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  1. Dawnstar
    This reminds me of when I was at the ROH a few years ago seeing the McVicar Nozze Di Figaro production & 2 audience members near me were discussing the same director's Faust. One of them said "It was like a musical", with the tone of voice implying there could be no greater insult! As someone who enjoys both opera and musicals I was amused at the time (though I do sometimes feel guilty that I enjoy "lower" as well as "higher" brow forms of theatre, but that's another discussion).
  2. Dawnstar
    Also the credits were so fast that it was impossible to read most names. I spent much of Acts 1 & 3 trying to work out who was dancing the smaller roles but couldn't identify many dancers so I was looking forward seeing to the credits, only to then not be able to read them.
  3. Dawnstar
    Oh good! Anyway, I've just booked - for the first night, which has what looks like the most appealing cast line-up - so thank you everyone who advised.
  4. Dawnstar
    I'm very interested to read the various comments praising Lamb/Muntagirov as a partnership. I'm currently trying to decide which couple to try to book for when Romeo & Juliet goes on sale and, after Winter Dreams, I am very much inclining towards Lamb/Muntagirov so it's good to see that people consider them to be a very good pairing. Although if they have so many fans then getting a ticket may be difficult! Oh and I'm afraid I can't do a top 5 as I've only seen 5 ballets this year (counting the recent Triple Bill as one), between live & cinecast, so they'd inherently all have to be listed!
  5. Dawnstar
    Well, I enjoy some ballet but I've never seen anything by a living choreographer apart from the Winter's Tale cinecast, which of course is narrative, so I'm decidedly apprehensive about something that is both modern and non-narrative. I did watch the Infra insight evening livestreaming recently & didn't like that style of choreography at all so I'm hoping that Scarlett does not share too many choreographic traits with McGregor.
  6. Dawnstar
    Thanks for the replies. They sound fairly reassuring. I gather that it's fairly short too, so if I hated it at least it wouldn't be for long!
  7. Dawnstar
    May I ask if Asphodel Meadows is very difficult to watch? After really enjoying the Triple Bill on Thursday I am now eyeing up the Asphodel Meadows/Two Pigeons double bill. The latter sounds like it's the sort of piece I might enjoy, having looked up the plot, but Googling the former indicates that it doesn't have a plot. As someone who isn't very keen on non-narrative dancing, I'm wondering if it's worth "suffering" Asphodel Meadows for the sake of seeing Two Pigeons?
  8. Dawnstar
    I already wear glasses as I'm very short sighted.
  9. Dawnstar
    I did try looking them up on the ROH website but still couldn't identify everyone, especially the men. Maybe I can blame The Concert's costumes: I didn't realise which one was Kristen McNally until the curtain call whereas I'd identified her easily in Winter Dreams.
  10. Dawnstar
    Thank you. I'm guessing it must take dozens if not hundreds of RB viewings to be able to identify all the dancers like that.
  11. Dawnstar
    As of a couple of minutes ago the ROH website was showing 3 tickets available for 2nd January so there's evidently the odd return trickling in.
  12. Dawnstar
    Thank you very much. I will attempt to remember who's who in the future, though I suspect I won't manage to remember them all. Could I be cheeky & also ask who's who in The Concert photo Rob S posted?
  13. Dawnstar
    Thanks. I don't really know what anyone at Artist/First Artist level looks like, and only some of the Soloists/First Soloists. I could barely identify anyone in The Concert, beyond Cutherbertson, Kish & Morera.
  14. Dawnstar
    Am I correct in identifying the dancer second from the right in this photo as Gina Storm-Jensen? She caught my eye the most out of the 4 chocolate-and-blue couples last night.
  15. Dawnstar
    I can't imagine how Avis & Turk can manage to dance 2 different roles in the same ballet on the same day. Dancers must have such excellent memories. I'm sure if it were me I'd get totally muddled between roles! Query for the RB experts: is it normal for a principal to dance only character roles, as Kish appears to be doing this season?
  16. Dawnstar
    I don't have the knowledge compared to everyone else on here to make any specific comments on tonight's performance so I'll just say that I thoroughly enjoyed Les Patineurs & The Concert (I didn't know ballet encompassed surrealist farce!) and found Winter Dreams interesting & gently melancholic. I thought all the dancers were excellent and was particularly pleased to see Muntagirov, Naghdi & Cuthbertson live for the first time and Lamb & Avis for the second time. PS One specific comment about Winter Dreams: I loved Whitehead's pas du chair!
  17. Dawnstar
    Even in a theatre the size of the Birmingham Hippodrome (assuming you were seeing BRB there) you'd think that would be noticeable! Veering off topic, I remember Sandra Madgwick as Clara in BRB's Nutcracker when it was televised in about 1994.
  18. Dawnstar
    I don't see how it would help to have performances already filmed with different casts though. I think the audiences just might notice if it was suddenly a different Romeo & Juliet being shown, especially with the cinema close-ups.
  19. Dawnstar
    Apologies if this is the wrong thread but it's sort of related to spring casting. Does anyone know why multiple performances of Romeo & Juliet are listed as having filming? Usually for cinecast productions there seems to be 2 performances filmed, both with the same cast. Here https://www.roh.org.uk/productions/romeo-and-juliet-by-kenneth-macmillan no fewer than 6 performances are listed as having filming, covering 5 different leading couples with Ball & Naghdi only being filmed once.
  20. Dawnstar
    The ROH website has finally now got the running times up.
  21. Dawnstar
    Yes, it was. I must have seen it in its last year, as I would have been too young before, so my confusion may have partly been because I was only 6 and a half in 1991 but my mother also remembers it as confusing so I don't think it was just due to my age.
  22. Dawnstar
    I'm starting to wonder if someone at the RO dislikes Tchaikovsky, as we've already suffered Holten's awful (IMO) Eugene Onegin & now this Queen of Spades. If the director thinks he's being original by putting Tchaikovsky on stage then he isn't, as about 25 years ago I saw a very confusing Nutcracker production where most of the characters at the party were turned into members of the Tchaikovsky family.
  23. Dawnstar
    I've just had that too. I'm wondering why we've had an email for this cast change but didn't get one for Sambe replacing Hay, especially given Hans-Peter has more stage time than the Prince!
  24. Dawnstar
    This is a brilliant post, FLOSS. I've only been operagoing at the ROH for 14 years, not long compared to many on here, but even in that time the productions in the last few years seem to be noticeably less appealing, with this season particularly bad. Up until this season I had not seen the Royal Ballet live because by the time I'd paid for seeing several operas a year (SC restricted view but still £50+ per ticket) I didn't feel I could justify ballet too. This season there are so few operas I want to see (thus far only Simon Boccanegra, which is a longstanding & traditional production, & nothing else till April) that I've finally got round to seeing the RB! At least with the RB productions if you book for a "traditional" ballet then you seem pretty safe in getting a production which is comprehensible & attractive, which cannot be said for an awful lot of the recent opera productions.
  25. Dawnstar
    Yes, Bonelli is still being listed in Nutcracker. I have a ticket for 9th January & have been checking the ROH website for that performance almost every day for weeks, since it was announced that he was going to be on sabbatical, but there's still no change, even though Sambe has replaced Hay in the interim. I'm not sure whether I should be hoping that Bonelli may turn up after all or if it definitely is just incompetance in not changing his name to TBC.
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