David

Can I add Scottish Ballet's revival of Le Baiser de la Fee to your list of the regional achievements please?

I understand that press releases are embargoed and that "the Press" , including this Forum must respect that. I suppose the wider question is why information regarding future seasons has to be embargoed so strictly, why information regarding future plans has to be managed so absolutely with organizations hugging information to their chests like Gollum with his precious. Teasing us with statements like "there will be a MacMillan piece that's quite long and hasn't been done for some time" is just power play!!! A great deal of information regarding future seasons at the Royal Opera is in the public domain - unavoidably so because singers' schedules are committed years ahead - but the World continues to spin unchecked and the annual formal announcements are still respected. Would it be so damaging if the people at the heads of our Arts organisations were prepared to be more forthcoming regarding their future plans, and if more information regarding future plans were in the public domain?

Great news-and earlier than I expected. Thank you.

Including it seems Sergei Polunin and Misty Copeland though I suspect that their contribution will be limited since all the key parts are down to be filled by actors.

Good to know. Thank you.

Matthew Bourne's The Car Man - "This recording for Sky Arts was made at Sadlers Wells during the production s most recent revival" - Zizi Strallen and Christopher Trenfield, Dominc North and Kate Lyons - Due for release on 8th Dec 2017 Mozart: The Lover’s Garden -Teatro alla Scala, April 2016 - Roberto Bolle, Nicoletta Manni, Marta Romagna, Claudio Coviello, Mick Zeni, Christian Fagetti, Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala, La Scala String Quartet and Soloists of the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Due for release on 12th Jan 2018

The Xmas Double issue of the Radio Times will run from Saturday, 23rd Dec and I'm told the official on-sale date is from Saturday, 9th December “in certain parts of the country”. I guess it might start to appear a little earlier than that in some places – it usually does! And other TV listings magazines will also be appearing so not too long to wait!

I haven't come across this link before. It's interesting - thank you. I have registered and received an email that includes "Please note that all items in this store are not commercial releases, neither the copies of commercial releases. These opera & ballet performances have never been commercially released." Their stock includes two Onegins - Stuttgart and Bolshoi. Strange that they seem able to bypass the Cranko Estate veto - one has to wonder where they've been sourced? I can't find any technical info other than that they distinguish between HD and SD stating that these are of blu-ray and standard quality respectively . The disks with postage are quite pricey - I can't find where they're despatched from and whether additionally they would be subject to import charges. I'm not going to rush into a purchase, I'm already over-spent this year, but if anyone decides to have a punt I'd be very interested to hear any comments!

Initial press releases include: BBC2 Matthew Bourne's Cinderella; BBC4 Richard Jones' new production of La Boheme at the Royal Opera BBC1 Darcey Bussell - Looking for Fred Astaire

Oh dear I hope that's not so. It will be really ironic if, having vetoed recordings of so many superb performances around the world on the grounds apparently that only the Stuttgart Ballet should be allowed to record it, the Stuttgart recording when it finally comes falls short of the bar.

My understanding has always been that the ban on recordings of Onegin emanates from the Cranko Estate. Who holds the rights to MacMillan's Song of the Earth I wonder? Is it the Cranko Estate or Stuttgart Ballet? Are they the reason why there are no commercial recordings of Song of the Earth and why Darcey Bussell's farewell performance at the ROH was never released on DVD and has not subsequently been repeated on BBC?

Useful to know - thank you. And I so agree about the NYCB in Paris disc. Wonderful! Incidentally I understand the release by Universal Classics of Woolf Works due out about now has been delayed - I don't know why or for how long!

For goodness sake shut this thread down. It's unpleasant and contributes absolutely nothing to to our discussion and understanding of ballet.

But a somewhat patronising one - the assumption that people in the movie business don't "understand something about the art of ballet". My experience is that artists in one branch of the performing arts tend to have a considerable knowledge of other branches and in fact enjoy them whenever they can. Thus one often sees dancers among the audiences at the theatre and vice versa. I guess that at the least the proportion of movie "stars" who are interested in the ballet is probably representative of the population at large.

Front Row is an Arts Programme Lite covering as Alison says 3-4 items in 30 mins - all at the same level as the one on MacMillan. I fear it would be unrealistic to expect anything more substantial. On a related note one of the Celebration days was originally tagged on the ROH web site as "filming" - leading me to hope that it was being filmed for eventual broadcast, that hopefully Jan Younghusband had commissioned it for the BBC. However the tag seems to have been removed (?) so I guess that opportunity to film at least part of the event is no longer on the cards.

Yep, light but still pleasant to watch!

Thank you Pulcinella. Spotted your post just in time to set the recorder. Off to watch it now!

Good advice - thank you Alison. All the Bolshoi showings throughout the forthcoming months at My Vue are listed as 4pm irrespective of Moscow or British time so I guess one should check each one beforehand just to be sure.

Does anyone know when we are likely to get the Coliseum castings please?

Due for release on the 11th November on both DVD and blu-ray. Here's the blurb: "Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 Roberto Bolle, Misty Copeland, Antonino Sutera, Mick Zeni, Marco Agostino, Riccardo Massimi Company & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Patrick Fournillier This classic choreography of Romeo and Juliet by Kenneth MacMillan, set to the immortal notes of Prokofiev, is legendary in La Scala´s repertoire. In this ballet the choreographer MacMillan deals with the matter paying great attention to human relations, lyricism and psychological tension, without neglecting moments of humour, through the dynamics and the emotions of ballet d’action. Set and costumes are designed especially for La Scala by Mauro Carosi and Odette Nicoletti. The stars of this masterly performance are Roberto Bolle and Misty Copeland, together for the first time in this ballet. Iconic ballerina Misty Copeland makes history as the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet." I don't know the Scala production but the casting sounds interesting!

The good news is that it has been filmed with the original cast, led by Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope!

There's a live cinema relay on 16th November.

Thank you Beryl H - I hadn't noticed that!

A truly marvellous tribute by the BBC that brought back so many memories and sent me rushing to my recordings of his many productions for stage, film, television and opera. We take genius so much for granted when it is with us; it is only when we lose it that we truly appreciate what we had!

From the Radio Times web site: "The BBC will pay tribute to Sir Peter Hall on BBC4 and BBC2 with a special documentary celebrating the life of the celebrated director. The schedules have been amended to make way for a special documentary called Sir Peter Hall Remembered, looking back at the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company founder and National Theatre director, who has passed away aged 86. The hour-long episode will feature tributes from theatre greats including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Trevor Nunn and many others. The documentary will be broadcast on BBC4 on Tuesday 12th September at 9pm."