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  1. ninamargaret
    I often wonder why some people bother to attend. If she was watching Onegin she couldn't have seen anyone who could be described as 'awful'.
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    Don't care - I love the whole ballet warts and all! I think the opera tells the story better, but for me the ballet hits the right spot every time.
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    I really hope we shan't have to wait for too long for another run of Onegin. Reading the reviews on the forum, and from my own visit, it seems that it is a ballet perfectly suited to the current RB company, with the various casts all able to bring something of their own characterisation to their roles. And it does, of course, need a strong corps, which we certainly have at the moment. Good to see that it has been pretty much sold out - May augur well for a speedy return?
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    I managed to get a reasonably priced seat during the last run and would like to have seen it again. But the ticket prices make it prohibitive. Which leads ballet is expensive enough, opera has become a no go area. Tristan and Elektra, both of which I would like to see, are just impossible, unless you can manage amphi tickets, which I can't.
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    it's criminal that no recording has been made of this run of performances - preferably this cast.
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    Bonelli must not be allowed to retire! He is, I think, the best actor around, and a superb partner. He and Naghdi were so beautiful together - I've seen the ballet many times but this performance was the most moving i have seen since Haydee/ Cragun. Naghdi's portrayal of Tatiana is totally right, hard to believe it was her debut. And her emotion at the curtain call was perfectly understandable.. I also enjoyed O'Sullivan and Sissens. The latter seems to thoroughly enjoy being on stage and has the makings of a fine Lensky. On the way out i spoke to a man whose very first ballet performance it was. Delighted to say he was smitten! I warned him that it was addictive!
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    Maybe my problem is that while I generally enjoy the choreography i don't enjoy the staging of his works, which I find distracting. I totally understand that it's his concept of how a work should look, but I find it difficult to concentrate on the dance when there is so much going on. Having said that, I am looking forward to seeing it, but with the aforesaid trepidation for the health of my eardrums!
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    i know I'm old fashioned, but I want to watch dance/ballet. I do not want to watch a collection of projections, a lighting display, over loud music, orunflattering costumes. Even Woolf Works, which I enjoyed, could, to my mind, have been improved by removing some of the more extreme elements. I have booked for Dante, but like other posters, am already feeling some trepidation.
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    I'm afraid this is the norm for many performances. I have mobility problems and find it difficult,to stand for more than a short while and have,frequently given up waiting while some willowy young ladies queue up in front of me.
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    No such luck! Tickets were impossible to get - I tried and failed dismally.
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    Perhaps we should revert to the old days when programmes carried a note asking ladies to remove their hats! Another note at the same time advertised that tea trays could be ordered and brought to patrons in their seats. Just imagine what fun that would be if the practice restarted! Unfortunately I can remember the delicate clink of teacups throughout the theatre. Think what fun that would be at the ROH!
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    don't tell me about it! I had to return my ticket because I have the mother and father of all coughs because of a chest infection and couldn't inflict this on the audience. So I've missed out on Coppelia.
  13. ninamargaret
    After a gap of many years I returned to ballet at the ROH just in time to see Cojocaru/Kobborg in,Sylphide- - and Mayerling - definitely highlights. Ferri/Bonelli in Marguerite,and Armand. The Winters Tale,with Watson, thankfully on DVD. The superb triple bill of Firebird, Month in the Country, Symphony in C, also the triple with Patineurs. Seeing all four casts of Mayerling during the previous,run and being fascinated that each Watson, Bonelli, McCrae and Soares bought something different and personal,to the,role. James Hay as Lescaut. The MacMillan celebrations with RB, BRB Scottish ballet etc. Lows are Twyla Tharp, McGregor ( WW excluded), Bernstein triple, any ballet that employs extravagant sets, lighting, projections,etc that I find distract me from the dance, which is what I pay to see. (Already getting nervous about the Dante Project)
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    I watched Le Corsaire from the Vienna State Opera last night and was amused to note that there were no flowers presented on stage, but two or three bunches were thrown from the audience, but only to male members of the cast.
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    I missed some parts which I enjoy in performance but which were omitted in the film but that is inevitable. For me, the stand out performance was from Matthew Ball, and of course James Hay is,always worth seeing. It's a good looking film and I enjoyed it but still prefer a 'performance' dvd
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    a visiting friend, whose only ballet visit has been to a Matthew Bourne ballet, watched it and was entranced! I think it was probably intended for audiences who go infrequently, not for hardened specimens like readers of this foum!
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    There appears to be no mention of this, or the other recipients of honours, in the ROH website. Or is there a delay because of the holiday?
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    Yes, and I saw a brilliant captain Belaye danced by Alexander Grant!
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    my two favourite Manon performances - Morera/Bonelli and Hayward/Campbell. But don't ask me to coose! Another contender must be Anna Rose O'Sullivan's SB.
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    wouldn't it have been good for ballet if some mention had been made in the BBC? Hope there's more interest in Birmingham.
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    The triple of Patineurs, Winter Dreams and The Concert shown last year was a real Christmas treat - would happily see it again. And suitable for both adults and older children.
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    Thank you to our marvellous moderators who look after the forum so well and manage to keep tempers on a pretty even keel! It's lovely to be able to exchange views and opinions and have friendly disagreements with other people and, speaking as an older ballet goer, to find there are others out there who also have similar memories. And,well balanced by those lucky ones just getting interested and who have different views. Happy Christmas to all and a good ballet going 2020.
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    i totally understand Jan being reduced to mush in Enigma - I react in the same way and did on Wedneday afternoon.Don't know what it is, if it's Elgar, Ashton, Ashton 's portrayal of the Elgar/Alice relationship or what. nothing to do with the cast, excellent though they were, it's always affected me from the very early performances that i saw.And who wouldn't have fallen for Jean de Brienne as danced by Bonelli! it's just that lovely relaxed style of his with good partnering that I love.
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    A friend who used to run an excellent cattery could usually manage to pill a cat by firmly wrapping it in a towel and then getting her husband to hold the cat in a sort of,rugby tackle while she got the pill down. But if it's any consolation, my current cat recently resisted attempts by the vet and the,vet nurse to get a nice tasting worming pill down him. Some cats are really impossible to pill.
  25. ninamargaret
    Wouldn't recommend centre stalls circle Row A. I was just a couple of seats away from centre and there were two very tall lads in the back row of the Orchestra Stalls. My view was somewhat obscured. I am short, so that is partially the problem, but can't do much about it! A good compromise are the seats at the beginning of the side stalls circle.
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