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    I think it was Spring 2015 so yes ages!!
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    I’d forgotten this! However there is an article dated March 2023 which says they are considering doing a U turn regarding BBC 4 as it is comparative low cost and has undoubted popularity with the public……But can’t see any news after that date.
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    I love Onegin too and hope it’s on the cards for 2024-5 for the Royal. Id love to go to Munich too as it’s years since I’ve been there and it’s a lovely city ( I used to go to Germany a lot as I studied the language) but haven’t been to the theatre there yet and the Company today has so many really good dancers! Thanks for reviews and piccies Don Q
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    Why is BBC 4 under threat currently then?
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    An aside…a picture of Nureyev arriving at the film Premiere of Valentino just dropped into my Facebook page. He’s wearing a very large and voluptuous cloak which looks suspiciously like the ever expanding one he wore in Giselle lol!!
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    Hee hee Balletyas substitute walking home in the summer by choice humming the tunes with a few odd ballet steps thrown in for cycling home!! Those were the carefree days!
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    Yes another option. It’s only in very recent years I’ve been lucky enough not to have to try to get back to Brighton after performances otherwise given the way the trains have been in the last 5 years or so with so many later night cancellations ….standing on a Victoria platform at 10.30 pm and seeing the train just cancelled in the middle of the winter is not for the 70 plus!!! …or worse being turfed off the train at East Croydon or Three Bridges ( where drivers change over) because there’s nobody to take the train further!! …..I’d rarely go to the ROH if couldn’t stay for free in London. Saturday matinees are often no good because of engineering works especially between October and April Id really love a regular weekday matinee, a few more 7pm starts or shorter intervals …all three would be great. Though I do feel I’m probably showing my age here as when younger never even occurred to me to worry about end times though did live in London then. I retired in 2012 and think have slowly got more bothered by being out much after 11.30 whether in London or Brighton for whatever reason.
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    I was at their last performance of this at the ROH. What a night!! The audience just wouldn’t let them go! Id had a great view from standing that night. I couldn’t see Marguerite and Armand for years after that as it felt so much “their” ballet.
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    I don’t believe Travis Clausen Knight is with the Royal Ballet ( listed next to Corrales) so definitely some sort of semi colon needed there! I hope to get to this but can’t book until I know what the trains are doing that w/end with either engineering works …probably 80 per cent chance or Strikes 20 -30 percent chance!!
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    Loved your review Bruce Wall except for your hint of a suggestion that McCormick might dance elsewhere 😱. Please no …not just yet!
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    Dawnstar…Thankyou so much for your advice but I too think £118 is a lot to pay if any kind of restrictive view so think will give those two Bench seats a miss and trust will get a return nearer the time. I have seen both these two before in Swan Lake or otherwise might have been tempted to go at any price 😳 however think good sense can prevail here but just wanted to support Cesar on his return to the stage!! Before Covid I used to say absolutely not over £100 for a theatre seat but found I’ve been pushed to the £120 mark more recently …just on occasions ..but always seats with a very good view. Tickets in the £150-175 mark it’s just a no from me 😱 but if you were only to attend the ROH once or twice a year I suppose could be considered reasonable for the great view they would afford.
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    Thanks for heads up re tickets but can’t pay over £150 even for Cesar! I can’t sit in Amphi or the loose chairs on the side in level B and C in Balcony (Row A is okay as have a barrier in front of you) but these not available and anyway too expensive for Swan Lake!! There is a seat in stalls circle .. a bench seat B.27. Still a bit pricey but have never sat on a bench seat before. Has anyone sat in B.27 is view okay from there?
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    Agree!
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    I sat in Palladium only the once for Emerging Dancer a few years back and am having to really think hard where I was sitting but think it was towards the back of the stalls. I didn’t have any problem seeing the stage anyway but I’m tallish and maybe that makes a difference.
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    Yes Cesar confirmed for me in that particular performance that he was truly a dancer to be reckoned with!! I was so relieved when he joined the RB and didn’t go off abroad somewhere. I did really search for reviews of him and Zhang and couldn’t find any although one reviewer who had written up about Vasiliev and Rojo did say get tickets for the Corrales performance if you can too!! Such a shame Cesar has been so injury bound in following years. I still feel we also lost a wonderful dancer in letting Shale Wagman go too who is of course now doing so well in Munich
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    I thought access meant people either in wheelchairs or who have mobility type issues so seats need to be easy to get to. I can only go by what I’ve been told but these days in big organisations people only seem to know the bit of information they need to do their own job! The other day I was in a large well known Garden Centre which has outlets selling other things. I tried at least four outlets to ask where the Garden furniture was ( as couldn’t see a Garden Centre employee) and none of them knew where it might be located! So they go to work there every day and just go to “their bit” eyes closed everywhere else it seems!!
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    Yes lengthy discussion there about this and I rang up yesterday ….re the same performance! Apparently when tickets showing as available aren’t showing on the seat map they are probably “access” tickets and you have to be registered for this scheme to “see” the tickets. Seems a bit clumsy to me but that’s what I was told by Box Office. There’s no guarantee though that the Box Office staff helpful as they are know all the ins and outs of the ROH computer system!
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    I’m guessing those 31 tickets must be access tickets so when a performance shows sold out that means all the access tickets are sold too ….when it shows a number of tickets available but you can’t see them they are unsold access tickets and you can’t see them because you are not registered with that scheme! That’s the best way I can make sense of it. I think it was a mistake that I was told they were part of the Friday Rush tickets.
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    Most of the Reviews back then were for the performances of Vasiliev and Rojo and that cast for Jeune and Sylphide rather than for Cesars nights casting.
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    Dawnstar I don’t know whether you inspired ENB with one of your piccies (page 7 of this thread) but on their Facebook page there are a lot of “blurry” piccies …deliberately of course ….to show the spirity look of the Wilis!
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    My email this morning was from London City Ballet. I can’t remember when signed up for emails but a couple of months ago so probably in November…my welcome letter was on 24th November but only today had any further news from them
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    Well RPG sounds a bit too futuristic for me lol though we must be round about the same age!!!. I’ve only really been in anyway Internet /computer savvy since about 2008 and am still at a fairly elementary level ….in ballet terms!!!
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    I also registered a complaint ( nicely) which I was told would be passed on about one of cesar’s performances being closed off to general booking for an invited audience when he has been away from the stage for so long and looks to only have two performances altogether. Feels like somebody not getting the over view there.
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    I’m just trying to explain why I only heard this morning (via email) but others like yourself seemed to have heard about it before now!
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    Yes I forgot to say that the young lady said they hadn’t yet found out a way of removing them!!!
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