Rachelm

For Sale:  Weds18th March Royal Opera House. The Royal Ballet:

One ticket for Ballet Studio Live CLASS at 10.30am

FRONT ROW  Stage Level A42 £15.00 (face value).

One ticket for Ballet Studio Live REHEARSAL at 12.15pm

FRONT ROW Stage Level A17 £15.00 (face value)

I'm no longer able to attend and hope somebody will be able to make use of these great seats. I will send tickets out quickly and via first class post which is 70p. Payment via Paypal.

SOLD

For Sale:

One ticket for Ballet Studio Live- the Royal Ballet class at the Royal Opera House- Paul Hamlyn Hall.

18th March 2020 10.30am

Seat B19 Stage level.

£15 face value.

Please note- tickets are still available for this event, but I think they are for seats further back. This is on the second row I believe. 

Ticket by post.

Repeat of RB in Anastasia is on tomorrow too, at 6am!!! (Sky Arts)

https://www.sky.com/watch/title/programme/7154c17a-df00-4e6c-ab37-3b6ac15a95dd

On 19/12/2019 at 20:13, Drosselmeyer said:

Hello all...

 

I'm new round these parts, so be gentle!

 

Has anyone on here bought the new Nutcracker Blu-ray release by Opus Arte? I've noticed on Amazon there's a couple of negative reviews mentioning that the video recording is sub-standard with possible problems with the authoring of the disc?

Yes I have and I have left a review on Amazon. My disc was perfect and I had no issues. Beautiful all round.

On 29/11/2019 at 17:34, Beryl H said:

The RB Benjamin/Acosta DVD is the same production, I like it very much, Leanne Benjamin took over at short notice, there is also an excellent performance of the Prayer solo, one of my favourites, by Zenaida Yanovsky. 

I don't suppose you can remember who Leanne Benjamin replaced? It was nagging at me the other day as I couldn't remember. I'm wondering if it was Miyako Yoshida?

I sat on the back row of the circle for Les Miserables at the Hippodrome. It was fine sight-wise, but I would definitely want to be further forward if I went again, it just felt a long way away!

Prince of the Pagodas or Winter Dreams

2 has been on before as well.

I hope she brings out a book!

MacMillan's Anastasia by The Royal Ballet on Sky Arts today at 1pm!! 

On 24/01/2019 at 20:49, Don Q Fan said:

The Stuttgart Onegin is available online until 28 January as it was shown on German ARTE at Christmas in case anyone wants to see it.

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/080523-000-A/onegin/

That's brilliant- thank you!

3 hours ago, Richard LH said:

I notice that in SIC a young Artist, Isabel Lubach, stepped into a role otherwise danced by First Soloists.  Good for her !

Do you know if she was originally cast, or filling in as a replacement?

17 hours ago, aliceinwoolfland said:

Oh no, that's awful! I totally sympathise as a fellow dog owner...

Awww thanks! Needless to say, the other shoe stays well out of the dog's way. I never thought in a million years that she'd go for it!

On 28/10/2018 at 15:07, Bravissima35 said:

I'm guessing if you are selling the used point shoes for a good cause then there is no harm.  I know Olivia Grace Cowley did this last year with a certain amount of point shoes to raise money for Alzheimer Support, a cause close to her. I donated an amount and got a pair signed by her, my sister got Yuhi Choe and mum got Fumi Kaneko.  It was all random in that you didn't know which dancers point shoe you would get.  It was all done openly on Twitter and Instagram so the RB must have no problem with it.  

I bought one of Olivia Cowley's pairs for Alzheimer's last year- Mayara Magri's. I was so thrilled to get them! A month later my fiance and I returned home to find a mush on the floor. I couldn't tell what it was at first. Then I saw a pointe shoe ribbon amongst the wet mush- my dog had completely chewed up one of the shoes! I cried!!!!!! Luckily I still have one.

5 hours ago, Fiz said:

I’ve given up trying to watch. It’s very disappointing. 

I gave up too. I'd been looking forward to that for a long time. 

Argh! They're filming from the back of the class again! They did this last year. 

11 hours ago, alison said:

And think of all those people watching online and thinking "Grrr, there are spare seats available".  

I was one of those people!!!

I certainly feel more compassion for Polunin after watching this, I previously thought him foolish and slightly deluded for leaving the RB.

He has inner turmoils that I believe other great artists have suffered- Tchaikovsky, Van Gogh, and various contemporary musicians come to mind. As a child I imagine he must have felt completely abandoned, and that is a great trauma for any youngster. Maybe not everybody would react in the same way to such trauma, but his seeming resentment of his talent makes sense, in that it has taken him away from his family, even if he does love it. To love and hate something at the same time, I think, would create much conflict within his personality.

The motivation and discipline that one commentator in the film thought he now lacked and hated, brought to mind Steven McRae, who seems conversely to thrive on discipline. I think they're an interesting contrast in that sense, even if they seem to have the same passion and perhaps vanity (?).

Some may see the film as a expression of "poor me", which in a sense I think it is, but it certainly does enlighten us as to his decision to leave the Royal Ballet and give us the opportunity to understand and have some form of compassion towards him.

I loved "Take Me To Church". I think he should do more work like that, where he can express himself and be free. I guess there are more ways than one of being a thriving professional ballet dancer! He's doing things his own way, in a way that works for him, and I respect that now.

I'm not sure if you would include these in "significant" Alison: Big Swan in Swan Lake, Rose Fairy in The Nutcracker.

On 13/07/2018 at 23:45, Lizbie1 said:

Thought so, but no-one had actually said it!

I had no idea, so I'm glad you said. I was wondering!

So happy for Mayara Magri, Tierney Heap, and Fumi Kaneno!! Well, all of them really! I would have been surprised if Matthew Ball had not been promoted to principal!

I was also pleased to see that Nadia Mullova- Barley, the student from the BBC "Dancing the Nutcracker" documentary, has now joined the company following her apprenticeship. I find it so enjoyable to follow their career progression.

25 minutes ago, RuthE said:

 

 

I rather love Juliet’s balcony-scene slip. But suffice to say that as a busty 39-year-old the thought of actually wearing it is hilarious.

Same!! Except I'm 38!

Great question! I love ballet costumes so much! 

All of my favourites are from The Royal Ballet: definitely the Sugar Plum Fairy's tutu, Titania's dress from The Dream, Gamzatti's red costume from the end of La Bayadere, the lead female's costume in Prince of the Pagodas in the earlier acts- that's divine! Most of the dresses in Mayerling (except Mitzi's).