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  1. Dawnstar
    O'Sullivan & Takada danced Alice in the last run so will presumably be cast this time too if both have recovered from their current injuries. Choe danced the role in each of the previous runs but will presumably still be on maternity leave, given the run will evidently be early in the season (I doubt it'll get a split run as that only seems to be for the most popular ballets). The only other past Alice I can find listed is Stix-Brunnell.
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    Unfortunately far from getting used to it I'm the other way round. The ending is irritating me a lot more this time around than during the last run because in the meantime I've seen ENB's production, whose ending (once I got over my initial surprise at Siegfried foillowing Odette off the rock) I much preferred. I liked the Siegfrieds that did that in the last run. At least it seemed as though he'd been knocked out by Von Rothbart with major force so there was a good reason why he was lying there for ages. When he just collapses gently to the floor at a mere wave of Von Rothbart's wing & lies there for ages I unfortunately feel it makes him look pretty pathetic. Gosh, that had never occurred to me. I just thought they were waking him up to tell him it's all over & he needs to go & fish Odette's dead body out of the lake!
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    I've just spotted that the ROH website has been changed in the last hour or so to show a complete cast swap for tonight's Different Drummer with Sambe, Hayward & Serrano replacing Ospiova, Clarke & Donnelly.
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    I'e only seen Alice on video so I do want to see it live but I think once or twice is likely to be sufficient, unless there's lots of extremely tempting casting. There were some scenes that I did not enjoy, and that's the actual content so I won't enjoy them any more live, especially the Duchess, Cook & sausages which I could hardly bear to watch. I wasn't keen on the Mad Hatter's tea pary either, which seems to be a highlight for many people. I wonder if Cinderella is likely to have a Nutcrackeresque number of performances? If so then I suppose there could be quite a lot of new casts so that might make me want to see more performances. Otherwise then, as I saw 6 casts in 2022, I hope to be able to save some money! Sleeping Beauty overlapped with Coppelia in 2019/20 so perhaps it's that you're thinking of rather than the Nutcracker?
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    @Emeralds Thanks but I don't think I want the stress of spending the next 5 days checking for returns when the odds are extremely low, given there are under 20 tickets in the entire auditorium that I'm both prepared to sit in & can afford for SL! I think I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed that Donnelly, and Braendesrod for that matter, appear in more than one SL cast.
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    I hope Onegin and R&J aren't in too close proximity, and certainly not overlapping, as they are highly likely to be the 2 pieces I will want to see the most casts for.
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    I realise that but the Friday rush for 18th already happened today & it's highly unlikely a suitable return will appear, while 27th matinee isn't a convenient date/time for me. Also given how high the SL ticket prices are I can't keep on buying extra tickets that I haven't budgeted for. (I already added one extra performance last month when Kaneko replaced Cuthbertson.) If fuller casting had been known before the start of the run then I could have had an overall rethink of which casts to prioritise seeing.
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    Thanks. It's useful for knowing approximately when in the season each of them will be on. Interesting to see they're reviving the new Carmen immediately, especially considering there are a lot of performance this season & the latter part of the run currently has quite a lot of the more expensive tickets still available.
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    Grrrr, I know I've said this before but why oh why can't the ROH give advanced casting for Von Rothbart & Benno? I would have seriously considered trying to get a ticket for this performance if I'd known Donnelly would be making his debut. As it is, I won't get to see him unless I luck in & he ends up appearing with another cast who I will be seeing. It's also almost certainly killed off my hope that he might get to do Benno, as I very much doubt anyone will get cast as Von Rothbart & Benno. So far the new Von Rothbarts are the same as the new Gaolers so I wonder if Edmonds might do Von Rothbart too or whether his casting as Siegfried will excuse him?
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    @LinMM Ella Newton Severigni danced the Neopolitan in Swan Lake on 1st April, which I believe was her debut in that role. So she's starting to get featured roles. Given she looks to be one of the smaller dancers perhaps she'll get to do a Cygnet at some point in the run as well. ETA Obviously she didn't get a cutain call for the Neopolitan but I think she is the swan in the background of this photo, if I've got my swan identification right as I do find dancers tend to look rather similar under those feathers.
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    For me Zuchetti looked rather like Joshua Junker when under that headdress, though I did realise who it actually was. During my first viewing of Danses Concertantes on 27th I was under the impression Nadia Mullova-Barley was Annette Buvoli until I checked the cast list again in the interval but then they are two dancers who I have a tendency to misidentify as each other on occasion even without the Danses Concertantes headdresses.
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    @Emeralds I did not mean that the Lead Principals should not be Lead Principals; I just find it interesting that there are currently no Principals. I'm rather surprised that Haw didn't join the company at Principal/Lead Principal level given he's dancing the lead role in everything apart from Carmen this season.
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    Though given ENB currently does not have any Principals, only Lead Principals, then it feels like their Lead Principal category is at the present time effectively the equivalent of Principal at other companies. It will be interesting to see whether the next time any First Soloists get promoted the Principal category reappears or if they will go straight to Lead Principal. (Also given there are only 2 male Lead Principals it's hardly surprising that they are dancing all the leading roles!)
