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  1. Dawnstar
    And I'm annoyed that I have no trains that weekend so can't make it either! I've been checking the website fairly frequently all day & haven't seen a single ticket for 8th appear, whereas there have been tickets for every other Manon performance, so either no one is returning them or they're being snapped up instantly.
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    I'm not surprised he's taken another job then! I'd lost hope that he was ever going to get Swan Lake but was surprised he wasn't cast in Winter's Tale & am even more surprised that he wasn't due to be cast in any of the Ashton works either. Quite apart from the artistic strangeness of not casting a dancer who would be suitable for several roles, some of which he has done before, I cannot see how the company can economically justify employing a dancer on a Principal's salary then not cast him in anything for months. If my maths are correct, that would mean he'd only been cast for 9 RB performances in the entire season. It seems a complete waste of both his time & talents and, for them, their money; and since the ROH have been going on since covid about how short of money they are then surely they should make the most of the salaries they are paying by giving all Principals (as long as they're not injured) a decent number of performances every season.
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    What is supposed to be new? Because I'm not getting anything new on the ROH website at the moment as far as I can find.
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    I would have been very tempted to lean over & ask if they could let me know the casting for Carmen!
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    If you don't get any takers then do you have any National Trust properties with secondhand bookshops near you who might take them? Last year I got about a dozen ballet books at the secondhand bookshop at one of my local NT properties, so perhaps the NT are more appreciative of older ballet books than your book dealer is.
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    Muntagirov was doing Month in the Country, wonderfully, with Morera in some performances & Scenes de Ballet with Lamb in other performances so probably too busy to do Rhapsody as well! Zuchetti is supposed to be dancing Lescaut on 2nd & 8th March so fingers crossed he has now recovered from injury & can do so.
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    I've realised that Campbell was the first dancer I saw live in a Royal Ballet performance*, because the first live RB ballet I saw was Mayerling & he was Bratfisch. By a rather depressing coincidence the first singer I ever heard at the ROH, Angelika Kirchschlager (Octavian in Rosenkavalier April 2004), also announced her retirement only a few weeks ago. As well as not seeing him live as Lescaut, the other thing I'm really kicking myself for now is never having seen him as the Prince in The Nutcracker. In the last couple of seasons I've been trying to catch dancers over 40 who probably wouldn't be performing for too many seasons more (Bonelli, Morera, currently Lamb) in as many roles as possible but didn't think there was any urgent need to do so yet in his case. Clearly I was wrong. (*Though I did see some Royal Ballet dancers in the Royal Opera's production of Acis & Galatea back in 2009.)
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    The MacMillan triple bill casting was only announced on 6th February so presumably Campbell wouldn't have been listed for Different Drummer if the RB had already known he would be leaving before the performances? Does anyone know if dancers have to usually have to give months of notice of leaving or would it contracturally be the single month's notice that is standard for many jobs, even though most give longer notice?
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    The ROH are pretty terrible at putting news on their website in recent years. Looking at the news pages right now, the last item was posted over a month ago & there are only 7 articles for the entirely of 2023. Also they never put cast changes in the news section now, which they used to. Nothing on the ROH Twitter about Campbell either so far so it seems to be only Instagram where they have announced it. Instagram having kicked me off, if it wasn't for this Forum I'd never know what was going on in the ballet world.
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    Gosh, that's a real shock to read. With so many dancers going on well into their 40s nowadays, I would have expected him to dance for several more years. (It's not as if he's had lots of injury problems like the similar-age McRae has either.) It feels very sudden, considering while he's not cast in the summer period ballets he was supposed to be in Different Drummer next month. I'm now really kicking myself for deciding that seeing him as Lescaut at the cinema was sufficient & not seeing him live in the role as well. I have been planning to get a rush ticket for 8th March ever since Hayward replacing Takada was announced but it's now going to be almost impossible to get one.
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    @Anna1805 A small number of seats at various prices have appeared on the ROH website for both 2nd March performances so if you see this comment in time you could see if any of those meet your requirements.
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    An update on the discussions about a week ago on tickets listed as available for the last 4 Manon performances but not showing up on the seat map: I see this evening that the number of tickets ennumeratued as available now looks to match up with the number of tickets actually available on the seat maps. So presumably the tickets being held have now been released for public booking. Now if only I had a spare £140 for the oh so tempting front row stalls seat currently available for 5th March....
