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Goodness I don’t think they look anything alike!!

Except I hope that doesn’t mean they are replaced on 27th when I particularly booked to see them!!

Could LBC clarify tomorrow’s programme! A friend has now said it finishes at 15.45! But I’ve not received an email about this Many thanks Linda X

Very Good news but could have done with a few more days!!!

For me I don’t think it’s so much his choreography as the music he chooses. I would love him to choose a different composer to Joby Talbot whose music I find very bland not unpleasant but just unmemorable! It probably just about works for Alice but for me not for The Winters Tale which needs a bit more bite and not that appropriate for Like Water Like Chocolate in my view.

I’m not sure but think your “Well?” Lizbie 1 might be aimed at my post re the students. There is nothing special about mentioning the students other than it’s nice to see students from the last two years or so (from visits to RBS etc) suddenly on stage with the main Company especially dancing as a swan in Swan Lake…..a rather nice culmination of all their ballet studies. I don’t know whether it’s an indication of future Company membership or just several get the chance to do this. Looking forward to seeing Fumi and Vadim on Thursday!

I’m an aisle person too….ever since I had my one and only terrible coughing fit when at Sadlers Wells sat right in the middle of one of their long rows!! Ever since I like to be at the very end of an aisle even if not quite so central etc.

Did they think that somehow the empty seats were actually better than your seat? So didn’t understand why you weren’t keen to move. Otherwise they had no good reason to ask you to move to a worse seat if even only a slightly worse seat!!

I think she’s the one at the back on extreme right hand side!

Yes she’s the one I recognise …who went to Paris recently with some other RBS students but thought the other two girls might be as well!!

Am not sure but think I can see a couple of RBS graduating students as swans in the pics

Poor Wendy!!! I know breaking just one wrist can be challenging in ones every day activities but two wrists must have been a nightmare😳😱

Am really looking forward to any reviews of this. As I think tonight’s cast is the same as one on 15th when I’m going.

Thankyou for such a detailed tribute to Capybara Li tai po. I had no idea of the true extent of her involvement in the Ballet World. She will indeed be sadly missed by so many who knew her personally as well as those of us here who did not.

It’s a lot of money to be a Friends plus so one has to weigh up what one is getting for this extra payment. One of the benefits is supposed to be advanced booking (before the general public etc) but sometimes this is not much value if you can’t really book for (lack of ) casting reasons.

Very nice piccies BBB I recognise those pink trousers …I have the very same ones!

Perhaps there are just too many tiers of Friends these days to be able to guarantee casting by the time the first lot of (higher) tiered Friends booking day opens as it’s often a full month or more before ordinary Friends booking opens (and public booking is often a full month after that!!) Perhaps the casting ( as the dancers will have been rehearsing for some time) should be announced as “projected casting” as Friends booking opens if the RB feels it needs to protect itself rather than no info at all.

Yes I too found I wanted to see what her posts would say about issues so would look out for her name as you sensed her passion for ballet ran very deep and was central to her life. It is strange this Forum there are many like Capybara that you have never met but still feel some sort of affinity with after many years of sharing posts etc. So do genuinely feel a loss when their presence is no longer there.

It will definitely be very strange not to see her name on the Forum any more as she was such a frequent contributor. When I first joined the Forum I thought her user name was unusual and somebody told me that it was the name of an animal native to Australia so I looked it up to see what it looked like! So learned something new. For this reason I always imagined she came from Australia or New Zealand.

Oh dear have just read this news on the train up to London and was only thinking yesterday that hadn’t heard anything from her about the new ballet season! So very sad to hear she has died as always enjoyed her posts and it was obvious she was very knowledgeable I think we both happened to share a love of Cesar Corrales from back in ENB days and will think of her on the 15th when also going to see him in Winters Tale. I didn’t know we also shared a first name!! Such sad news.

Can I make a plea for people to stop choosing Forum names that are tricky to type in …so have to keep checking all the time if have the right symbol especially where numbers and letters look so similar 😬 Final gripe of the day!

Hee hee I think you’ve more than made your point Hephaistion03!! But thanks that does clarify it 🙂

Alice is one of those ballets you probably will only want to see once in a run!! So I will have to choose a newby in role for my one visit! Going to be difficult to beat Beatrix Stix Brunell as Alice and Laura Morera as the Red Queen though. Same for Cinderella will probably only want to see a new person in the role this time around. It’s not that I don’t like it but all the main excitement was in the last run and it’s just not that long ago to jump up and down about….like I did when saw Cesar was doing Leontes in Winters Tale! ( only 2 weeks to go!) Im pretty sure it will be a while before I see R&J bettered by Hayward and Corrales or Naghdi and Ball both pairs wonderful. I’ve not seen Bracewell as Romeo so that will probably decide my main choice or if there was a gamble on Pantuso as Juliet. Yes I know lots of Principals etc etc but Juliet is a young persons role for me and only rarely like to see much older dancers in the role! Goodness I am feeling gripy today 🙁

Thanks for posting Hephaistion03! Not sure I understand the list of shorter ballets as there are already five listed plus “four contemporary ballets” so that would be nine shorter ballets! In one evening? Or are these to be split into different days 🤔 To be honest I’m not even overly looking forward to Cinderella as it’s almost too soon to get involved with it all again! So many other things could have been offered and far too much Alice!! Onegin is the only ballet that really excites me next season as unless some new (and hopefully risky) debuts in R &J I know I won’t be as excited as when Hayward and Naghdi etc danced their debuts. It just feels like the season is a bit “tired” but maybe it’s just me …I hope I’m not beginning to tire of going to the Ballet after all these years!!!

Well to me magenta is magenta and purple is purple …not lilac!! Some lilacs might be a slightly more pinky shade of mauve and some more of a bluey shade of mauve but stretching it to magenta or purple is a step too far!! I am talking about the colour lilac though not the flowers which come in all shades.