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  1. bridiem
    I found this by googling - I hope you can access it OK: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/evening-standard-west-end-final-extra/20191023/281595242313721
  2. bridiem
    No wonder you're confused, Dawnstar. They can't both be right...
  3. bridiem
    What a lovely interview! Very funny that she considers preparing her shoes the hardest part of her job (not doing 32 fouettés, or dealing with injury or pain, or a million other things I might have expected her to say).
  4. bridiem
    Very interesting... So how does Mr Beard's email that tally with the email Dawnstar received? Was the first email incorrect, or has their ticketing policy for this production suddenly been changed? (Has the Arts Council been in touch??). Though if there were less than 100 tickets left at the time of Dawnstar's email, there must in fact be very few tickets being held back now (unless that figure was incorrect, of course). And still no explanation of why no cap was applied if there was obviously going to be such high demand.
  5. bridiem
    No; but it's been noted by the relevant people, so who knows what discussions may take place about this.
  6. bridiem
    Am I hallucinating or is that Alessandra Ferri in the corner by the piano?! Added: Yes it is - just seen a clear shot of her. Wow!
  7. bridiem
    Because it should be being promoted on all the ROH's platforms. A lot of people DON'T use social media almost exclusively (though given the state of the ROH website I wouldn't blame them for bypassing it).
  8. bridiem
    I can't even find it on the ROH website! (I haven't tried the search box, but if that's the only way of finding info about it that is ridiculous - it should be being promoted to people who don't already know it's happening. If they take it at all seriously it should jump out at you as soon as you go to the home page.)
  9. bridiem
    Terrible!!
  10. bridiem
    Another Instagram update from Steven McRae about his injury: 'COMPLETE RUPTURE💥 Well there it is..... Interestingly I thought I had tripped over something on stage last Wednesday but that sound was actually my Achilles snapping! I am in great hands and I will have surgery at the start of next week - Possibly setting a @guinnessworldrecords for most surgeries for a Dancer in such a short space of time 🤪 Oddly, I am excited for this next challenge, and I know that I will have the support that I need at home and at the @royaloperahouse to make this a successful journey back to the stage 💪🏻 Once again, thank you for the messages and kind words from all over the world - Let’s do this 🕺🏼' What unbelievable resilience he has!
  11. bridiem
    If you get no or an unsatisfactory response, maybe you email Alex Beard direct as a number of us did last year (and he replied)? His email address is Alex.Beard@roh.org.uk
  12. bridiem
    Hayward and Sambé did Fille together 3 years ago, and very wonderful they were too.
  13. bridiem
    What a load of flannel. No wonder you're angry/upset, JNC. I hope you will persist in trying to get a proper answer from the ROH.
  14. bridiem
    That's shocking.
  15. bridiem
    Yes, but only up to a point (as you will discover the longer you use the forum). Threads can indeed can diverge to include a range of comments and thoughts, which can be very interesting and valuable. But if a thread is moving too far away from its stated topic, the moderators (or anyone else) may issue a polite reminder and suggest (or start) a new thread (and the mods may move some of the comments across if relevant) so that the new discussion can continue. But since the topic of this thread is package booking, it hasn't in fact 'meandered' anywhere.
  16. bridiem
    Just to point out that (according to the Cambridge Dictionary) 'vilification' means 'the act of saying or writing unpleasant things about someone or something, in order to cause other people to have a bad opinion of them'. The only posts I have ever seen on this forum that come close to 'vilification' have been reported and deleted and the poster banned.
  17. bridiem
    I started off (in her previous performance) thinking that Osipova was too knowing at the outset; but as the performance went on I realised that she was still 'on a journey' and still producing a dramatically valid interpretation: her Manon thought she could control events (and herself) but was proved fatally wrong. So I had both reactions within the same performance!
  18. bridiem
    I think the principles of booking for tickets at the ROH, and its funding and Friends membership benefits, are relevant for ballet lovers too. (And there have in the past been concerns about not being able to get tickets for certain ballets/casts.) So I think this is a perfectly valid discussion.
  19. bridiem
    Just to mention that I have written some very positive things about David Hallberg here without a word of vilification.
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    It is indeed! Happy anniversary, Dawnstar, and thank you so much for sharing your impressions on the forum in the last year.
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    I understand that the ROH wants (and needs) to incentivise Friends membership; but it absolutely should not do that by allowing Friends to buy all the tickets for any given production (and not even acknowledging that they're doing so). There are all sorts of other ways for Friends to get value from their membership. (I speak as a Friend.)
  22. bridiem
    I think Campbell's line is immaculate; he doesn't have long limbs but he uses them with poetry, intelligence and musicality. He dances ballet as it should be danced, so the choreography (if it's good!) sings as it should. He gives full value to every step, every turn, every lift, and every element of the story. And his technique and strength are impeccable. Not everyone can be Muntagirov (for example); but Campbell is just as capable of producing balletic beauty with a different kind of body and a different kind of personality. I feel so blessed to be able to see both of them (and so many other wonderful dancers).
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    I was in tears too. Such consummate storytelling from Hayward and Campbell - every action, every feeling, every thought as clear as daylight and combined with beautiful, rigorous technical prowess and intense musicality. AND two dancing as one; they are so beautifully matched physically and have absolute confidence in each other so they can take risks, physically and emotionally. Utter brilliance. And Corrales was a wonderful Lescaut - a real scoundrel, but with the charm to get his way (until he gets out of his depth). Hayward's Manon was heartbreaking; the jewels and money were just a temporary attraction that would lead her and Des Grieux to a better life - in themselves they were no competition for him, this loving and sincere man and the only person not treating her as a commodity. They were a means to an end. I've never before noticed a Manon recoil in such fear from the ratcatcher (who was beside Monsieur G. M. at the time - i.e. a terrible warning to her of the danger of what she was doing, but a warning she ignored until it was too late. And Campbell showed me for the first time the moment that Des Grieux assents to 'help' Lescaut at the end of Act I - normally all I ever see is Lescaut twisting his arm and Des Grieux struggling bitterly. I always assumed the assent came between the acts, but this time Campbell nodded desperately and therefore took the story forward as it should. So many superb moments from both of them, and as a couple. Magnificent.
  24. bridiem
    The ROH gets by far the highest level of funding from the Arts Council (just over £24 million this financial year - the next biggest is the South Bank with just over £18 million). That shouldn't dictate artistic policy, but it does give the ROH the highest level of responsibility in terms of (at least potential) public access to performances.
  25. bridiem
    I don't know, LinMM - I wouldn't have thought they'd even need your address simply to sign up to an email list. But I can't remember signing up so I'm not sure!
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