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  1. Timmie
    I’m not sure which convinced me the most. Yasmine Naghdi on the radio, rail strikes suspended, 25% off my favourite seat or the discussion on this thread – but I’m now going to the ball 😄.
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    It’s more complicated… I’m a Friend, not booked yet and I’ve received the offer. Email wording is “we’re offering our Friends 25% off the best seats”.
  3. Timmie
    I'm a Friend and I got the email with the code. I haven't bought any Beauty tickets and I would think that's the criteria. I vaguely remember it being the same a few years back with La Fille Mal Gardee.
  4. Timmie
    BBC Radio Three tomorrow 18:30. They did a recording of La Traviata with Oropesa last year and she was really interesting in the interval chats so hopefully she'll do the same again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fnvq
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    I went to the Alcina matinee last Saturday and I enjoyed it a lot. There were beautiful arias from all the leads, especially Oropesa of course, with Alcina’s aria at the end of Act 2 the most fabulous, I need to find some YouTube recordings of that. And Oberto (Rafael Flutter) how beautiful a voice that was. Thanks for the info on the da capo arias, I would have wondered if the subtitle machine was broken given that it was blank for a lot of the time 😄. Looking forward to hearing it again on the radio tomorrow to see how good my hi-fi set up is against my memories of last week.
  6. Timmie
    Thanks Geoff, I'll probably get a ticket then. I do appreciate the responses I get here 🙂.
  7. Timmie
    Continuing my quest for newbie operas what’s the view on Alcina? It nearly passed me by but I’ve just spotted Lisette Oropesa is in it. I’ve decided I only really like easy stuff with lots of Soprano excitement. Does it fit in that category?
  8. Timmie
    Yes, thanks CCL, I did get a ticket. Luckily (or unluckily?) I'm the only one in my family that likes opera, so that helps with the affordability 😄.
  9. Timmie
    Thanks all. I would like to see Kaufmann, I am slightly worried that I'll have trouble getting tickets when he is cast though 🙁 (I remember the Fidelio fun and games!).
  10. Timmie
    Thanks Lizbie. I've only seen Jaho on the La Traviata ROH recording which I enjoy so much. (Note to Admin - I meant to post this question on the opera Newbie thread - any chance of a move please?)
  11. Timmie
    Any thoughts on Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci for a newbie? I’d love to see Ermonela Jaho so I’m thinking of booking this.
  12. Timmie
    Totally agree, I saw Angel Blue on the 4th April and it was a marvellous performance. Stoyanov as Germont did get a lot of applause and cheers!
  13. Timmie
    Einstein would be impressed 😄. So it’s only really a fouetté if the leg is whipped out. Which means many dancers don’t do 32 but quite a bit less, however they do many more than 32 turns. Whenever we talk about ‘32 fouettés’ I just assume we are talking about ‘a lot’ rather than exactly 32.
  14. Timmie
    I’m just looking through my old cast sheet pdfs and one I downloaded a day or so after the performance doesn’t have the cast change on it. I sort of assumed they would update the cast sheets with the actual performers – what’s the paperless equivalent of the cast change notices we used to get? And it’s not there anymore anyway so my records are incomplete 🙁. BALANCHINE AND ROBBINS FRIDAY 4 JUNE 2021 AT 7PM. Not shouting, just a lazy cut n paste 🙂.
  15. Timmie
    Fonty, I totally agree, and Anna Rose’s Aurora debut was fabulous, I was probably more nervous than her for the Rose Adagio (which was faultless). But things are what they are. Part of the excitement of a live performance I guess 🙂.
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    That’s the thing, the audience do love the fouettés, so many of the audience will be infrequent ballet goers and the fouettés are part of the excitement. My wife only attends the ballet occasionally and she was somewhat disappointed with the Friday matinee black swan pas-de-deux. She did observe that the corps de ballet were ‘really good’, I would have said outstanding, but that’s close enough 🙂.
  17. Timmie
    Vadim Muntagirov on BBC Radio Three right now. (All over, short and sweet, probably available on catch-up somewhere).
  18. Timmie
    Indeed, I was going to get one, I don't usually bother with programmes but a Swan Lake one would have been nice.
  19. Timmie
    Yep. I am going to try very hard to ignore that bit of the stage and focus elsewhere. (Of course that is Beaumont's interpretation, which seems very logical and I'm not going to argue with it. There may be other interpretations).
  20. Timmie
    That didn’t take long 🙂. In Beaumont’s book he goes on at length about the dual nature of Odette but does say (page 70) “In interpreting the role of Odette it is a cardinal point for the ballerina to remember that in all meetings with Siegfried she is in her guise as a woman.”
  21. Timmie
    I don’t think we ever see her as a swan, just a human with some swan-like characteristics (not flying though!). I got this from reading Cyril Beaumont’s book (not read for some time so I may be wrong). The Mariinsky version has swan models leaving the stage and swan maidens entering in synchronicity with the transformation implied off-stage. I’ll check the book and get back later.
  22. Timmie
    I think it is dusk to dawn in human form, though ‘enchanted’, so we always see Odette as a human.
  23. Timmie
    I was going to ask about the meaning of the ending today, but reading the comments no-one seems to really know what’s going on? That’s annoying, at the end I want to be wrapped up in the emotion, not trying to work out the logic of what’s going on 🙁.
  24. Timmie
    A reasonable response. Though I would have preferred a glass of champagne voucher instead of a free programme (in case Mr Beard is reading 😄).
  25. Timmie
    It's not going well, and I only wanted three tickets. Using two different browsers, a phone and a tablet is helping a bit 😁.
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