Rob S

She returned to the stage in the same performance Steven McRae did

8 minutes ago, LinMM said:

Ive already mentioned Liam Boswell as a great new Kolia but thought Meghan Grace Hinkis was also very good as Vera. I can’t remember if she has performed this role before but if not must have learned very quickly so a lovely surprise from her for me and hope she gets another chance at it. 

Meaghan was Vera in the last run too

Last seen as a harlot in R&J, then😢

2 hours ago, bridiem said:

 

Thanks, Rob S. I'd assumed that by subscribing to a channel I'd see upcoming streams but that doesn't seem to be the case. I've now set it to receive Notifications from the ROH, but it's still only showing past streams on my page and on the ROH page. Clearly I don't understand YouTube!

You'll see it when the ROH set one up....the fact that there may be an upcoming one on a date you know of (from the ROH website, for example) doesn't mean there should be one on the youtube channel listed already.

10 minutes ago, bridiem said:

There are 3 LWFC insights this week, all of which say 'filming'. Does anyone know if this means that they will all be on YouTube, live? I'm not going to any of them but might watch at least one of them if they're being streamed. (Or we do assume that all insights are now shown live on YouTube? I'm confused about this.) 

 

Related to this, I subscribe to the ROH YouTube channel but when I look at it the Home page shows various past highlights and the Videos tab shows past insights etc that have been streamed. Are upcoming streams/videos mentioned anywhere and I'm missing them?

Upcoming streams appear a couple of days ahead on my homepage of Youtube with an option to set a reminder, it's p0ossible they would also appear as a thumbnail on the ROH channel's page too 

The RB are becoming wig-woke 🙂

1 hour ago, Angela Essex said:

Just here to say watching Marcelino today in Rhapsody 😮😮😮😮🔥🔥🔥🔥 had to scoop my jaw up off the floor. Idk what that step is called when he’s doing a handless cartwheel turning in the air in the splits but I literally gasped. He’s amazing.

Since the Gala for Ukraine I’ve been calling them Frola rolls 😊

Maybe we should start the Balletcoforum Dance Awards.

Made for interesting searching as well but I’ve posted it here to spare you that 

https://criticscircle.org.uk/nominations-for-national-dance-awards-announced/

DANCING TIMES AWARD FOR BEST MALE DANCER 
Jeffrey Cirio (English National Ballet) 
Francesco Gabriele Frola (English National Ballet)
Brandon Lawrence (Birmingham Royal Ballet)  
Vadim Muntagirov (The Royal Ballet) 
Edward Watson (The Royal Ballet) 

BEST FEMALE DANCER  
(sponsored by Tendu)
Momoko Hirata (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
Marianela Nuñez (The Royal Ballet)
Natalia Osipova (The Royal Ballet) 
Cira Robinson (Ballet Black)
Erina Takahashi (English National Ballet)

STEF STEFANOU AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANY
English National Ballet 
New Adventures 
Northern Ballet 
Rambert 
The Royal Ballet 

BEST MID-SCALE COMPANY
Ballet Black 
Ballet Cymru 
Hofesh Shechter Company 
Motionhouse  
Scottish Dance Theatre  

BEST INDEPENDENT COMPANY  
Amina Khayyam Dance Company  
Far From The Norm  
Impermanence  
Rhiannon Faith Company  
Yorke Dance Project  

BEST CLASSICAL CHOREOGRAPHY 
(sponsored by The Ballet Association)
Gene Kelly & Christopher Hampson for Starstruck(Scottish Ballet)
Wayne McGregor for The Dante Project (The Royal Ballet)
Mthuthuzeli November for The Waiting Game(Ballet Black)  
Arielle Smith for Jolly Folly (English National Ballet)
Valentino Zucchetti for Anemoi (The Royal Ballet)

BEST MODERN CHOREOGRAPHY 
(sponsored by Harlequin Floors)
Miguel Altunaga for City of a Thousand Trades(Birmingham Royal Ballet)
Matthew Bourne for The Midnight Bell (New Adventures) 
Robert Cohan for Afternoon Conversations with Dancers (Yorke Dance 
Project)
Dimitris Papaioannou for Transverse Orientation(Dance Umbrella/Sadler’s 
Wells)
Botis Seva for BLKDG (Far From The Norm)  

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 
(sponsored by The L&M Trust)
Nafisah Baba (Freelance Dance Artist)
Lanre Malaolu (Performer, Choreographer and Writer)  
Bruno Micchiardi (Soloist, Scottish Ballet) 
Gina Storm-Jensen (Soloist, The Royal Ballet) 
Emily Suzuki (Artist, English National Ballet) 

