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You do know she's doing the Giselle live broadcast on April 6th, northstar? (and the repeats, whenever they may be).

Kevin O'Hare's been in charge at the RB for less than 4 years - although wouldn't it have been Monica Mason who took on Francesca Hayward - and others? Where do you get your statistics from, Tabitha? I'm not aware of dancers' heights being regularly reported anywhere.

Uh-oh. When was this, Amelia?

You get similar complaints with international orchestras - that they are losing whatever it was - strings, woodwind or so on - which made them so distinctive, and becoming homogenised. It's sad to see.

It was screened in the cinemas the other week - there may be some footage on YouTube or somewhere, maybe the Bolshoi site? (and probably some feedback on our Bolshoi Cinema thread). It's very modern, and rather short - have you seen his R&J? That would give you some idea. Having seen it once, I doubt I'll bother going again.

I don't remember noticing any change in prices for matinees from the ROH Summer booking brochure .

I remember emailing someone at ENB a few years ago about something which needed reasonably urgent attention, and not getting a reply for some considerable time. It turned out that the person in question had been away on holiday/sick or something and hadn't put any sort of out-of-office message or set up forwarding to someone else. I would of course hope that emailing protocols would have been improved since then, although it may be that the company setup means that there aren't obvious alternative people to forward emails to. And of course emails do get lost. Yes, Outlook, I'm still waiting for that code you were supposed to be sending me "immediately" an hour or so ago so I could get back into my email account ...

Centre AMPHI????!!!! Gulp.

From the ... rather unusual, shall we say ... viewing point I had, I'm not sure I'd agree with you on apportioning blame.

Welcome, Texan. So, what happens? Does she not get married, marry someone else, ...? Fonty, that Quote function has a nasty habit of disappearing, I'm afraid. I've complained about it numerous times. If it's not the Quote function, then it's the formatting which goes, or something else.

Well, from my experiences so far, I have to say this is not a cast I would avoid buying if it were on DVD

If they're passing a branch of Jigsaw, fans of Ed may like to pick up a copy of their spring/summer "Style and Truth" brochure, which includes an interview with Ed plus him modelling some of the men's range.

I thought the idea was to mark bags as biodegradable, specifically so you didn't put things away in them for years and then find they'd rotted ...

True. I'd forgotten that.

I notice that the pre-performance talk, I think it's on the 29th, is being filmed. Wonder if this is potential footage for the cinema relay?

There's Mats Ek's Giselle, where Albrecht dances nude in the second act ... I remember Tamara Rojo saying that she'd love it if the RB did the production, and I thought: "I *know* these dancers. I wouldn't necessarily mind if it were a visiting company, but am not sure I want to see that on dancers I watch regularly, thank you very much." And it's at this point that I start feeling the urge to go and look out Clement Crisp's famous quote about the problem being that certain parts carry on moving after the rest of the body has stopped ...

I suspect that most of my candidates for LEAST favourite ballet are among the hundreds I've never yet seen, or have deliberately avoided. But of the ones I *have* seen, I've put most of them out of the easily-accessible part of my memory, I guess. Although Beyond Bach has unfortunately just floated to the surface ...

Not sure that necessarily follows. Management might just be waiting to see what their options are for that date, given that Winter's Tale will be on by then. Ah, so I now have Takada twice in 5 days - I may need to do some rescheduling. Again Very disappointed not to see Morera, since I missed her last time round as well, but I can hardly say I'm surprised. After all, people were suggesting that if she was likely to be fit she'd probably be making sure she was okay for Frankenstein as top priority.

My favourite ballets include: Symphonic Variations The Dream La Fille Mal Gardée That's the Ashton done. The rest will take more thinking about ...

Right, well, I've just - rather tediously - merged 4 threads on more or less the same subject to get more of the information in the same place. All part of the service

Some additional contributions from another thread (which you can get to by clicking on the curved arrow within the quotes):

Here's the link to the seating thread I mentioned earlier: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/2715-seating-in-the-roh/

Hi, and welcome to the forum. Seating preferences vary according to the individual, of course. Grand Tier is *very* nice, but rather far away. Balcony is like GT, but higher. Stalls circle can be good as long as you don't go too far to the sides, when you start getting a restricted view. I think we have a ROH seating thread somewhere, but don't have time to look for it at present, I'm afraid.

Don't know whether we have many readers in Devon, but still ... http://www.travelzoo.com/uk/entertainment/-10-30-up-Top-Rated-Operas-in-Plymouth-Save-up-to-53--2229524/

Thanks, Ruth - glad I prodded people. Although if anyone has any cheaper offers, that would be welcome, too