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    Are there any high-level professional dancer competitions though? I'm not aware that there's a ballet equivalent of Cardiff Singer of the World for instance. Hence my saying I don't know of any more prestigious ballet competition than the Prix de Lausanne. That would depend on the individual dancer. If it was someone who I'd seen in smaller roles and based on those I liked him and thought he was ready to dance leading roles then yes, I would. I can't give any RB examples because since I started following the company closely in 2018 there haven't been any dancers who have had metioric rises through the ranks to dance leading roles at a young age. However if I may give an example from another company then I was extremely impressed by Giorgi Potskishvili, graduated 2020, as Hilarion in Dutch National Ballet's recent Giselle cinecast and were the company to visit London, or were he to guest with the RB or ENB, then I would absolutely be booking to see him in any leading role he were to appear in.
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    Is it that encouraging compared to Antonio Casalhino from the following year who's already a First Soloist in Munich & Darrion Sellman from 2 years later already dancing Siegfried? The only Siegfried debutant in the RB's current SL, Sissens, is in his eight year with the company so if Masciari were to make similar progress, & the RB continue to do SL every other year, then he just might get to do Siegfried in 2 or 3 revivals time! I don't know much about the Prix de Lausanne but I gather it's one of if not the most prestigious ballet competition so I'm guessing that those winning are hoping to become Principals or similar. Is being a bigger fish in a smaller ballet company better than being a small fish in the RB? I don't know, I'm just musing out loud.
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    I'm rather surprised to see the company is coming to my local theatre, as it's uncommon for ballet companies to do so. Now I don't know whether to see the programme there, which will be cheaper, or to go to Sadler's Wells, which will cost more but has the inducements of a much larger stage & added Cojocaru.
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    I hope it's alright to ask this - if it's not I'm sure someone will tell me quickly enough. Is there really much incentive at the moment for Prix de Lausanne competition winners to choose the Royal Ballet? The likelihood of anyone getting to dance even featured solos within not only their Prix de Lausanne dancer year but, were they to continue with the company, their first 2-3 years seems to be pretty low (I can't recall this season's RB Prix de Lausanne dancer even having any featured moments in the corps let alone any sort of proper solo role). Whereas at other companies there seem to be far more opportunities to dance major roles not that long after joining.
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    Given ENO's seasons are getting ever shorter, and musicians' contracts ditto, the orchestra are probably happy to have a couple of weeks of extra work this summer.
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    Isn't the RB's Giselle also Wright's production? Or has he done more than one version?
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    @Lucy M I'm glad you found the view reasonable, and my description fairly accurate. Yes, unfortunately leaners are an occupational hazard on the stalls circle benches.
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    I meant symmetrical in terms of the overall horseshoe shape rather than all the features being symmetrical. Though I'm pretty sure the pillars that affect the row C stalls circle bench seats are symmetrical at any rate. I don't have enough experience of the other stalls circle pillars to be certain of those. One significant bit of asymmetry is the extra door on the far left side so stalls circle left benches are definitely the side to go for if you need to make a speedy exit. @Lucy M How did you end up finding the view?
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    I've just checked the ROH Flickr account to see if they had posted any production pics for the new Carmen that opens tonight. They haven't but what they have posted since I last checked a few days ago is production pics for the Swan Lake so I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone wants to look at them. Unfortunately none of the photos have any casting details in the captions but the cast looks to be that of the Friends rehearsal as it's Sasaki & Sissens. https://www.flickr.com/photos/royaloperahouse/albums/72177720315894446/with/53626107437
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    Having now gone through my photos, I can safely say that as expected most of them are not good, and that's after I deleted the 50% that were totally out of focus. Several of the Different Drummer ones looked like those ones ENB published of their Giselle that deliberately had massive blurring, except in my case it wasn't deliberate! Requiem was not helped by the couple next to me who kept on thinking the curtain calls were finished, got up to get ready to go, blocking my view, then realised the curtain calls were continuing & sat down again. So here are a handful that actually turned out okayish & don't duplicate your much better ones. (Moderators: I hope that's okay but if it's too much of a duplication then please feel free to delete.) It's nice to see non-Principal dancers who don't get flowers that often getting some. I would guess it means a bit more to them than to the Principals who are used to getting bouquets at every performance. I think someone on here, though I can't now find who, said that Sambe looked quite emotional at his curtain call & I agree. He looks more like someone who's just finished Manon or Mayerling than a one-acter. It's at this point that I'm glad modern photos are digital & don't have to be sent off to be developed because 2 loincloth-clad chaps within 2 batches of photos might take a bit of explaining!
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    Thanks for the info. No, I don't want to go to 2 performances when it would be 2 nights running. It looks like I would have to pay for a pricier ticket as the price for an equivalent front stalls ticket appear to have gone up by £10 since I booked. I don't want to return my ticket, just potentially to exchange it. I don't think I've ever seen Kurihara dance though I did see Mizutani alongside Monaghan in Don Q. So it would be an easy decision if Mizutani & Monaghan were paired together this time but as it is I have to choose between a Prince I really like with an Aurora I've not seen compared to an Aurora I like with a Prince I've only seen in one or two smaller roles. Hmmm.....
  25. Dawnstar
    My trains actually ran perfectly yesterday for once, the one home even getting in a couple of minutes early. Maybe I need them to have overtime bans more often! 😉
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