OUTSTANDING FEMALE MODERN PERFORMANCE
Cordelia Braithwaite as Clara in Nutcracker! (New Adventures) 
Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes(Anything Goes/The 
Barbican)
Rosie Kay in Absolute Solo 2 (Rosie Kay Dance Company) 
Michela Meazza in the The Midnight Bell (New Adventures) 
Yolande Yorke-Edgell in Lamentation (Yorke Dance Project) 

OUTSTANDING MALE MODERN PERFORMANCE
Dan Daw in The Dan Daw Show (Dan Daw Creative Projects) 
Paris Fitzpatrick in The Midnight Bell (New Adventures)
Akram Khan in Xenos (Akram Khan Company)
James Vu Anh Pham in Outwitting the Devil (Akram Khan Company)
Richard Winsor in The Midnight Bell (New Adventures)

OUTSTANDING FEMALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE 
(sponsored by Lee McLernon)
Antoinette Brooks-Daw as Morgan in Merlin(Northern Ballet)
Alessandra Ferri in L’Heure exquise (The Royal Ballet/AF Dance/Ravenna Festival)
Marianela Nuñez in the title role as Giselle (The Royal Ballet)
Natalia Osipova in the title role as Giselle (The Royal Ballet) 
Beatriz Stix-Brunel in After the Rain (The Royal Ballet)

OUTSTANDING MALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE
(sponsored by London Ballet Circle)
Jeffrey Cirio in the title role as Creature (English National Ballet)
Vadim Muntagirov in the title role as Apollo (The Royal Ballet)
Tyrone Singleton as Romeo in Radio and Juliet(Birmingham Royal Ballet)
Joseph Sissens in The Statement (The Royal Ballet)
Edward Watson as Dante in The Dante Project (The Royal Ballet) 

OUTSTANDING CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION 
Thomas Adès (Composer, for The Dante Project)
Rickard Berg (Composer, for Coppélia, KVN Dance)  
Lez Brotherston (Designer, for The Midnight Bell) 
Tacita Dean (Designer, for The Dante Project)
Logela Multimedia (Digital Imagery in the work of Motionhouse)

BEST DANCE FILM  
Kyle Abraham/New York City Ballet for When We Fell
Rhiannon Faith/Rhiannon Faith Company for DROWNTOWN
William Forsythe/CLI Studios for The Barre Project 
Gene Kelly & Christopher Hampson/Scottish Ballet for Starstruck 
Jo Strømgren/Rambert for Rooms 

2 hours ago, capybara said:

I do wish, however, the the ROH would clarify the casting for the special Swan Lake because the uncertainty they have created is not good in several respects.

 

 

I think we just need to sit tight for a while...it seems Lauren Cuthbertson has been replaced by Laura Morera in the 23rd April and 2nd May performances of AMITC so maybe there will need to be other positions to be clarified too

7 hours ago, Dawnstar said:

Cast change for the first performance of the second block of Swan Lakes. At the moment Takada's still down for 16th May. I hope this won't stop Lamb being able to participate in the performance for Ukraine the following night.

 

A shame for Akane Takada, I’m sure it won’t stop Sarah doing her bit the next day though…she’ll only have one act to do 

I think it was Junker, he did an individual walk forward at the curtain call.

Interesting there is no more announcement about face coverings before the start of the performance and the Perspex barriers have been removed from the ticket office desks.

Oh and I found The Weathering a lot more interesting second time around 

33 minutes ago, LinMM said:

Just found it by the link to casts from my Swan Lake visit as there wasn’t a link for this one in the email. 
Im assuming no casting for weathering as a lot of the Company are involved? 

Melissa, Amelia and a load of chaps

They’ve sorted it within 90 minutes

The link for tonight’s performance on the Cast List page doesn’t work as it’s just underlined text….I wonder if they’ll notice and change it 

6 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said:

I don't think this has been posted (forgive me if it it has) but here's the press release:

 

https://static.roh.org.uk/for/pdfs/press-releases-22-23/Royal+Opera+House+announces+22.23+Season.pdf

 

It includes the date for the RBS summer performance, on a Sunday next year - July 16th (at 3pm according to the website).

That's quite useful. it doesn't answer an earlier question about who is doing the staging of Cinderella but shows the Magic Consultant has already been finalised😄

Yaaaay for Mayerling, Cinderella, SB, Diamond Celebration... and a tentative welcome for Woolf Works which I recorded off the telly before I watched my first ballet in 2016 and still haven't watched!

This one is still available

17 minutes ago, alison said:

Yes, it would be nice to get back to the original subject of the thread: I presume some people have been to see it beyond the first night?

I'd still like to know what a man over near the orchestra pit area of the Stalls Circle shouted just before the start of DGV

25 minutes ago, Timmie said:

 

 

Whenever we talk about ‘32 fouettés’ I just assume we are talking about ‘a lot’ rather than exactly 32.

That's definitely what I mean, she starts when she's supposed to start, she finishes when she's supposed to finish and she's doing however many turns she wants in between.