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  1. alison
    Why does all the good stuff go on Sky?
  2. alison
    Yes, welcome. If you want to discuss Other Things, opera included, we have a "Not Dance" forum for that very purpose. And there are quite a few forum members who go to the opera as well as the ballet, to my knowledge.
  3. alison
    I'm sure he can take it.
  4. alison
    Yes, do, please. Hmm, white against white. I wonder how that will work out.
  5. alison
    Ah yes, I'd forgotten that - I was thinking that the first cast had about 2/3 of the performances, and forgetting that Muntagirov had been moved over. Oh well, I guess we'll see what happens.
  6. alison
    I think she mentioned something about it in an interview - Ballet Association, maybe?
  7. alison
    Very good and perspicacious (I think I've spelt that right), Sim - please send her my congratulations. My only cavils really would be that there are several dancers' surnames misspelt, and perhaps, depending on what her target audience is (newbies or committed balletomanes?) she could be a little less free with the first names until she's made it clear who the dancers are. For example, there's a reference to Johan and Alina, and a newbie would probably need surnames to put them into context, no matter how famous they are!
  8. alison
    I did, Nina, and I don't . While the individual performances were very good, I didn't feel they'd as yet "gelled" totally, and the "magic" I've felt with certain other casts wasn't there - as yet. I believe they've got the lion's share of performances for the rest of the run, though, so I certainly expect (considerable?) improvements in both those areas.
  9. alison
    I do hope we don't have any over-83s on here who are feeling left out
  10. alison
    Thanks for that, Coated
  11. alison
    You've got a point there, a frog - thank you. I hadn't registered that the insight was only on the two new(ish) works. OTOH, it could be something completely different - it occasionally is.
  12. alison
    Can someone tell me where we've got to with RB insights and in-rehearsals, please? I made the Manon and Cassandra insights, and believe there's since been an Ashton one of some description, but is that as far as we've got yet? Just trying to work out what might be covered in Thursday's rehearsal ...
  13. alison
    One minute past? I was still refreshing then, and still getting Sold Out! Perhaps it varies from computer to computer?! For me, it must have been nearly 5 minutes before anything came online.
  14. alison
    Is the day tickets thing an ACE obligation? I always assumed it was recognition by the ROH that because of their habits of putting things on sale 6 months or more in advance, and tickets tending to sell out, they needed to make some provision for people unable to commit that far in advance. Sadler's Wells used to do day seats, but I think that was before the new theatre opened.
  15. alison
    They haven't: see the Friends' booking restrictions thread.
  16. alison
    So, Badenes gets both Tatiana and Olga. Hope she doesn't do what Cojocaru did and get confused as to who she was supposed to be during the duel scene.
  17. alison
    I considered doing so, but was put off by the obscenely high prices. I mean, £18 for a stalls circle standing?! I'm not sure we can draw conclusions from that, Coated. These restrictions on specific productions which are expected to have very high demand are, I think, different from normal Friends' restrictions.
  18. alison
    Surely that's un- or under-informed rather than ill-informed? And, apparently, provided your comments are sufficiently PC (cynic? me??!!)
  19. alison
    I thought someone had started a thread for this during Friends' booking but can't see one, so here we go: Well, despite Terfel, Callega, Stemme, Kaufmann and more on the opera side, this seemed to go pretty well this morning. Not that there was much in the way of seats available, so I've only bought a grand total of 3 Swan Lakes and 3 Onegins, and may top up later if possible. Standing tickets were available - I got a good one, surprisingly, for an Osipova Onegin - but only in the Balcony, and that was the only one I managed to lay my hands on. Very little in the way of cheap side amphi seats. Nunez' Onegins selling pretty well, at least among the (presumably) more impecunious members of the audience. I was camping on the Onegin insight page before booking opened, and kept refreshing it, but it went instantly from Not on Sale to Sold Out! Then, less than 10 minutes after that, there were seats available, so I grabbed one while the going was good. Anyone else?
  20. alison
    Either Yasmine has got high heels on or she's a fair bit taller than I took her for.
  21. alison
    I don't know, but whatever has been done hair-wise didn't help in my appreciation of the performance So were Morera and Hatley: I don't think I've ever seen two people dance quite so well together in those roles.
  22. alison
    Ooh, thank you Bruce - I hadn't actually bothered looking at the press release yet. What a lovely birthday present - it'll almost make up for all those years I've had to suffer the Nutcracker
  23. alison
    But the Siberian Swan Lake (I think it was) is less than wonderful - and slightly odd. Capybara, personally I'm less concerned about the designs of the RB's production (although I don't like most of them) than I am about some of the stage behaviour: drunkenness (virtually to the point of throwing up, depending on the dancer), princes thwacking guests on the backsides with swords, that sort of thing - all totally inappropriate to a Classical ballet, however fitting they might be for Manon or Mayerling (and that's dubious!)
  24. alison
    I'd just like it if they all (Bolshoi included) let us know when the "unmissable" interval bits are: many's the time I've nipped out to the loo, or for a bite to eat (Picturehouses being quite civilised like that), or an ice cream, only to come back and find I've missed something of interest. So in the next interval I stay put, and get, say, 20 minutes of the Bolshoi foyer or something
  25. alison
    Financial reasons? I have a feeling that was the reason given last time.
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