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  1. Dawnstar
    WNO did a staged Jeptha in the 2000s which I found rather shattering. What is musically a if not quite happy ending at least a resigned-to-God's-will one was made considerably more depressing. Of course a different production might do it differently but I decided I didn't want to see it again.
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    Isn't it Khaniukova & Frola this evening? Or has there been a cast change that I've missed? I hope not, given I forked out for another ticket solely to try for a second time to see them, particularly Frola, in T&V.
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    I'd say L'elisir d'amore would be the nearest in tone to La Fille Mal Gardee out of the ROH's current offerings. Young woman deciding between two suitors with a nice happy ending. The ROH production isn't precisely traditional but it's straightforward & reasonably attractive. (I was going to see it again next week, having seen it in 3 previous runs, but with the train & tube strikes I think I may have to see the cinecast instead.) If L'elisir is too short notice then my next pick out of what's coming up in the next few months is Cav & Pag. However they are both tragedies. In fact looking at what the ROH is doing this season there's a distinct dearth of comedies.
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    @Emeralds Yes, as far as I can tell they are identical to the cast sheets pinned up at the theatre. There is a link to the page from the main Our Voices page but it's at the end of the initial blurb rather than with the casting info section so is probably easy to overlook. (I've just spent rather a lot of time in the last few weeks repeatedly checking the page first for casting info & then for any cast changes so when a new line appeared it stuck out for me!)
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    @alison Yes, they're on ENB's website. https://www.ballet.org.uk/blog-detail/daily-performance-casting-voices/ After the various cast changes on Saturday it's good to see there don't seem to have been any tonight. I hope that will be the same tomorrow night, when I'll be making my second attempt to see Themes & Variations.
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    I had wondered whether, after his Stepsister last season, he might do Sancho Panza, given that role's usually done by shorter dancers. Gamache did not cross my mind though.
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    I've just read the Seen & Heard review in today's Links and was quite surprised to read this: From where I was sitting, First Circle A2, I never saw Madeleine Pierard until she bowed at the end & had assumed that she was stationed in the orchestra pit. Presumably she was instead standing on the very far right of the stage from the audience point of view?
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    I did think that she might have committed suicide but it seemed an oddly muted way to do it. I glanced over at the choir & looked back to find she'd just vanished. Maybea Tosca-esque throwing herself off the back of the rocks would have made more of an impact! I had seen when I printed my ticket out that there was a post-performance talk mentioned on there but as there was no announcement at the end I wasn't sure if it was still on or not. As I wasn't exactly in the best mood, after missing the Balanchine, when I found at the end that if I really hurried I could just catch an earlier train I decided to do that rather than wait to see if the talk was or wasn't happening.
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    I don't know anything about Dawson & the critics. In fact I'd never heard of Dawson, as far as I can recall, until the announcement of the ENB triple bill programming a few months ago, let alone seen anything by him. I quoted that line from the Evening Standard because it summed up how I personally (with no Dawson "history") felt about the choreography.
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    All 3 train routes - Kings Cross, St Pancras & Liverpool Street - are currently showing as running. Though I would suspect that if anything does get cut due to lack of drivers then the Brighton route might be the first to go, given trains on that route seem to get cancelled the most under normal conditions. I was very relieved when I went down to Chichester at the end of August that the trains I needed to/from Three Bridges did run.
  11. Dawnstar
    More cast changes from ENB.
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    @LinMM There are London-Cambridge trains showing as running on the overtime ban days at the moment, though there's a caveat notice about possible last-minute cancellations so whether they will be actually running when the time comes who knows!
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    Thanks for that @annamk. I think I understood about half of that last night. I certainly didn't realise that the priest didn't want to kill the second Chosen One. Does that mean that he persuaded the Brother to take her place? When watching I thought that the Brother was defying the priest by getting in the way of the sacrifice at the last minute & being killed instead. I've just read through all the reviews in today's links and these two comments about the Dawson piece stood out for me. Telegraph While watching last night's performance I found myself wishing MacMillan had had a go at choreographing to the either VLL or various other of my favourite Strauss pieces. Evening Standard
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    I think I'm probably quite a bit younger than you @capybara (I hope that doesn't sound rude) but I would definitely like to see The Rake's Progress & Job, plus other de Valois works such as Checkmate & The Gods Go A-Begging. I'm not sure about Les Noces but I'd like to see Le Train Bleu & Les Biches. I might not enjoy all/any of these works but unless we can see them then how will I, or anyone else either too young or too lately come to ballet watching to have seen them, know if we like them & want to see them continue to be performed or not?
