to perform at a benefit for a prestigious competition for young dancers, but they were sidelined after protests by pro-Ukrainian activists: Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times Book Reviews Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham by Deborah Jowitt, reviewed by Marina Harss, The New York Review (paywalled, but free to register to read) Candice Thompson, Fjord Review Features/Interviews Loving Him Meant Facing My Greatest Fear, Living with a disability, I shielded myself from dance. Then I met him: Chloé Cooper Jones, The New York Times Magazine FKA twigs Dances Martha Graham: ‘This Is Art in Its Truest Form’: Gia Kourlas: The New York Times

It's been the UK people who voted for Brexit. It's now their turn (after experiences of desaster) to demand changes from their government. You can do that!❤️

Unbelievable!

An evening of dance and discovery Join us on Thursday 25 April for a collaboration between The Royal Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Black British Ballet. Presented before a live audience in London and in New York City, this special program will highlight the little-known but extensive history of Black dancers in ballet in the UK and US, and will feature a performance by The Royal Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem. 'Insights: Black dancers in ballet - sharing a rich trans-atlantic legacy' will be co-hosted in New York City by Jacob's Pillow and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: https://bit.ly/442VXIM Missed out on a ticket? Livestream the event from 7pm BST on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/446PrRh or at 2pm EST on Dance Theatre Harlem's Facebook page: https://bit.ly/3Q7xf4d https://www.facebook.com/royaloperahouse/posts/pfbid0mMEwZbcF3qkrnue33iPneY6vDeWR5Pn1bHnd8GriAaNvZctFvaoJYWKHRYCJNEpWl

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If you're talking about the national company from a certain island continent @Goeff Whitman, please don't make me cry. The only Ashton we've seen in twenty years is The Dream (twice), Marguerite and Armand (teamed with the fairies last year), and the second and third parts of a triple also including the fairies in 2015, which were Symphonic Variations and Monotones II. Tetley made work on the company. Balanchine does appear on a semi-regular basis. MacMillan does not. Manon and Concerto are the only two pieces of his I can remember in the last twenty years. Robbins - nothing since 2008.

I was recently browsing the Wikipedia entry for a certain national company who will remain nameless, and could t believe all of the Ashtons, Balanchine, tetleys, macmillans and more in the rep. I also was astounded by some of the Ballet superstars to have passed through the doors - including Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev. However… when then looking at the website for this company, the repertoire listed is only from the past 11 years? How much of those hugely important historic works have been left to the wasteland, and will we ever see them again? Geoff

Sadly yes. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/19/sunak-rejects-offer-of-mobility-scheme-for-young-people-between-eu-and-uk

I just think they clearly defined BRB as its own ‘Royal’ company as opposed to being RBS2…. So isn’t it time to have a second separately defined school - BRBS…?

Wonder if anyone knows about casting? Or indeed if there could be a way to audition for the dancer daughter role…?

Sounds about right for this whole mess….sigh

Just out after the excellent first night. The crowd cheered: they definitely liked the show a lot, particularly Nadine Sierra, the tenor, the chorus and (dare one suggest) Donizetti energetically conducted. The production is no worse, actually better as simpler (though the interpolated miscarriage is still realistically bloody and extended). There were murmurs from cognoscenti that Sierra was a little slow and a little shrill in places, but she is admirably full voiced, particularly in comparison to the less experienced but spot on precise Liv Redpath, who I also enjoyed a lot at the dress rehearsal. To my great sadness I never had the chance to see Joan Sutherland in the role but was able to catch the supernatural voice of Gruberova as Lucia half a dozen times in her long career. For those who don’t know, put that name into YouTube and prepare to be amazed.

This ticket is now spoken for. Kind of.

Both Labour and the Tories have repudiated the offer, for reasons I can’t begin to describe (nor would I be allowed to here) never mind understand. On the other hand, my Irish son’s colleagues going the professional route via U.K. colleges this year will have the best of both worlds, putting U.K. competitors at a disadvantage. Isn’t that nice?

Quite. I wouldn't want any additional lighting effects on the sunrise from Daphnis and Chloe, for instance, just because someone else deemed it an "appropriate" moment 😀

Shetland ponies can live to a good age but they can be little devils to control!

In my view no part of Les Illuminations is an appropriate moment for taking pictures or filming, especially when you have the pleasure of Ian Bostridge performing it.

Yes. Naughty Peregrine was there in all his glory last time BRB brought Fille down. After the performance I was walking past the stage door and there he was, with his trainer, just about to be loaded onto the horse truck. I stopped to stroke him (the pony, not the trainer!) and I asked if he enjoyed doing the shows. The trainer replied that he absolutely loves it, and loves all the attention. I do hope he is still with us (the pony....and the trainer!).

I remember seeing him being walked over the bridge. Does the Wells stage have space for him?

I wonder if Peregrine the Pony will be taking a trip up to the Wells! I’ve seen him being walked along Whitehall during the last run so maybe a bit too far for him to go!

"appropriate moments". That leaves a lot of leeway for interpretation, doesn't it? What happens when there's a difference in interpretation?

Yes, I saw it last week at sadler's wells, but life got in the way before I could post about it.