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  1. Dawnstar
    All I'm getting now for Events is a totally blank page apart from "Timed out while waiting on cache-lcy19243-LCY" whatever the heck that means. I've tweeted the ROH. I don't remember it being this bad for years, if ever. The last few bookings have been really straightforward, in & out in a few minutes.
  2. Dawnstar
    I tried closing my browser & re-opening and now I can't even get beyond the home page. Although I suppose if everyone else is getting the same problem then I can desparately hope that there may still be tickets left when it finally works.
  3. Dawnstar
    I'm having the same problem. I'm either getting production-specific pages with no booking option on or just Service Error pages. I managed to grab one R&J ticket at 9.01am then everything went strange.
  4. Dawnstar
    I felt that at times the music wasn't dramatic enough for the choreography and the emotions that the dancers were conveying.
  5. Dawnstar
    Thank you. I knew it was something I should have been able to recognise!
  6. Dawnstar
    What an interesting film. Can anyone say where the music used as background in the first couple of minutes is from? I recognise it but can't place it.
  7. Dawnstar
    I've just watched this - just in time! I've never seen the ballet before but I've seen half a dozen productions of the opera so it's very interesting to see how the ballet differs. I didn't think the music was as good as that of the opera. It's nice to see some of the same dancers as in the Romeo and Juliet and lucky Germany to have had 2 ballets on TV over Christmas!
  8. Dawnstar
    It's a pity that the partnership with the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse seems to have been so short-lived.
  9. Dawnstar
    I've just watched this & it worked absolutely fine. I thought it was very good.
  10. Dawnstar
    ETO has never been lost from Cambridge. The spring tour has been at the Arts Theatre every year. It's only the autumn tour that has moved from West Road to Saffron Hall. Given the very limited backstage facilities at West Road I can understand why they chose to move. (Sorry, veering off-topic here.)
  11. Dawnstar
    I didn't realised that the BRB toured to the Bristol Hippodrome. I thought it was one of ENB's tour stops. I'm now wondering if the Romeo & Juliet I saw there in 2006, which I thought was ENB, was actually BRB.
  12. Dawnstar
    Same here! For balance, I should say that I loved his production of L'Ormindo at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. It's funny how, out of 2 productions by the same director, one can be probably my second favourite production of a baroque opera in 15 years of operagoing & other one of my least favourite productions of anything!
  13. Dawnstar
    I have zero technical knowledge of ballet so I was going entirely by any visible wobbles as I don't know what the correct arm & leg angles should be. Perhaps the close-ups weren't flattering in that respect or my expectations of perfection were unrealistic. I was actually surprised there were so many close-up shots as it differentiated the dancers rather than having them appear as an identical group, which I thought was the point of the scene.
  14. Dawnstar
    Hmm, I still don't think I'll be rushing to see it again! I regret they got rid of the previous production, which I did like.
  15. Dawnstar
    I had assumed that the ROH paired Asphodel Meadows with Two Pigeons, and put the former first, on the same principle that the Proms programme new music in the first half of concerts with something well-known in the second half: it makes the audience sit through the new work before they can get what they really want to see/hear! Or is modern ballet more popular than modern music?
  16. Dawnstar
    £95 for the front amphi for ballet? Ouch! I haven't even been going to the ROH for that long, only 15 years, and even I can remember when the front amphi was "only" £50-ish for opera. As @Sim has said upthread, I'll certainly be saving my money for the Royal Opera & Ballet instead.
  17. Dawnstar
    I'm afraid that I'm not prepared to spend time or (quite a lot of, given it's the ROH) money on seeing a production that I very much doubt would be to my taste. I saw OHP's production in 2016 and even in that mercifully straightforward production, and with several singers I like in the cast, I wasn't that keen on the piece itself so don't feel the need to see it again unless it gets done with singers I like in a reasonable production in the future. I saw the original run in 2013. I'm glad to hear that it was improved subsequently. I hope that the improvements included banishing those extremely irritating dancing doubles!
  18. Dawnstar
    I meant that I found aspects of the production design were old-fashioned, not the style of the dancing. I was particularly thinking of the group of dancers appearing in blackface. I said I found it disconcerting, not disturbing i.e. it's not something I've heard before (as I stated, this is the first Bolshoi livestream I've watched) so I was suprised to hear it. However I did also find it disturbing in as far as it interrupted the music. I'm glad that it went out of fashion in London, presumably at some point before the early 90s when I first saw ballet. I am likewise glad that the habit of opera singers bowing after arias had largely died out in this country before I started operagoing.
  19. Dawnstar
    Yes. Pretty much everyone other than Nikiya did a curtain call at the end of Act 2.
  20. Dawnstar
    I hadn't realised there was supposed to be a distinction. They all seemed to be behaving in the same sort of way!
  21. Dawnstar
    I disliked both the lurid shades of net and the shape of those that had puffball skirts. The ones with the full below-knee skirts looked much better. I couldn't see any particular reason for having two different shapes of skirt either.
  22. Dawnstar
    Frim some of the comments here I'm thinking that it may be a good thing that I haven't seen the RB's production, so I didn't have anything to compare ENB's to, as some people seem to have found the latter lacking in comparison with the former. Though even without anything to compare them with I still thought the Act 2 courtesans' costume were rather ghastly!
  23. Dawnstar
    I never thought of that link when reading the QoS reviews. Possibly because I hated that Onegin production so much that I try not to remember it! It's probably a good thing that I haven't booked for QoS as I suspect I'd have a similar reaction.
  24. Dawnstar
    Thanks. I'll give that a go next time & hope they stay Liked!
  25. Dawnstar
    I had no idea until I got round to reading some of the Manon programme this morning that ENB hadn't done it for 10 years. I had assumed that they revived it maybe every 2-3 years. The entire company seemed so at home in the piece - although I guess it helped that the 2 performances I saw were in the final week of the run. I am now thinking how lucky I am that they should happen to revive it just after I was deeply impressed & moved by my first Mayerling and was looking to see more MacMillan. Perfect timing for me to then be blown away by Manon too! (I'm now viewing the Forum on my laptop & it seems that all the Likes I've given to posts in the last 2 pages when I was viewing them on my phone are now not showing up. I've gone through and Liked them again so apologies if people are getting notifications twice over or Likes are vanishing. Basically I have one big Like for this whole thread!)
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