MrsBBB

I’m thrilled that Mariko gets to dance Odette in this gala. She was top of my wish list for the role after seeing her wonderful performances as one of the Big Swans this season. Looking forward to @Naomi M‘s report. 
(I would also not be surprised if Mariko got the double promotion rather than Letitia D)

As I’m now going to Wimbledon instead, I have a spare ticket for the ROH Otello general rehearsal: Amphitheater front row centre A57, face value £30. Cast details are here 

5 hours ago, zxDaveM said:

 

the half hour intervals seem a bit excessive - especially the 2nd one!

Drinking time for the first night sponsors 😉🥂

2 minutes ago, bangorballetboy said:

I understand that Zelensky is stepping down for personal reasons.

On 02/12/2021 at 17:54, alison said:

I thought Polunin had had the Putin tattoo removed?

In a recent Sunday Times Magazine feature he said that he intends to have it removed, as well as all his other tattoos. 

11 hours ago, LinMM said:

Well he could have Tourette’s Syndrome where people feel compelled to shout out certain words or phrases ....very often swear words ...but his word is Bravo! 

I’m praying to the theatrical gods that he’s not there tonight to ruin the celebration of Morera’s 25th anniversary at the RB. 

Thank you @alison for sharing these. Bizarre times for the most part, so recording is the way to go.

On 05/09/2020 at 23:18, Mandy Kent said:

Then came Prince Florimund’s Variation from Sleeping Beauty danced very well by Calvin Richardson.

Thanks for the lovely review @Mandy Kent! Was this the Act 2 (Ashton) or the Act 3 (wedding) solo? I would love to see Calvin in a proper classical lead role. I hope he won’t get pigeon holed in contemporary rep and McGregor.

Thanks @alison. The Met documentary is well worth watching, I saw it when the Met streamed it on their website a few months ago. 

Some of the programmes for the live concerts have now been announced: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rxxnc8/by/date/2020

The non London based orchestras will perform in their home locations, not from the RAH.
 

I'm looking forward to Viennese Night on Bank Holiday Monday 🙂.

On 10/06/2020 at 23:21, ninamargaret said:

Caught up with this today. Good to see an audience, even a small, socially distant one, enjoying music.  

Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich started having a very small audience of 50 in the house this Monday at their live streamed weekly Monday concert (available to view free on demand here: https://www.staatsoper.de/tv.html ). There are two more concerts this season, on 22 and 29 June. They usually include a brief segment of ballet solos or pdd to recorded music as well as chamber music performed by members of the orchestra and vocal performances by opera singers.

The Vienna State Opera have launched a live concert series tonight with a small audience in the house and live streaming on the web. Dates and performers are listed at the Bottom of this page (not yet available in English): https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/die-staatsoper/aktuelles/detail/

The live stream page is here. They are continuing to show an opera each day (sometimes ballet): https://www.staatsoperlive.com/calendar

2 hours ago, toursenlair said:

 

I have a feeling this may not happen with today's latest restrictions on groups of more than 2 people in Germany.

Just the pianist and singer, then. Maybe the Pdd can be performed to recorded music.

There is a live concert from the Bavarian State Opera tomorrow 23 March at 7.15pm (UK time) which includes excerpts from Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias and Cranko’s Taming of the Shrew performed by Principals of the Bavarian State Ballet Prisca Zeisel, Dmitrii Vyskubenko, Laurretta Summerscales and Yonah Acosta. The performance will be available to watch on demand later. Looks like the ballet section will be at the end.

https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/staatsopertv-2nd-monday-concert.html
 

Tamara’s class is available on ENB’s YT channel: 

Tamara Rojo will teach ballet class on ENO Facebook tomorrow:

The Bavarian State Opera will be streaming Jewels with the Bavarian State Ballet on Saturday 21st March, available for 28 hours: 

https://www.staatsoper.de/en/news/online-schedule-until-19-april.html
 

Bennet Gartside of The Royal Ballet will stream a live ballet class for Everybody Ballet on Instagram tomorrow evening (19th March):

Thank you @capybara and @bridiem.

Is there any info on how the ROH credits can be used? E.g. how long are they valid for, can they be redeemed online etc.? I’d be happy with credits as I don’t want to cause them a cashflow crisis, but not if there are very restrictive conditions.

6 hours ago, Geoff said:

To put it simply, I and my guests were not able to enjoy DAAG properly as the pianist’s mistakes kept getting in the way.

 

Ditto. I had to put Nelson Freire on afterwards to get that terrible performance out of my head. The solo piano playing at RB performances has been rather poor ever since Philip Gammon retired. It’s a real pity when the company is on such strong form to have their artistry marred (for those who care about / notice the music) by poor pianism. 

6 hours ago, Springbourne3 said:

- I’ve not really been a great fan of Francesca Hayward, but she was the ‘stand out’ dancer in this ballet, outshining everyone else with her grace and ease of movement.  I also thought of the men, William Bracewell was outstanding.

I was at ROH last night and completely agree with @Springbourne3, Hayward and Bracewell were simply magical in DaaG. I hope to see much more of this partnership, in particular R&J and Giselle 😍

In light of the Dante full length this season and the Atwood adaptation in 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/feb/14/margaret-atwood-ballet-maddaddam-to-be-staged-by-wayne-mcgregor I’m rather hoping we’ll be spared a full length McGregor in 2020/21. 

1 hour ago, JNC said:

Has Rojo done any choreography before?

 

Yes, she created a short piece called Into the Woods in the 2012 run of RB Draft Works. This was modern, no pointe shoes or tutu. I remember it well, it was rather disturbing. 
 

Review and a photo are here: https://dancetabs.com/2012/01/royal-ballet-draft-works-london/

I’m taking earplugs. The McGregor piece with “It’s gonna rain” was already unbearably loud.

From the January ROH Friends newsletter:

“Designs for The Dante Project include film projection by artist Tacita Dean. As part of the design, the projection generates sound, an integral part of the ballet’s concept and audio experience. Some balcony tickets - from which the projector will be heard - are now available to book at a discount.”