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    The ROH booking website - what can we do?

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    On 10/01/2023 at 15:53, alison said:

    Tried to pick up a couple of returned tickets for tonight's Nutcracker earlier today.  Website wouldn't allow me to take both of them because apparently I was leaving a single ticket in between.  Not unless they've started numbering their seats something-and-a-half, I wasn't :(


    I had this same message pop up on two occasions when trying to purchase two tickets. Both times, it ended up that one of the tickets was actually no longer available (or was in someone else’s basket). I assumed that had prompted the strange message and I just put it down to a glitch/slightly odd set-up for that type of situation. 

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    Royal Ballet Onegin 2020

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    2 hours ago, Dawnstar said:

     

    So did I! Although most of her duels aren't fatal, as the protaganists are decent enough to delope or aim somewhere non-lethal. I wonder why Onegin doesn't do that, given Lenksy is supposed to be his friend & he seems reluctant to accept his challenge, you'd think he'd try not to kill him.


    It has been a while since I read Evgeny Onegin (back when I was at school) but if I recall correctly, Onegin does try to not kill Lensky. 

    A lot of the nuance of Onegin’s character is lost in adaptation to ballet, which is inevitable I suppose, just like it is in translation. I find him a bit more sympathetic, although not exactly likeable, in the book than in the ballet (I don’t know the opera at all) – it needs a fine and sensitive actor to make the ballet character something more than two dimensional. I thought Bolle was superb on Wednesday and managed to create a fleshed out character, more reminiscent of Pushkin’s Onegin in essence for me than anyone else I have seen. I got (in no particular order) arrogance, boredom, haughtiness, condescension, resignation, cruelty, politeness, passion, flirtatiousness, pride, embarrassment, love, loneliness, anger, despondency, honour, desperation, regret and heartbreak from him.


    I thought Nuñez really upped her performance dancing with Bolle – they do seem to have great chemistry. Her emotional connection to Tatiana was far more evident for me on Wednesday than it was on Saturday. 

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    ROH Auditorium Quirks

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    4 minutes ago, Richard LH said:

    3) Has anyone else noticed fairly large flakes of something fluttering down in the midst of  various recent performances? Are these snowflakes trying to get a look in, due to the  absence of  The Nutcracker this season, or maybe dandruff from the Ballet Gods on high? 


    Could it be stray confetti left over from the finale of Coppélia? I noticed it last night. 

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    Royal Ballet Sleeping Beauty, 2019-20

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    44 minutes ago, prs59 said:


    I thought I’d posted a reply but maybe gremlins are at work so here goes again and apologies if it’s a repeat:

     thanks for clarifying @Thalia I was aware that Matty had already danced bluebird but not who his partner was. Perhaps in the upcoming performances he will also be partnered by Magri. Whomever it is, we shall see on the days in question.  


    I understand it is Naghdi he is due to be partnering tomorrow and next Thursday. 

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