Sophoife

You bet @Dawnstar! TDU is on 7 terrestrial, tennis on 9 terrestrial. TDU also on 7's streaming platform 7+, tennis every court on Stan (owned by 9) and 9Now. TV, phone, tablet, computer...

Also, my predictions have been shot apart somewhat...I will now go Sabalenka in the women, and...Sinner or Rublev for the men.

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@Kanangra he was a fabulous Puck, I wish I'd been able to see.his Oberon but scheduling didn't work out! 

He and Jill Ogai debuted Swan Lake in Adelaide: Jill's home town. She told me Mr Hallberg had specifically cast them for Adelaide first, not Melbourne.

26 minutes ago, alison said:

We discussed the "boy" in the thread for the previous run, I'm sure.

24 minutes ago, Sim said:

Yes, and I have found that current discussion is also in the 'Ballet Wish List 2024' thread.

Oh well, the screenshots/quotes I posted can be moved there, if you think it better - I don't mind, I was just sharing some info to which I had access. Still wishing I had my Different Drummer !

The character is a female sex worker who offers rear entry (I can't think of a more polite way to put it!). Historically speaking, this type of sex worker was expensive but popular, as it was believed that this method removed any possibility of sexually transmitted infections, and of course from the worker's POV there was far less likelihood of pregnancy. There were also clients who believed that using a virgin would cure syphilis 😳. For this and more historical info, do feel free to PM.

I found the TLS piece. 'Still dying after all these years', Alastair Macaulay, p.18, issue 5231, 4 July 2003.

It's a discussion of MacMillan and his ballets in general, as that season included five of his ballets: Manon, Mayerling, Winter Dreams, Prince of the Pagodas, and Song of the Earth.

The very last paragraph reads as follows:

51 minutes ago, Sim said:

I have asked someone who would know and they told me that indeed this character is to cater for those clients who have certain proclivities but it's more acceptable if it's actually a girl....  Although MacMillan never (as far as we know) specified this, it is the interpretation that most of those involved have come to accept over the years.  It fits in to the rest of the narrative and what is going on in that Act.  

Zoē Anderson's The Royal Ballet: 75 Years has this to say (HTH)...

I will see if I can snapshot the relevant bit from the TLS

1 hour ago, Jan McNulty said:

I probably (but nit-pickers like @Sophoife and @Sim can correct me) would have used semi-colons. 

A badge I wear with pride, Jan 🤣

I would probably have done the same as regards semi-colons.

#NitPickersNotSoAnonymous 😉

I just meant that if you posted the plea in the original thread, you might get the right person popping up 😉

Annette, here's your thread. Best to post the mea culpa in there 🤭 (it wasn't deleted, just pushed down off the front page of Doing Dance as other threads had more recent posts).

https://www.balletcoforum.com/topic/28726-can-i-buy-used-pointe-ballet-shoes-to-decorate/

I will refer you to this thread. I'm not going to engage with you otherwise on this Fiona.

https://www.balletcoforum.com/topic/27125-a-new-production-of-the-pharaohs-daughter/

Er, @FionaM, we've been through a similar discussion before. Copyright doesn't appear to be respected in Russia at this time, so I doubt if they'd care.

On the forum @LinMM if you type @ then Sop it should come up.

It's a mashup of my first two online identities: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) nick which was Sophie, and my first online role-playing game (RPG) persona which was Aoife.

I can't pronounce it, don't you even bother to try - it comes out sort of "Sofeefuh" 🤣🤣🤣 

It's a pretty safe guess on the socials that if you see Sophoife and Ballerina Gozira it's me (yes, I just remembered to update my avatar on the forum!).

I remember David Ashmole fondly from his ten years with AusBallet, @Sharon

He's another person astonished I'd seen that Manon. 

15 minutes ago, LinMM said:

Oooh maybe we can say hello then Anna C! 

I always stop when I read a post by or reference to @Anna C. It's my name and the first initial of my surname.

1 hour ago, Emeralds said:

This is a strange thing to say perhaps, but I never knew Nureyev danced Des Grieux!

You're not the only one.

Also on my Instagram is a photo a kind fellow fan took of self and Johan Kobborg after he and Alina Cojocaru danced what turned out to be his last Des Grieux, with AusBallet in 2014.

He was genuinely surprised to hear I'd seen Nureyev in the role: he hadn't known he'd danced it, either. And if anyone would know history, it's him.

That Nureyev danced Des Grieux is mentioned in passing in Zoe Anderson's The Royal Ballet: 75 Years and in Julie Kavanagh's Nureyev: The Life it is said that

'The Manon duet had never been so excitingly performed, Rudolf and Merle Park making the two lovers insatiably sexy by continuing kissing long after the music had stopped. In the biggest climax he spun her two full revolutions while lifting her diagonally upward, and then let go only to catch her a second before she hit the stage. "We hammed it up! - which it needs," Park says with a laugh. "We're both peasants and we both know how to ham."'

