Rob S

1 hour ago, DanJL said:

Wow! Could this cause a continuity issue if they need to fall back on a combination of the two filmed performances for the cinema relay...? 

Quite possibly as his hair also appears to be a different colour and a different style. 

BREAKING NEWS: The ponytail has gone!

  At this point I have no idea if it resigned or it and Mr Whitehead had just grown apart. More info if I get it. 

Looks like there are server issues as I can't view my e-tickets at the moment

8 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said:

According to Jann Parry's review (see today's links) the Sullivan/Sambe cast had a somewhat unexpected debutant in the role of Paris - Noel Edmonds. Can anyone who was there please report back? 🙂

From my Stalls Circle side view I could clearly see Mr Blobby being physically restrained in the wings by Tybalt, the Friar and the Nurse when Romeo stabbed Mr Edmonds in the final act. 

1 hour ago, TSR101 said:

 

If we want opera and ballet to thrive, we need continue to attract new audiences

....that can last an hour without looking at a phone

1 hour ago, JennyTaylor said:

and the very untidy ponytail didn't help in my eyes.

I presume it did for his though😄

I see he wears his hair untied when he's the friar

It’s amazing how Natalia does pretty much everything differently to everyone else….even sitting on the end of the bed! 

Bit annoyed with myself for not zooming out for the red run run! 

A lovely moment before curtain up when the woman sat behind Mr Bravo got up and asked him if he was going to take his 🎩 off  . I presume he said yes he will be but she took no chances and swapped seat with her friend while the woman behind them took a pic of it all. 
No shouts of BRAVO yet even though the dancing was fabulous. Juliet was so overwhelmed by Romeo’s kiss she went up to the balcony using the unlit side stairs 😮😆

Amazing Anna Rose and marvellous Marcelino this evening 😭👏

That brings back memories....as does a guest house between there and the Hoe despite living on the outskirts of the city at the time

1 hour ago, AnticaFiamma said:

They announced the cast for the first two shows – Gary Avis is returning as Tybalt!

Interesting casting for tomorrow....has Juliet had a bit of an argument with one of her friends!?

Juliet’s Friends

• Mica Bradbury
• Amelia Townsend
• Ashley Dean
• Leticia Dias
• Mariko Sasaki

Ballroom Guests, Townspeople

Artists of The Royal Ballet

Juliet’s Friend

Charlotte Tonkinson

Very pleased to see Leticia Dias looks set to be Siegfried's Sister, Neopolitan dancer and Spanish Princess in the upcoming Swan Lake

Although I liked the imagery of ballet, photos, Degas paintings etc I'd never seen much actual dancing other than the odd clip you'd see on mainstream telly but in 2016 I spotted a trailer for Tamara Rojo's Good Swan, Bad Swan (filmed in 2014) on BBC4 and decided to record it. Unlike most of my recordings I watched it pretty soon after the time of the broadcast and when they showed a clip of Swan Lake in the round at the Albert Hall I paused it and googled it and saw that it was being performed there again so decided to book a ticket and then watched the rest of the documentary.

I enjoyed the performance and booked a ticket for another one a few days later but wasn't well enough to go. About six months later I noticed a small Russian touring company was visiting the decent local theatre that I regularly see plays at so booked to see Swan Lake....it was quite sweet and then got a ticket for their Nutcracker a few days later. I think I still have hearing damage from the landing the Prince made after one of his jumps.

I decided it was time to see a great Swan Lake on blu ray so got the Osipova/Golding RB one and REALLY enjoyed it. At this point I should've just bought the 22 ballet boxset but bought all the ones with Tamara in and then over the next year bought and watched loads more. I heard a new production of Swan Lake was coming so bought ticket a for that with a couple of Manon performances as a warm up. I saw one La Bayadere and three Mayerlings but after finding out about Stalls Circle Standing places in time to see Unknown Soldier/Infra/SIC seeing multiple performances became a regular thing.

1 hour ago, Sebastian said:

and there are no words in Russian for 'the'. 

 

 

WF! 😲

11 minutes ago, Sim said:

  Of Isaac Hernandez and Francesco Frola as John de Bryan (if you are going to anglicise this name, why the 'de'?!)........,

It's all a bit Anton du Bec😄

Did Tamara Rojo appear on stage at the end of either of the performances you saw? I'm slightly disappointed that I ended up going to one of the few performances she was nowhere to be seen.

The Disney films are called Sleeping Beauty...the ballet, at least the Royal Ballet's, is called The Sleeping Beauty

1 minute ago, Dawnstar said:

I've watched this on BBC4, not having seen it live or on the ROH's website. It was interesting to watch once but I'm not sure I'll want to watch it again in a hurry - which is fortunate as my attempt to record it will have failed because my mother turned the TV off about half an hour before it finished!

Depending on the recorder it doesn’t matter if you turn the tv or the recorder off during the recording

49 minutes ago, LinMM said:

Rob S... I just checked with originals and the shadow is there in them too!! ....Was the Coli stage that reflective 🤔 have no idea!! 

 

The first two pics are the ones that display the phenomenon the most clearly...I'm wondering if it's the ghosts of banned photographers

10 minutes ago, Emeralds said:

Yes, I think without seeing what you have they probably don’t know. For me it would be distractions to other audience members or blocking their view that  I would be more worried about. I personally don’t think it’s a 

problem videoing curtain calls- lots of dancers do it in the audience and even on stage 😊 especially when it’s a farewell performance. What I would be annoyed with would be what someone did at an amateur performance once- she took an iPad (not a mini one but a full size one!) and frequently kept holding it up in front of her to photograph her kids, thereby obstructing the view of everyone behind her. I guess they’re just trying to cover all wild ideas some people might have. Just bring what you use for the Royal Ballet pics and I think it should be fine, Rob. 

Maybe they thought my camera might be the size of the one that was frequently used on stage during the performance

2 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said:

For anyone who has LFTs in hand, I'd strongly recommend doing a test on the day and then registering it online as in the instruction booklet.

 

This is both because if you're concerned about spreading the virus it's the safest way; and because they can send you an email and text confirmation of the result - I find the text much easier to bring up in a hurry than the NHS App proof of vaccination status

I think that needs full access to the working app though

1 hour ago, LinMM said:

I know these are not very good taken with an iPhone from First Circle but am really pleased I’ve now found a way of posting pics here albeit slightly reducing the size of the original. 
 

I think they're a great record of the evening LinMM. I'm trying to work out what it is that you've captured on the floor in front of each person...it's like a negative shadow!!

4 minutes ago, Emeralds said:

I took curtain call pictures with a medium sized digital camera (discreetly) several years ago with no problems. Maybe they mean ‘not photoshoot equipment’ eg a big flash and long lenses.

I know there are plenty of gatekeepers that say things like 'no professional cameras' at venues...they don't really know what they are talking about re cameras. The customer relations person simply repeated the mention of 'recording equipment' mentioned on the website T&Cs which I personally regard  as video cameras for getting footage of the performance. I was quite clear about what I wanted to do and said that I do it at the ROH but repeating an already mentioned T&C does save brain power for what must be a busy department right now.