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  1. RuthE
    Don't forget that there is absolutely nothing to stop you, as a Supporting Friend, going back and making an additional booking as a member of the general public once spare student tickets have been released for sale.
  2. RuthE
    To repeat a tip I have given on a previous thread, bookmark the following link to the list of everything going on sale today: http://www.roh.org.uk/events/booking/20151021 And every time a "booking day" is coming up, amend the date code at the end of the URL in your bookmark to match the date in question. Then when you have selected a ticket and are in your shopping basket, instead of clicking on "Continue Shopping", all you need to do is return to your bookmark to select your next date.
  3. RuthE
    It's hardly unheard-of for the RB to miss a year with Nutcracker. They didn't do it last Christmas.
  4. RuthE
    I for one think it's lovely to see the underrated and underused Laura Morera in first cast of a new work!
  5. RuthE
    Yes - "shortage" was your choice of word, not mine. The fact that so many of the Mayerling leads from last time round have now left the company doesn't mean the company doesn't now have the capability to produce multiple casts - it simply means that should they choose to do so there will be one heck of a lot of debuts!
  6. RuthE
    I was having this conversation about Mayerling with a friend just the other day! I fear that if he hasn't formally retired the role yet, he probably will have done by the time the RB next get around to doing it. *Are* we likely to see Mayerling again at the RB any time soon? I'm thinking back to the casting last time and almost all of the Rudolfs and Mary Vetseras have since left the company. Apologies if off-topic!
  7. RuthE
    Is he perhaps injured?
  8. RuthE
    Yes! It was my first Mayerling, too...
  9. RuthE
    Thanks! I wasn't going to bother, but I've just booked a ticket for the second cast next Monday.
  10. RuthE
    No, but it has been mentioned elsewhere on this forum that the role of the prince is being greatly increased. This was something Gary Avis mentioned when coaching Beatriz Stix-Brunell and Ryoichi Hirano on the final pas de deux at the Insight Event the other week - the prince is now present throughout the ballet, with a demanding solo just prior to the pas de deux.
  11. RuthE
    Sorry to state the obvious, but couldn't she ask the girls she's seen wearing them?
  12. RuthE
    For all of those who (like me) had to miss yesterday's matinee - I had a really good ticket, too, before becoming unavoidably double-booked! - console yourselves with the knowledge that this ballet comes round every two seasons at the RB, and a roaringly successful joint debut should mean that we get more opportunities to see both dancers do it again in the not too distant future, and if we're lucky, for the next quarter of a century.
  13. RuthE
    Hahaha, same here, Timmie! I was on a train with poor data connection when the RB class started (or more accurately, when the filmed coverage joined them, as that must have been half an hour in) but by the time the Two Pigeons rehearsal was shown I was sitting by the ballerina statue opposite the ROH, SURROUNDED by pigeons, awaiting the R&J matinee. Nice to see it properly on my TV today, though, rather than my tiny phone screen. Having been at the RB Insight last week at which Gary Avis coached Beatriz Stix-Brunell and Ryoichi Hirano on the Raven Girl pas de deux, I found it especially interesting to see them work on part of the same with Wayne McGregor. It seemed to be a lot tighter by yesterday. I wish I could remember, though, which moment it was that Gary highlighted as something they'd have to find out McGregor's opinion on... I saw lots of ballet on World Ballet Day (R&J in the afternoon, Cheri in the evening) but am only now catching up properly with a lot of the filmed coverage!
  14. RuthE
    You'd think - but given that "the Orchestra of the ROH" only got back from the opera tour in Japan a few days ago, my guess is that at the moment they are still heavily reliant on deps in the pit for R&J. That said, it's been a while since I've been impressed with the trumpet and horn sections of the ROH orchestra, even in shows for which you would expect them to have the usual quorum of core personnel. I wish this wasn't the case.
  15. RuthE
    I do hope that much of it will be available on demand afterwards, as has been the case in the past. I'll have to miss almost all of it live, as I'll be on a train home in the morning following an overnight trip, and then at the ROH for the R&J matinee and Cheri evening show...
  16. RuthE
    Yes, I remember this being particularly impressive on Saturday too. It's a point at which, naming no names, I've often in the past been disappointed!
  17. RuthE
    That was my feeling too, though I'm pleased to see Alison McWhinney being given a big opportunity like this...
  18. RuthE
    Vadim was a lovely Romeo in ENB's version at the Royal Albert Hall...
  19. RuthE
    So did I (particularly with Muntagirov, when she took over after Lauren Cuthbertson's injury). I'm generally more of a fan of her contemporary things, though...
  20. RuthE
    I *have* liked Sarah Lamb very much as Juliet in the past. She was, in point of fact, my first RB Juliet (in the January 2012 run), and I liked her in the Autumn 2013 run too. However, I was at Saturday's performance and for some reason this time she didn't do it for me at all. I think perhaps my memories of McRae with Obraztsova in the last run - who I loved so much together at the dress rehearsal that I ended up going to see all three of their performances - were too fresh in my mind for me not to find their chemistry lacking. I'd previously seen Lamb opposite Bonelli and Pennefather. (Edited to add: I've just read the Telegraph review and particularly the following paragraph: "much to enjoy ... but ... repeatedly had me thinking back to the devastating, Wagnerian passion that Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta ignited together as the star-cross’d lovers just a few years ago, on the same stage.". Um, yes. I saw them do it three days after I first saw Sarah Lamb do it, and I actually can't argue with that.)
  21. RuthE
    Yes indeed - also good advice! I found myself doing that quite a lot when booking my Giselles.
  22. RuthE
    The quickest and easiest way I find to get from shopping basket to my next event on "booking day" is by using and returning to what I call the "shopping list" page. They don't make it easy to find these days - it used to come up if you clicked on the date of the "booking day" on any show page. www.roh.org.uk/events/booking/20150922 This link will work for ordinary friends' ballet booking day on 22nd September but for a future booking day, just amend the last few digits of the URL to show the correct date. 1) Paste the link into your browser 2) Bookmark it 3) When booking goes live, make your first booking 4) When your first ticket has been added to your basket, return to your bookmarked page instead of clicking "Continue Shopping". Depending on your browser you may find it quicker and easier to copy the URL once it's in your browser and paste it back in whenever you need to, rather than using a bookmark. Hope this is helpful to some!
  23. RuthE
    I rather suspect that if your son and daughter trained into the opposite professions - he as a dancer and she as a footballer - he'd still be at a potential advantage, assuming equal talent/hard work/quality of available training (whatever that means, in two very different fields!) unless there's a lot more money and opportunity in women's football than I imagine there is! Money isn't the only measure of success, of course...
  24. RuthE
    I wondered the same, and I'm not sure. I was aware last year (privately) that OHP and the RBS were in talks about future collaboration/venue use, but that's all.
  25. RuthE
    And they've now announced that there will be four performances by the Royal Ballet School from 29th June 2016, building on the school's history of performing at Holland Park in the 1960s and 80s. Further details when available.
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