In the Kavanagh, Maude Lloyd Gosling (with her husband Nigel the critic identity Alexander Bland) is quoted as saying that "Rudolf had to beg to be given Manon." This was after a Roland Petit piece to Schoenberg's Pelléas et Mélisande was programmed for a celebration of Fonteyn's 35 years with the RB instead of Macmillan's Cain and Abel and MacMillan and Nureyev fell out, as M assumed, wrongly, according to Gosling, that N had sabotaged Cain and Abel in order to get a new Fonteyn-Nureyev vehicle (the Petit).

Unfortunately my copy of Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan by Jann Parry is inaccessible, so I can't see what it says on the matter.

I know, right?!

Incidentally... https://www.instagram.com/sophoife/p/syLG4uG6OB/

50 minutes ago, capybara said:

“His Nibs” ?????

 

He who debuted Des Grieux on that occasion. Mr Nureyev. 😘

50 minutes ago, capybara said:

Twenty years later, on return to the ROH, Mr Rancher (with fur and tiny dog)

My apologies to the late Mr Rencher. I think I'm right in saying a rancher was about the last career he might have considered...

31 minutes ago, Sim said:

Did they drop the Gaoler’s Mistress role, or have I been missing something??

They dropped the Mistress, and tweaked several other bits I am told.

His Nibs only did five Des Grieux at the ROH. It was our last London theatre before departing for Australia.

Twenty years later, on return to the ROH, Mr Rancher (with fur and tiny dog) signed my 1974 programme with some astonishment after playing the Don in the Baryshnikov Don Quixote, with Sylvie Guillem and Oliver Matz.

58 minutes ago, PeterS said:

February 3rd matinee will be the 300th performance by the Royal Ballet at the ROH. Perhaps a cake then? 

I shall have a cupcake on July 16, the fiftieth anniversary of my first Manon.

Townsperson: Derek Deane

Harlot: Wendy Ellis 

Gentleman: Wayne Eagling, David Ashmole

Beggar Chief: Wayne Sleep

Madame: Gerd Larsen

Gaoler's Mistress: Georgina Parkinson

Gaoler: David Drew

Lescaut's Mistress: Lesley Collier*

Monsieur GM: Derek Rencher

Lescaut: Desmond Kelly

Des Grieux: Rudolf Nureyev*

Manon: Merle Park*

* denotes rôle début 

At the ROH, Collier danced the Mistress just twice: on this evening and in 1977. She danced Manon once, in 1988.

10 hours ago, Mary said:

Yes.. indeed revolting. But so brilliantly 3 dimensional and  believeable done by Avis .

Haven't had the live Avis privilege but Steven Heathcote did Monsieur GM in AusBallet's last run of Manon and the slime absolutely oozing from his every pore...! He told me afterwards he had had discussion with Mr Avis on the role (way back, 2014).

So, so envious of those who saw this cast. 

Oh, I'm all in on Ben Shelton. I very much like his style and attitude.

On my second line is... practically every other player in the draw, except Tsitsipas, the rude child from Scandinavia (not Casper Ruud, Holger Rune), and Voldemort.

I would love to see Félix Auger-Aliassime, Andrey Rublev, or Jannik Sinner - if not Shelton - win the whole shebang.

On the women's side, if Storm Hunter gets past Barbora Krejčiková, the sky's pretty much the limit, but I find it hard to see anyone getting past both Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Świątek, which they would probably have to do to win the title.

The key point about it is that this letter refers only to North American copyright (the rights administered by Schirmer's).

Boosey and Hawkes' listing names four creators, including Lavrovsky, and the territories affected are listed. There is no suggestion at this time that they are to put out a new edition, although given that Schirmer's state the new scores are at the request of the Prokofiev estate, that is a future possibility.

No, I was talking about the first round, @Emeralds.

How is your friend avoiding men's matches given the courts mostly alternate? Is she running round various outside courts?

Well, Hunter got up and made the third round of the AO for the first time ever. The boost to her confidence of having reached number one in doubles has been immeasurable.

1 hour ago, alison said:

Well, in all fairness, the letter is rather obfuscatory, and we didn't know who it was being sent to, so it wasn't too obvious that it was North America only. 

Oh, I thought it was extremely clear.

"...are therefore protected in the United States for a period of 95 years from their initial publication dates. In other territories, the works are protected for the applicable term afforded to copyrighted works; joint works being protected based on the death date of the last surviving co-author. (Please refer to the information below as concerns such relevant dates.)"

In addition, a North American music professional would certainly know that Schirmer holds the rights in North America, not Boosey and Hawkes or another such company.

Clearly a lot of the BTL commenters are not music professionals judging by their knee-jerk responses.