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  1. Here for example is the review in The Observer: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/18/tosca-royal-opera-review-freddie-de-tommaso-oksana-lyniv-handel-messiah-hanover-band-kings-place?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
  2. There is a nice piece about this new tenor (the first English Cavaradossi at Covent Garden since 1963) in today's Times. As it happens I heard him (in a smaller part) in Vienna in September: I (and the local crowd) were most impressed. The article is behind a paywall but happy to help those who send me an email address by PM.
  3. Thanks Fonty. Some of us tackled this in some detail back in 2017, when ENB mounted their production, see these posts and the subsequent discussion: English National Ballet: Mary Skeaping's Giselle, London Coliseum 2017 - Page 4 - Performances seen & general discussions - BalletcoForum https://www.balletcoforum.com/topic/14339-english-national-ballet-mary-skeapings-giselle-london-coliseum-2017/?do=findComment&comment=200100
  4. Sadly I can’t use my ticket for Traviata on Monday, Upper Slips BB1 £17 for e-ticket. Please PM as well as post here if interested. Many thanks.
  5. (Also posted on Tickets) Sadly I can’t use my ticket for Traviata on Monday, BB1 Upper Slips. £17 for e-ticket. Please PM as well as post here if interested. Many thanks.
  6. (As just posted in Tickets) It now looks as if I won't be able to make the Friends rehearsal for Macbeth, Amphitheatre Row A, centre. £30 for e-ticket. Please PM as well as post here if interested. Many thanks.
  7. It now looks as if I won't be able to make the Friends rehearsal for Macbeth, Amphitheatre Row A, centre. £30 for e-ticket. Please PM as well as post here if interested. Many thanks.
  8. Although this could be posted on the thread about the current run of Giselle I put it here as that thread has already moved on from Thursday's premiere, which saw Osipova return to one of her greatest roles. I have just received a comment from an old friend who was there and which seems worth sharing: >>My husband was on the film unit that had been quickly assembled to film the Bolshoi on their first visit to Britain in 1956. They filmed all night at Covent Garden. He described with awe how Ulanova, then in her late 40s?, seemed to be the 16 year old Juliet. Thought the same about Osipova in Giselle this week. High praise indeed.
  9. I have just found out that very sadly I won’t be able to use my ticket for Osipova / Giselle next Thursday, 4 November. D36 (end of row, front side amphi) £21. Please DM as well as post here if interested.
  10. What a nice thing to say Lizbie1, how good you remember!
  11. Might I add a few words from the perspective of a copyright holder? My company owns the copyright in several hundred hours of archive television programming, some of which is valuable and may indeed become more valuable as the years roll on and people move from life into history: https://www.openmedia.co.uk The opinions of my colleagues on the subject of YouTube run across the spectrum, from digital anarchy ("there is no point in protecting anything, that is so 20th century") to the pragmatic ("if people steal our clips and spread them around, that's good advertising") to legalistic exactitude ("anyone who uses our IP without a licence is breaking the law"). I need to strike a fair balance in a world where almost everyone is getting accustomed to finding almost everything online within a few minutes of searching. We tend to ask YouTube to take down poor quality copies of our material which end up online, as we have come across a fair few media companies who sadly try and exploit our footage without our permission (footage they rip from YouTube). Whether we like it or not, we are bound by the contracts which govern this content, much of it produced in another era. But we have our own YouTube channel, continue to release clips on a regular basis for free and, if someone has a particular research interest, we try and help out with copies for a small fee, subject to various legal restrictions. Hope this helps provide a little context. I don't however pretend to speak for the BBC or other such large operations.
  12. Might I add a few words of Clement Crisp (from the wonderful new collection of his work)? Here is a short extract from his 13 August 2007 review of Don Quixote in the Financial Times: Let us not exaggerate, but six stars seem to be in order...Not since Plisetskaya and Maximova have we seen so adorable a Kitri, and never one so divinely destined to claim the role as her own. This Kitri can do no wrong.
  13. Dance as soft power - ie cultural diplomacy - is an unusual subject. This recent discussion - a series of short essays - of a book about Martha Graham from 2020 might be of interest: https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XXIII-6.pdf
  14. I am always grateful for the threads/posts tagged "Books". This thread hasn't got such a tag yet so might someone explain how I can do this (or does an admin have to add the tag)?
  15. Jonac, just to let you know that I sent you a PM (private message) on February 18. Having just checked the message box I see my note to you is marked “Not read yet”. You might like to have a look in your messages (the envelope icon on the top right of the screen).
  16. I watched this excellent film last night. It's as enjoyable and instructive to a beginner like me as it will be to experts.
  17. There has been some discussion here: https://slippedisc.com/2021/01/breaking-rattle-extends-with-london-while-signing-for-munich/ https://slippedisc.com/2021/01/is-brexit-the-reason-for-rattles-move-to-munich/ https://slippedisc.com/2021/01/after-rattle-where-does-the-lso-turn/
  18. With apologies for the late notice, here are details of a talk at 12.30pm today which might be of interest. https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/online-addressing-images-niall-billings?dm_i=AHZ,77B12,ML3UKL,T6NJ7,1
  19. The great cellist was also no mean conductor, if that's what you mean Alison: https://youtu.be/UA2R2QR19Bs
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