Sebastian
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Bumping this up as I am planning to return it to the Box Office on Tuesday (still sold out).
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3 hours ago, MichelleS said:
I have a spare for this due to a last minute work commitment
Clore C12
£17
It's an e-ticket so easily transferable - please send me a PM and ideally also post here if you are interested
Thanks, MichelleS
Many thanks Michelle, I think my friend is still looking for a ticket (as at her limit with such bookings!) Will do what I can to get you a quick response!
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I have a spare ticket for the “full length” Fonteyn Insight (ie starting at 7.30pm) for this coming Thursday. Currently sold out:
https://www.roh.org.uk/insights/insights-celebrating-fonteyn
£17. Please PM as well as posting here if interested.
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This is very kind of you. Just sent you a PM.
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1 hour ago, Pas de Quatre said:
There is another thread with discussions about previous performances of this programme. I saw the première at Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth on 31st January - loved it!
Here:
https://www.balletcoforum.com/topic/19775-yorke-dance-project/
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On 21/04/2018 at 06:35, Geoff said:
As a postscript to the recent discussion on 32 fouettés, here is a clip of Beryl Grey, probably while still a teenager, doing Black Swan/Odile with John Field (the reference in the Huntley archive says the film has sound but this poor quality YouTube sample is silent) More information would be welcome.
The film has not disappeared, see this listing from the BFI’s catalogue:
http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150021215
However it is not clear from this information whether the BFI holds enough to project this in 3D, does anyone happen to know more?
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There is a little more here:
www.dancing-times.co.uk/force-of-nature-natalia -
On 02/09/2018 at 16:52, Lynette H said:
Oxford University Press has this information on its web site about a forthcoming biography of Petipa by Dr. Nadine Meisner. Note that the estimated publication date is in 2019.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marius-petipa-9780190659295?cc=gb&lang=en&#
The overview describes this as
- "First biography in English of the creative genius behind Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.
- Richly illustrated with archival photographs.
- Uses never before seen original material from Petipa's 63 years in Russia."
This is now available to buy as an e-book, for those who would like to read it on a tablet (hard copies appear not to be available until the end of next month):
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Nadine_Meisner_Marius_Petipa?id=qNmUDwAAQBAJ
Currently at a discounted price of £14.94.
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These screenings in June might be of interest to people in London:
https://www.curzoncinemas.com/mayfair/film-info/force-of-nature-natalia-
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On 06/03/2019 at 09:28, Sebastian said:
Might this be a good place to remind people of the short pieces of footage of Fonteyn dancing Aurora in 1939 (so far as I know the earliest recording of her)? They went up on YouTube in 2008:
Further to this I have found some other Fonteyn / Aurora snippets online, also dated 1939 but apparently from an entirely different kind of recording (and maybe not from the Alexandra Palace BBC performances):
Does anyone know any more about this?
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Wonder if anyone can help. I am looking for an article in the summer 1976 issue of “On Point” (vol.2, no. 1). This periodical was published from 1975 by the American Ballet Theatre, New York, but it does not seem any libraries in the UK carry a run of it. The RAD has a few issues of the magazine but sadly not the one I am looking for.
I would be most grateful for further information as to where one might find a copy.
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1 hour ago, Bluebird said:
You can download Chrome to your iPad. My iPad also has Safari but, since I wanted to be able to access the bookmarks I have on my PC, I downloaded Chrome as well. Although I’ve never used them, I’ve just checked and I have the three dots which give you the option of requesting the desktop site.
Many thanks Bluebird. Just wondering, have people with experience of Chrome had bad experiences with it (away from ROH I mean)? I don't have Chrome yet after having been repeatedly warned that it is some form of devilish invention (eg making Google even more obviously intrusive and creepy)? This may be unnecessary techno-anxiety but the advice was widespread when Chrome was new so I'd be glad of any informed comments.
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18 hours ago, Richard LH said:
Your first suggestion got me fiddling around a bit, and I now find that if I open the three dots in the top right of the Chrome for Android screen there is a "desktop site" box which if selected makes everything nice and small (after which I can zoom in or out as required using two fingers, so to speak) and also shows the "List View" option on the ROH site in portrait mode.
So thanks again...
Always willing to try things out. My tablet is an Ipad, which uses Safari. Does anyone have a similar fix for this set up (I have no three dots)?
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3 hours ago, billboyd said:
13 & 14 May -
Stalls Circle D50 (Standing) - £11
I would like 14 May Bill, will send PM.
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For those who have not yet caught up with the ROH “punch-up” story:
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Thanks for letting us know Ulla. I have just sent you a private message via the Forum’s messaging service,
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Might this be a good place to remind people of the short pieces of footage of Fonteyn dancing Aurora in 1939 (so far as I know the earliest recording of her)? They went up on YouTube in 2008:
Apparently nothing else of these recordings survives but I would love to know more. Sadly the website for the Alexandra Palace Television Society is dead so does anyone know how to contact Simon Vaughan or John Bliss?
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For those who have not yet caught up with the Vienna Coughing story:
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Some more historical comparisons in this enjoyable book review, just published:
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Perhaps of interest (hope the link works):
https://membership.theguardian.com/event/guardian-live-with-the-royal-opera-house-55897928208
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Tickets now spoken for
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In terms of limiting ticket purchases I just noticed that next Tuesday’s evening performance by the Royal Ballet School is marked
>>You may only purchase up to two tickets for this performance
Yet with less than a week to go the amphitheatre is still half empty. This seems to be exactly the opposite situation as with Forza (no ticket limit and a great clamour for tickets) so could it be that someone in the box office or wherever made a mistake? Or rather, two mistakes?
I point this out as I happen to be in happy possession of two cheap but good front side Amphi tickets for the School performance which I can now no longer use as I will be away on a job. Checking the website shows why no one seems to want them.
A review might be in order of what looks from this perspective to be rather random decisions about purchase limits.
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Tickets now spoken for
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While people are thinking about Forza, might I ask about something which has been puzzling me? Tony Pappano is quoted in an interview in the Friends magazine (an old issue, the interview was pegged to the Ring and is written by Neil Fisher) as saying of the lead role in Forza:
>>The soprano role is too hard
A member of my family debuted in this role at the Vienna Staatsoper before the war. She always told me that the reason she started her career with Forza was that this role is relatively short (Leonara appears at the beginning and the end) and not overly taxing.
Is the part being sung differently now, or was she wrong about it, or is Pappano, or did the interviewer mishear? Any clues from singers or whoever most welcome.
I ticket - Fonteyn Insight - Thursday 6th June - 7.30pm
in Ticket Exchange & Special Offers
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This is now going back to the Box Office.