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  1. Lizbie1
    Thanks - I’ve been through those but wanted to understand how uncomfortable it is relative to renowned uncomfortable seats which I know I can tolerate fairly happily. It’s scale I’m after I suppose!
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    As I’ve never been there - can anyone advise how the Garnier amphitheatre compares to the upper slips at Covent Garden or the Balcony at the Coliseum? I know the subject has been touched on in other threads but as it has arisen here...
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    I hate them! They show a lack of courtesy to the audience, as well as betraying a lack of understanding (or worse, caring) that many have trains to catch.
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    Well let’s hope this provides an incentive to start promptly, against recent trends.
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    This is no doubt true, but I think it's important to note that Kavanagh hints quite strongly at more personal reasons for Ashton beginning to favour Grant over Shaw.
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    Well since you mention it.. I’m not sure that some of the discussion about potential suitability has been that useful either. Sure, we know that there’s a question mark over whether Corrales will be able to dance Romeo, but until we have some intelligence from either him or the RB I can’t see much value in discussing it. And I think it *is* potentially intrusive talking about known injuries. I know nothing of Corrales’ case in particular, but if I were a promising young dancer facing a long lay-off or worse, I don’t think I’d want the general public talking about it, particularly with no facts to hand.
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    Sorry to be grumpy but must we keep going round the subject of who *might* be injured? It does seem rather pointless (and a little intrusive IMO) to keep speculating in the absence of any actual information.
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    Looks an improvement on this season! I'm thinking of heading over for Raymonda and/or the Balanchine.
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    I fear that there will be slim pickings at best for the Gala evening when general booking opens. I contacted the box office before booking opened for the highest level friends to ask whether there would be a cap on the number of tickets individuals could buy, given the recent experience of people trying to book for Forza. They replied to say that there would be limits other than “the usual ticket limit of 9 tickets per person”. I did try
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    Every year there’s at least one mystifying choice. Edited to add: by “mystifying”, I mean neither critics nor audiences liked it.
  11. Lizbie1
    When it comes to ballet and opera, the Olivier awards move in mysterious ways: (I’m pleased about John Macfarlane’s nomination for Swan Lake, though.)
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    Isn’t one of the reasons that prime John Tomlinson is practically irreplaceable?
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    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.
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    Thank you for this - he's so interesting!
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    I meant that the story is pretty much incidental to the dancing.
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    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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