Sebastian

I have one standing (central SCS) ticket for tomorrow's matinee of Onegin for sale. £9. E-ticket so can send by email. Please PM as well as posting here if interested.

Ticket now spoken for

I have one ticket for tomorrow's rehearsal of Onegin for sale: Amphi D 80. £15. E-ticket so can send. Please PM as well as posting here if interested.

Third and final part of the programme extract:

Second part (to upload this I needed to log out of the Forum and then log in again, surely there must be a better way!):

Many apologies, they show up fine on my computer. If no admin can help clarify what the problem might be, let me see if posting them here as jpgs in separate replies helps. First part here (the restriction on image size requires splitting up)

Following this useful account by FLOSS of the current iteration of the 1946 production, here for comparison is what Vsevolozshky and Petipa published in 1890, in the programme for the first performance:

Indeed. However, caveat emptor. The fact that Tom Service can get through half an hour on Radio 3 without once mentioning that the bulk of the choreography - and certainly the bit everyone remembers - is by Ivanov should make one wary. However I liked that the programme was done at all, and some of the musical selections were thoughtfully away from the obvious. For those who might like something more serious about the Nutcracker, here is a wonderful article by Damien Mahiet from 2016: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drs.2016.0156

A repeat of last year’s interesting Radio 3 programme about The Nutcracker was transmitted last week and is now online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001ss8

Perhaps of interest, there is currently a repeat of a Radio 3 programme about the Nutcracker available online (which manages to include slavery in the West Indies): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001ss8

More of Ratmansky working on his Giselle appeared during World Ballet Day this year.The section starts around 3 hours and 30 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF5Nkg_MrhE

What a wonderful line-up Bruce, thank you so much. Maybe the recording exists somewhere?

Thank you LinMM, it’s an interesting puzzle. In fact a few pages earlier on this thread FLOSS posted about this: https://www.balletcoforum.com/topic/21564-royal-ballet-coppelia-dec-2019-jan-2020/?do=findComment&comment=303465

At the risk of trying everyone's patience, there is an earlier use of the name Swanhilda (this time with an h) which might interest people. Charles Dickens co-owned and edited a weekly magazine in the 1850s called Household Words. There we find a piece called Wild Legends which purports to retell folk tales from around Bohemia (more exactly, Oberlansitz). One of the wild legends tells of a maiden in a castle who is called Swanhilda. However her adventures do not resemble what happens in either E T A Hoffman or the ballet, nor do we know if Dickens wrote this piece as the articles and stories in Household Words were published anonymously. Perhaps Swanhilda - with an h - is Anglophone, whereas the Francophone spelling is Swanilda. Just a guess.

The character names in the one-act 1852 opera La poupée de Nuremberg - with music as you say by Adam - are Bertha, Donathan, Miller and Cornelius. The name Swanilda appears to be original to the 1870 ballet libretto by Nuitter.

Wikipedia? Given how Wikipedia articles are compiled, this needs checking. So please note first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppélia I assume this is the page you looked at. And yes the caption to the photograph is indeed currently spelled with an h. However where does whichever editor who wrote that caption get their spelling from? Presumably from the photograph itself, so clicking on that takes one to... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppélia#/media/File:Coppelia_-Swanilda_-Giuseppina_Bozzachi_-Act_I-Scene_2_-Paris_-1870_-2.JPG You will notice now in the information shown about the photograph that Ivor Guest (from whose 1974 book the picture is taken) spells it without an h, so whoever drew on this photographic source to write the caption seems to have made a mistake. Everything on Wikipedia needs a source - preferably a secondary source - and the source for the caption is the 1974 book. Perhaps I was not clear in my earlier post. The costume designer - of the costumes worn by the dancer who created the role - spelled the name Swanilda on a drawing made in 1869-70, as can clearly be seen on the original to which I linked. I submit that those who worked on the first production knew how the name should be spelled. I suggest this is therefore a far more plausible source than either a book published in 1974 (even though it spells the name the same way) or a Wikipedia article, which by its very nature can never be more than a secondary, provisional and ever changing project.

The original ballet of 1870 was premiered in Paris and the Bibliothèque nationale has put some helpful documents of the period online. For example: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8454648k/f14.item.r=coppélia 1870 The spelling on that contemporary document is clearly (see the top right) Swanilda. For those who want to check further, full details of this source are here: Title : [ Coppélia ou la fille aux yeux d'émail : vingt-deux maquettes de costumes / par Alfred Albert et Paul Lormier] Author : Albert, Alfred (1814?-1879). Dessinateur Author : Lormier, Paul (1813-1895). Dessinateur Publication date : 1869-1870 Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b8454648k Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Bibliothèque-musée de l'opéra, D216-23 (43-64) Relationship : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb409159018

Just out of the Otello revival dress rehearsal. We don’t review rehearsals but if anyone was wondering what the 2pm Floral Street crowd was roaring at, this was when Jaho and Kunde came out. Not many tickets left for the run but if you are still wondering whether to go, I suggest doing what you can to get in.

Gone back to the box office

Gone back to the box office

(Bumping this up as it’s tonight)

PPS One of the admins has just told me that the problem is because your PM mailbox quota has been used up. As your message box is full, they suggest you delete a few old ones to make space. I hope this is helpful! Sebastian

For Sale The Sleeping Beauty Thursday 5 December 2019, 7.30pm Lamb/Hirano Upper Slips, CC-21 £11 e-ticket so can email. Please PM as well as posting here if interested.

PS Just discovered your message box says you can’t receive messages. Are you able to message me? Sorry Sebastian

I would like this, will PM you now. Thanks Sebastian