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    This has just made me go through my curtain call photos for the Lescauts I saw in 2019 & so far in this run. Now my camera is not nearly as good as Rob's & tends to make colours look less bright than they really are but to my eyes it looks like Hirano (2019 & 2024), Sambe, Corrales & Zuchetti are all wearing waistcoats that are various shades of orange & it's only Acri (2019 & 2024) wearing a really red waistcoat (I've not seen Campbell live so don't have photos of him). Not something I've noticed before but I'll definitely be looking out for it for the rest of the run!
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    I'm surprised to read that. I thought it would be extremely expensive, given the blurb on the ROH website makes it sound like a large number of seats will be premium ones. Though it'll probably end up being irrelevent for me as I can't imagine there will be any reasonably-priced stalls circle tickets left by the time general booking opens.
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    How about moving it to ancient Greece or Rome? Then there could still be a temple with dancers, which you couldn't have in Medieval Europe, and there are plenty of earthquakes in the Mediterranean area for the destruction of the temple at the end.
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    Does Les Rendezvous have significantly-sized lead roles or is it more of an ensemble piece? When I looked it up on the ROH database there was a very long cast list so I'm guessing maybe it's more of an ensemble piece? If so then maybe it'd be sufficient for booking if the RB could just announce the leading pair for both Rhapsody & The Dream, especially given they are the two pieces appearing in both programmes so will cause more problems with people trying not to duplicate casts.
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    Does anyone know if Madame is supposed to be one of G.M.'s former mistresses? The possibility had occurred to me previously but I thought about it again on Wednesday when at one point in Act II as Avis's G.M. got up from the card table & walked past Arestis's Madame he put his hand on her shoulder in a rather caressing, intimate way. It seems I now have Manon stuck in my subconscious as well as my conscious mind. I dozed off this afternoon & dreamed that I was at the ROH & an older man was trying to make me accept a red dress in a Harrods bag! Unlike Manon I was sensible enough to turn him down & walk off! (In real life if any man tried to give me anything I'd suggest he got his eyes tested & went for someone much prettier than me!)
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    I wonder if that means that they have selected the casts but have not finalised which casts are dancing on which dates or that they are still potentially changing the actual dancers cast? It feels like the former possibility would hopefully be resolved & casting published earlier than if it's the latter option. Especially as, unlike all the other major works this season, the Ashton triple bill isn't being cinecast so people don't have the option of seeing a local screening but have to go to the ROH if they want to see it. (One of my mother's friends who has been seeing the cinema screenings for over a decade but has never been to the ROH in person is thinking of making her first visit for the Ashton triple bill.)
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    Ball's starting to make a habit of February Sleeping Beauty jump-ins: this is the second year in a row! I suppose BRB might be running a bit short of male Principals right now, with Morales leaving during the run. I wonder what they will do for the rest of the run, given Ball's RB committments presumably won't allow him to do all the other venues Bello was due to do. Incidentally, while looking at the BRB casting just now to see how many other venues Bello was due to dance at, I see that Samara Downs has been replaced by Sofia Linares, which I haven't seen mentioned on here.
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    Thank you for the confirmation. I enjoyed it at the time (though unfortunately it has been somewhat tarnished in hindsight by both the lead dancers I saw subsequently being in the press for unfortunate reasons) so I am hoping ENB will revive it again at some point.
  21. Dawnstar
    That must have been very nerve-wracking. I hope it didn't injure you.
  22. Dawnstar
    I know it definitely wasn't Ashton. Actually it possibly being the Nureyev one does vaguely ring a bell. Unfortunately I didn't get a programme at the time.
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    I would definitely be very interested in seeing Ashton's R&J. Would Deane's have been the production ENB were doing in the mid-2000s? I saw an ENB R&J in Bristol in somewhere around 2004 or 2005 which I unfortunately don't remember in much detail.
  24. Dawnstar
    @alison Railing collapsed?! If by restricted view seat you mean stalls circle C22 then having sat there once for a Swan Lake it was a bit like watching a tennis match, constantly looking from side to side to try to look round the pillar!
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    I agree. I was under the impression that the Festival of New Choreography works were all being performed in the Linbury so I didn't even consider looking at ticket availability because the Linbury almost always sells out so quickly. If I had known in advance that it was on in the main auditorium I have decided not to go anyway, since the part of the Junker piece shown on World Ballet Day did not appeal to me at all, but I would have at least considered it. It's good to see from @Rob S photos that the dancers are in pointe shoes for 3 of the 4 pieces.
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