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  1. RuthE
    There's one more row of seating than there used to be, and as Alison says, they are nicer than before. However the rake is annoyingly shallow.
  2. RuthE
    Particularly in the smaller roles.
  3. RuthE
    Mine is a comment on last Thursday's performance rather than last night's, but her hands and fingers were so beautiful in the fish-dives. To be fair, I feel like that about Serenade as well...
  4. RuthE
    That's it. If we all give a big cheer when Gary Avis comes out after Nutcracker and throws a cloud of glitter in the air, then it's equally appropriate to boo a Rothbart or Carabosse who swoops out looking evil. It would be inappropriate for a baddie in a serious adult human-story-ballet, but then, that'll be why we don't see the Gaoler from Manon coming out for his curtain call making obscene suggestive gestures
  5. RuthE
    I agree with you on the whole, but I wouldn't judge people for making an exception when the subject matter is - like the subject matter of pantomimes - a popular fairy tale.
  6. RuthE
    Thanks, Bluebird!
  7. RuthE
    Must catch this on Youtube - it isn't a piece I know well, and wish I could have been there last night. I saw the last ENB Coppelia with Rojo and Lendorf, and the Mikhailovsky(?) one with Polunin. But both of those were quite a long time ago, the RB hasn't done Coppelia in the whole time I've been going to ballet, and the only tune I can ever bring to mind from the score is the Mazurka, because we used to play it in school orchestra (bearing in mind I left school 23 years ago...)
  8. RuthE
    Incidentally, I watched a bit of my Rojo/Acosta DVD the other day to check something, and noted that Manon's Act 2 dress had sleeves. When did it become the current strappy version?
  9. RuthE
    I actually emailed Customer Services after Thursday's performance to commend the ushering, in particular the lady on rear stalls right who had her hands constantly full with phone users.
  10. RuthE
    Excellent. I’ll send you a PM. Tickets all now re-homed 🙂
  11. RuthE
    31/12 ticket now gone as well. Only the 28/12 evening performance remaining.
  12. RuthE
    28/12 matinee ticket now sold to Bruce. The other two remain available.
  13. RuthE
    I've booked a holiday in Italy for New Year and will therefore no longer be able to use the following tickets for the RB's Coppelia: Saturday 28th December (2pm) - O'Sullivan/Sambe/Mosley - SCS D26 - £10 Saturday 28th December (7pm) - Naghdi/Ball/Gartside - SCS D27 - £10 Tuesday 31st December (5pm) - Choe/Acri/Mosley - Balcony Standing D32 - £10 All are e-tickets. Please get in touch if interested, and post here so that others know which one you've asked for.
  14. RuthE
    Ticket now spoken for
  15. RuthE
    Thanks Andy, I await your PM.
  16. RuthE
    I somehow had a different cast written down for this performance, and obtained a ticket by mistake! It's Osipova/Hallberg. I therefore have Stalls Circle Standing D30 for sale, £11, e-ticket.
  17. RuthE
    That was the only technical slip I noticed, however.
  18. RuthE
    I’m sorry to cheapen the discussion, but for me, most of the Prologue Fairy names sound like brands of air-freshener...
  19. RuthE
    Clarification for the benefit of the general readership: zxDaveM and I were standing in adjacent positions last night.
  20. RuthE
    It’s a bit of a shock to the system, isn’t it? I’m trying to work out why a woman with an American accent sounds so out of place to my ear in this context, as there’s really no reason why it should.
  21. RuthE
    By the time they made it to their seats, the curtain was very much up. The techies in the lighting box must have loved being suddenly stood in front of during the performance, too...
  22. RuthE
    Full marks(!) last night to the couple at Sleeping Beauty who returned to their seats in Stalls Circle row A, dead centre, after the curtain had gone up on Act 1 - thus disturbing all those on the right-hand side of the centre block of row A, and blocking the view of all in rows A-D, who had had the common sense to get there on time.
  23. RuthE
    I googled this on Friday and nobody else seems to know either!
  24. RuthE
    Now sorted, thanks to ajf!
  25. RuthE
    I wish to add to those who have praised Yasmine Naghdi. Matthew Ball and Fumi Kaneko. I was tired last night, and as many of you already know, Sleeping Beauty is one of my least favourite ballets - classical tutu ballets aren't really my thing, especially those with more divertissements than plot. I only book for it because there are certain dancers I especially want to see, and I have been known to turn up just to see Act 1 on its own (minus the Prologue). Indeed, by the interval last night following the Prologue, and in spite of the stellar performances of the Fairies which were certainly not lost on me, I was starting to wonder if I would last the evening, never mind the other 3 performances I intend to attend. But as soon as Naghdi came on I was immediately transported, and remained highly entertained until the end! Though my single favourite moment probably came from Kaneko... the LOOK she gave the prince when he wasn't bright enough to figure out for himself how to wake Aurora! A word of praise, too, for the usher on Rear Orchestra Stalls Right, who spotted mobile phone after mobile phone and clamped down on the various offenders faster than greased lightning.
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