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    Thanks for the suggestion. Though I am still confused because I thought the sacrifice was done by the victim being enveloped in the large black cloth. If that's not the case then what happened near the end when what I thought happened was the Brother took the place of the second Chosen One & was sacrificed? Maybe I just shouldn't try to make sense of the piece! Also ENB tweeted a cast update a few minutes ago.
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    @LinMM Ironically I actually got a train that left 13 mins earlier than my usual one because the usual one was delayed. Unfortunately, while I knew the earlier one would be slower because it was a stopping one, I didn't realise it was scheduled to arrive 17 mins later. The 35 mins delay added on to the already later arrival = no Balanchine for me. The running time has evidently been tightened up compared to the reports from last night. I was out in the foyer at 21.54. (I then half killed myself legging it to Kings Cross in time to squeak onto the 22.09 so maybe a finish time after 10pm would actually have made it easier for me!) I was relieved to find the Dawson piece perfectly pleasant, if not exactly earth shattering. I'm not sure how much the choreography added to the Vier Letzte Lieder but at least it didn't detract from them. So overall it's a Missed, Strongly Disliked & Liked for me. Not exactly the best triple bill outcome I've ever had! SPOILER for the Miller piece Can anyone hazard any sort of explanation as to why the Mother suddenly vanished into the rock steps? Most of the rest of the choreography I could vaguely understand, even though I disliked it, but that moment had me completely baffled.
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    I found the upside of the amplification tonight was that it meant I couldn't make out most of the words, which was good because those words I did catch seemed to have nothing to do with what was happening on stage. The last few minutes of electronic music sounded like what I imagine tinnitus to be! I think I'll get half of the out portion of my ticket, which will be just under £5. Doesn't go very far towards a £35 ticket. At least buying a cheaper restricted view ticket was fine for Les Noces. Frankly a ticket with no view of the stage at all might have been even better for me!
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    I'm currently looking up ticket offers for next Wednesday, as I'll be travelling back from a matinee in Richmond via Kings Cross so could pop up to Sadler's Wells & just see the Balanchine. Not exactly happy about having to pay for 2 tickets to see 1 complete triple bill though!
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    It evidently started on time tonight. Sitting in the foyer waiting for the second piece - which frankly I am expecting to dislike! Livid with the train company.
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    The train I'm on is now running half an hour late & isn't going to get to Kings Cross until at least 7.20pm so I'm never going to get to Sadler's Wells by 7.30pm & therefore I'll miss the Balanchine. Of course that's the one out of the three pieces that I really want to see. I'm not sure I even want to go if I can only see the other two pieces.
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    Oh, I've already got a ticket for the opera, I booked that back in July when booking opened. I am getting increasingly reluctant to book things in advance though, as there seems to be no end to the strikes. I would like to go to Don Q on 28th October but with it being a Saturday & half term I have a horrible feeling there may well be another strike that day so I daren't book in advance. I think I'm going to be doung a lot of crossing fingers for getting Friday rush tickets this coming season.
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    I've been to a couple of post-performance talks at my local theatre over the years with the casts of plays. I'm guessing ENB's probably won't involve dancers though. Though as I'm currently stuck on a train that's running late due to signalling problems if it doesn't get a move on I might not even get to Sadler's Wells in the first place!
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    I think I'm going to abandon trying to see the ROH L'Elisir D'Amore on 5th October. I had originally booked because it's a nice, light, enjoyable opera but it's not going to be enjoyable if I have to spend days beforehand worrying about whether or not the trains will be running!
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    Having just printed out my ticket for tonight, I am reminded that there is going to be a post-show talk. I've never been to an ENB talk before. Can anyone give any idea as to how long they usually run & what sort of topics may be covered, so I can make a more informed decision as to whether or not I stay for it?
  25. Dawnstar
    After reading some of the comments about last night's performance, I will be heading off to tonight's performance with considerable trepidation. I had thought that if I didn't enjoy the choreography of two new pieces at least I'd be able to enjoy the music but it sounds like even that won't be the case.
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