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  1. Lizbie1
    I think there are two things: 1. Upper management seems to have lost focus on what they are there for, namely the presentation of opera and ballet 2. The calculation was apparently made that bringing in new audiences - and I am all for this - must be at the expense of the existing audience (in effect that this is a “zero sum game”) Add to these an obviously faltering website build and a lot is explained.
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    If it is cancelled and tickets are offered for other nights in exchange, at least it might help fill some empty seats!
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    Used to.
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    I'm still trying to find my way with New Adventures - is this more likely to appeal to a mainly-ballet-fan than Swan Lake (which I was underwhelmed with)?
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    ACE targets. Also, the Director of Media and Audiences' background is with the BBC, which is *obsessed* with yoof (this isn't the Daily Mail talking, I have several family members there).
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    Am I wrong in thinking it sold well last time? That might have created unrealistic expectations.
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    But you can line them up more efficiently! My plan, if I can get the tickets, is to see the Firebird triple and SFB programme D on Friday 7th then SFB programme C and the Fonteyn gala on Saturday 8th. If the Cinderella interested me I'd add that on on the Thursday evening or Sunday afternoon. The Saturday before I'll be at the R&J matinee and SFB programme B, with probably SFB programme A on the Sunday afternoon. We out-of-towners get quite adept at looking for these opportunities, with travel being the major outlay.
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    Seeing as the person in charge of marketing etc. opens their description of the ROH in their LinkedIn profile with the words "Global tourism destination", you might have a point.
  9. Lizbie1
    Thank you for this - he's so interesting!
  10. Lizbie1
    I meant that the story is pretty much incidental to the dancing.
  11. Lizbie1
    The thing is, I don't think there's much "sense of a narrative ballet" to interrupt in Don Q.
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    In his (slight) defence, he's one of the very few ballet reviewers from national papers who bothers occasionally to venture outside the M25.
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    It just seems like they've got this season wrong, somehow, with Mayerling, Two Pigeons and Frankenstein all selling slowly but not enough Nutcracker or - more surprisingly - Patineurs performances scheduled to meet demand.I I too would like it to work out - though a silver lining of this season being a disappointment financially might be the prevention of the threatened "all recent commissions in 2020" scheme (which we've heard nothing about recently anyway). Another might be some of those boasting of increased ticket revenue being faced with the realities of a non-Swan Lake dominated season.
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    There’s a job advert up for a developer which says that the website gets 450,000 monthly visitors to the website - I wonder how that stacks up against social media “reach”.
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    Do you know who coached them?
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    It is indeed a very long announcement!
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    That might change after I finally do see it!
  18. Lizbie1
    I wish they were bringing the Kylián programme to the UK rather than the León/Lightfoot/Pite/Goecke collaboration.
  19. Lizbie1
    It’ll be the official agencies returning them to the box office (as they are entitled to do).
  20. Lizbie1
    Doubtless this reflects my contrary nature, but I read it more that sometimes - and I speak as an admirer of Campbell - the praise of some dancers on this forum can be so relentless that it makes people like me start to question the consensus and find flaws (and no dancer is perfect in every role), rather than simply enjoy a dancer's strengths. That said, I won't hear a word against Muntagirov
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    Winter is here. Quite a bit has changed since, though!
  22. Lizbie1
    In fairness its marked in the casting pdfs.
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    Lots more information in this interview from today’s links: http://www.seeingdance.com/against-the-stream-26022019/
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    I agree that it’s just a simple human error. However - and this is speaking from experience - you’d expect a very public-facing website to have an approval system built into it (called workflow) which is designed so that you can’t normally publish changes without someone else checking your work. This isn’t the first time I’ve suspected that this isn’t the case with the ROH website. I don’t blame whoever made the mistake, but I do think it’s another symptom of a sub-standard website build.
  25. Lizbie1
    What a cliffhanger! Let us know what happens next...
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