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  1. Lizbie1
    Is there anything that we can't find a way to moan about here?
  2. Lizbie1
    I sometimes think I need a name for the feeling of simultaneous relief and disappointment when an an announcement means there's nothing extra I want to come up to London for.
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    Seconded! A short running time has tipped the balance for me several times, and I speak as someone for who most of the time and expense is spent travelling.
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    Good thing I'm not planning on seeing Swan Lake this season! I see that there is one less price band in the Amphi than for the MacMillan bill, and it looks like the missing band is very far down the order. I would not be at all surprised if the front amphi sides are £55.
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    It was definitely going on in Paris (Bastille) in July. I was rather surprised!
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    I think the Hippodrome trialled this a few years ago before Covid - I would have been watching WNO. I can't remember it causing any real disturbance.
  7. Lizbie1
    It's a lovely theatre and a lovely summery festival. When I went the "bell" to recall everyone milling around outside before curtain up was a brass fanfare from the balcony - the idea borrowed from Bayreuth I think.
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    I've seen quite a lot of empty seats at the Bastille for some operas. I agree that the Garnier gets a lot of tourist traffic.
  9. Lizbie1
    Isn't it related to why gymnasts are nearly always short? Google suggests this helps with "rotational skills" - I suppose that means logically that if your extremities are further from their axis they have more distance to travel, slowing you down.
  10. Lizbie1
    I do think that fewer alternatives is a big but underremarked factor when we start hand-wringing about relative audience numbers for opera and ballet in other countries.
  11. Lizbie1
    I agree, and obviously they need to fix it! And I've said several times that it was probably a serious mistake for the website to be developed in-house. But the team running it now is probably not very closely related to the team who developed it - which presents its own problems - and has to deal with the fallout from decisions made 5 years ago or more. The ROH as an organisation can be at fault without everyone in it being to blame.
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    But do we know that the Don Q fiasco *was* an IT problem rather than a mistake by whoever looks after ticket prices? When an opera singer's name is mistakenly loaded into a ballet cast list, that wouldn't normally be down to IT, it's just a content editor screwing up (not helped by the lack of checks that goes with not having a proper workflow set-up - but that's another story). Without knowing who's responsible for loading prices into seat plans my assumption would be that this also is not within IT's remit.
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    I understand the frustration and that the comments above were not entirely serious, but while we don't know what the underlying cause of the website problem is, it's a bit unfair to say the whole team should be got rid of. Websites like this are complicated things and very often it's hard to diagnose what's going wrong, especially when there appears to be no rhyme or reason as to who is affected - they could well be struggling to replicate the problem and are therefore working in the dark. I get that the "advice" may look like they're blaming the end users but I very much doubt that's the case: while they try to find a fix they're just giving tips that will at least help some people. Would we prefer that they just say tough luck, come back in six months?
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    IIRC someone upthread* mentioned seeing Ashton references - Symphonic Variations specifically - in Four Last Songs. I thought I caught a Monotones II reference in the men's pirouettes. It's funny how these choreographers make such an impression that either we or choreographers or both can't escape them (not that you'd want to). *Edited to add that I can't find this in the thread so presumably it was in a review.
  15. Lizbie1
    My one real gripe about the programme is the amplification of the violin solos. I don't understand why it was thought necessary.
  16. Lizbie1
    I saw today's matinee and second this post!
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    Back before Covid I stayed in Paris to see four PO and POB performances and all four were cancelled in this way. All was not lost as I ate very well and caught up on a few museums On another trip (just before Covid stopped everything) one POB performance was cancelled and one went ahead but with a statement read out at the start; I was also at the Opera Comique on the same trip and a similar statement had a "mixed reception". I think sympathy was beginning to run short by then.
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    IIRC at least two weeks' notice is required, unless the employer agrees to cut that to one week (I don't know why they would).
  19. Lizbie1
    I look at this page more often than I should admit to: https://theopera101.com/operaabc/runningtimes/ - NB you can sort by length!
  20. Lizbie1
    This is heretical stuff but I find most Mozart operas too long and could live without Puccini. Verdi, however...!
  21. Lizbie1
    Agree - La Traviata is IMO the best opera for beginners. I agree with the comments above about Cav/Pag and L'elisir d'amore. Casting for Cav looks good but I've no idea about most of the Pag singers; L'elisir d'amore is very well cast.
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    Has anyone noticed timings after the first couple of nights? Has it settled down to comfortably within 2 1/2 hours?
  23. Lizbie1
    The previous Bath show had a staged version of Britten's Phaedra in the first half (I can remember this because the mezzo Christine Rice made it to the bar during the interval!) followed by Minotaur. It is indeed a small venue but they used the stage very cleverly.
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    I saw Minotaur first time around in Bath and it's very good.
  25. Lizbie1
    I wonder if it's something to do with the rights holder?
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