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  1. alison
    Kudos to the whole company tonight for having to perform under some extremely difficult conditions. What professionals! And best wishes to Ryo Hirano for a full recovery.
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    I think that's not infrequently the case, from what I see elsewhere. "Salary commensurate with age and experience" is something I not infrequently see.
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    Glad to hear it, for Sophoife's sake.
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    Me too, pretty much. And that reminds me - with all the complaints about the absence of New York City Ballet from these shores, it must be even longer now since the Paul Taylor company has been here. They used to come here what felt like every couple of years or so - I wonder what changed?
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    I suppose it depends on what you mean by "contemporary ballet" - some of those places suggested sound more like contemporary dance to me. Welcome to the forum, BTW, davy jones.
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    My reaction on the first night was: have they replaced Vadim without announcing it? Who was second cast?!
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    I tried it once, for Don Quixote back in the Stretton era. Never again! I had to leave after 5 to 10 minutes ☹️
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    Interesting you should say that: at the Royal Opera broadcast of Madama Butterfly last month, there was a whole piece on how the stage lighting at the ROH is being changed - I can't off-hand remember whether the change to LEDs was mentioned there or elsewhere, though. It may well be online on YouTube somewhere now, I suppose.
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    Oh, they certainly were, although my local-est Odeon seems to have given up doing Encore showings. Possibly it will deign to do one for something as popular as Swan Lake, though.
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    That's a point. I have a friend who almost drools at the very mention of Petroc - perhaps I should try to persuade her to come along to these cinema relays. Might even make a convert!
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    Clapham and East Dulwich Picturehouses Monday daytime, for a start ... It's so difficult to tell from the horrible new webpage, though.
  12. alison
    Ah, in that case I think we got a rather worse version than you? I'd say 2 x about 1 minute, or at least long enough for me to put up with it, then start considering whether I should get up and go and find someone to report it. And then it stopped, so I didn't.
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    I'm really sorry to hear that, Lynette. Can you make an Encore performance (down my way, perhaps?). They aren't normally all on the following Sunday. Sometimes they can be: at others they most certainly aren't. I've had some really poor experiences from them (and when I saw Swan Lake from one the other day it was rather worse than I would have expected) as well as some good ones. It's just so hit and miss where the seats are in relation to the people in front of you.
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    Which version of Acosta's Don Q? I think BRB's is generally better. Haven't seen the Nureyev since the RB did it in 2001, so it's difficult to comment.
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    Yes, I arrived late, and also got back late after the first interval, so missed some of the talking, but thought some more explanation could have been given about the plot - such as it is - of Different Drummer, just to put it into context. After all, you can't really expect your audience to have read the play - or even seen the opera - especially in this day and age. Did I miss something? Or does the company seem to be as reluctant to talk about it as it does in its printed programmes?
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    Good luck, Sophoife. Of course, different company, different venue, different country - it might be different.
  17. alison
    I can There have of course been dancers guesting from other companies apart from the RB.
  18. alison
    That's been my impression during this run, too, to judge by the vocal voices at the end of the work.
  19. alison
    According to the credits at the end, yes. I was quite surprised to find that Matthew Ball was allegedly dancing in Requiem (even Darcey Bussell seemed to think so) and James Hay in Different Drummer - neither turned out to be the case. I thought Danses Concertantes very well filmed - just a shame about the audio in a couple of places, which I hope was merely a broadcast problem rather than a recording one (from what Petroc Trelawney said, it sounds as though it was a nationwide issue). I'm afraid that, unlike Linnzi, it was a big deal for me: sounded like a saw being drawn across rusty wires for a couple of minutes . I hope it was less bad in other cinemas. Very much appreciated the opportunity to see Different Drummer at close quarters, and being able to read Sambé and Hayward rather better than from the front amphitheatre. From there, I had also liked Ball more than Bracewell in Requiem, but again, having seen him in close-up I can see just why people were so enthusiastic about Bracewell in this - the camera seemed almost to be lingering on him, to great effect. Gorgeous. Experienced cinema-broadcast goers probably won't be surprised to hear that Requiem as a whole was rather more crepuscular than usual, but I didn't feel that detracted from it at all. I can understand why the ROH decided to restrict the broadcast to UK only for this one: my cinema was noticeably the least full I've seen it for RB broadcasts for some considerable time. I'm still wondering about the cast selection for Danses Concertantes, though: is Muntagirov absent this week, or something? It did seem rather odd to pick the noticeably more junior case for the cinema relay. And I missed Joseph Sissens in sludgey green: I really liked him in this.
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    I can't speak for ENB, but in the case of the RB I thought it was more that First Soloists might be asked to do corps work, but it would generally only be something of a last resort, in an emergency. I don't think you'd expect to see them doing it night after night.
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    Cinema cast sheet seemingly a bit of a work of fiction tonight ☹️
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    But why would you offer multibuy discounts if you're only bringing one production? Most of their target audience won't be interested in going to see it more than once, I should think.
  23. alison
    But he appears to be doing very nicely where he is, anyway
  24. alison
    Keeping you busy today, Jan!
  25. alison
    What a shame, although I had been expecting it. Never mind, I'm sure Lamb will be great - and we assume there's one recording of that cast safely in the bag anyway.
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