Rob S

I noticed last night that the ROH website has stated which Nutcracker performances will be for schools/children only since I last looked...Sat 4th Dec will be the Paul Hamlyn performance (Cuthbertson as SPF) and the Tuesday 7th Dec matinee will be for schools (so the general public miss Tierny Heap as SPF ☹️ )

Nice to have a five day advantage over general release....although the idea that I'd have to see the Dante Project as many times as R&J/Giselle is a touch depressing!! I think I'll give up the 8% additional discount and just 'design my own'

32 minutes ago, oncnp said:

Some of the seat maps (R&J at least) have been updated and it looks like there will be packages available

 

 

 

And the ability to design your own Stalls.....I'm just off to get some fabric samples, paint swatches and a higher seat 🙂

The award seems to have been presented by Matthew Bourne

The awards ceremony is being screened on Sky Arts on Thursday evening

1 hour ago, FionaE said:

Sadly I’ve tried that and it’s still too large 🤔 900+ kB after compression.  And the tool won’t let me compress further.  I used an Image compressor.   Could someone recommend a better tool or method?   No idea why the original photo is so large… I use my iPhone.  

Open a Flickr account (it's free) and host them there, then link to them here...you then don't have get the file size down at all

Just now, Mandy Kent said:

Yes it’s the first time for Yeo Valley Balley 😉

As an aside , I can hugely recommend the Yeo Valley salted caramel ice-cream… best ever ! 

Good enough to think of it as £85 a pot with a free ballet performance thrown in? 🙂

I thought the organisers sounded familiar, they did the performances in the south of France that various RB dancers went to a few years ago, photos show they put up raised seating for that

Anna Rose O'Sullivan has just posted some pics including one that gives a hint of the audience view...even stood up and standing in the middle of the aisle seeing anything below the knee was a problem for the photographer

It's a bit of a struggle to see

Fumi and Reece are dancing After The Rain and the Manon bedroom pdd 👏

13 minutes ago, FionaE said:

Fantastic programme that we’ve heard of so far.  Daichi performing Rhapsody.   Looks like Alexander Campbell is doing a solo from Dances at a Gathering.  
 

Fully expecting to melt while watching .. 3pm start on a hot summer’s day! 🥵 

 

now … how to get a seat with decent sight line?  🤔  (I’m going on Sunday)

Is the seating unreserved? It looks my idea of a nightmare, sitting in direct sunshine at this time of year, staring at the back of someone’s head (they’re bound to have a big floppy hat on 👒) 

1 minute ago, capybara said:

 

Other takes from yesterday afternoon:

• lovely to see Hannah Park and David Donnelly finally get on stage in Anemoi (how is it that David has not yet moved higher up the ranks

Despite Hanna being listed in the digital cast sheet she didn’t appear, she was replaced by Yu Hang 

1 hour ago, Shade said:

Thanks to a return ticket I was there today. First time in 18 months and I felt it was well organised and I felt safe. I know the seating can’t remain but it was great for me not to have anyone sitting directly in front of me.

 

thoroughly enjoyed the performance - those around me didn’t enjoy the Mats Ek piece. I thought it weirdly amusing but out of place in this programme. Lovely farewell to ms Stix-Brunell.

 

Got to admire ms Naghdi a ballerina fully majestic in the role of Aurora. 

 

i must say it was a bit challenging getting out of Covent Garden- two tube stations shut due overcrowding with football fans. Thankfully I was wearing trainers and walked to Charing Cross but there were a lot of noisy fans there too.

 

very glad I went though

 

Were you in the front left curve of the Stalls Circle? Some people there couldn’t contain their laughs, a bit distracting. I really enjoy it, both Magri and Osipova were fantastic.

I was really impressed with Joonhyuk Jun’s Bluebird, so pleased I got to see that.

Oh and thanks to an Instagram story from Fumi Kaneko, the person I couldn't work out was Philip Mosley

3 minutes ago, jmhopton said:

Terrific photos, Rob. You really captured the moment. I was there and I wasn't sure who the flower givers were as they were all wearing masks. I thought I recognised Kevin, who was first, then Gary Avis and Christopher Saunders but not sure about the others. 

I'll comment more about the performance when I'm home. I'm on the train and it's very shaky!

Thank you, Edward Watson is the one in the white shirt

It appears Hanna Park and David Donnelly will finally get to dance in Anemoi today 🙂

43 minutes ago, Jeannette said:

...and I am woman with ice cream !

I hope nobody dodgy served it to you!!

Oh ek! 🤦🏻‍♂️

I guess this is the correct place for travel news for Sunday’s mixed bill.

I work for Great Western Trains and earlier this morning received a Retail Alert to inform me that the timetable will be affected all day on Sunday 11th July ‘due to a significant number of staff having to self isolate through test and trace’ which of course is code for ‘the football is on’. There are planned cancellations but also a risk of short notice ones too.
I imagine many train operating companies will face the same problems ⚠️ 
 

22 minutes ago, alison said:

I can't imagine that it could go out live, given that they have to splice in this other piece while Osipova is doing the Ek.  Far too complicated, surely?  Plus there are two intervals they are going to have to "massage" out - unless they're going to have those "live", too.

I think it’s Magri doing Woman with Water tonight 

23 minutes ago, oncnp said:

 

Streaming starts at 8pm BST on 9 July 2021 

Which I assume is 2pm Jeannette Daylight Time 

I guess the stream starts an hour later than the live performance so they don’t have to have an interval 

Have I understood Mayara Magri correctly, is Woman with Water not being streamed tonight due to rights reasons!!? 😮

2 hours ago, FionaE said:

The ‘sale’ prices of recordings seem out of touch with reality …
 

For instance, ENB Le Corsaire DVD with Alina Cojocaru and Vadim Muntagirov reduced to £19.99 from £24.99 in ROH shop when you can watch the same show on ‘ENB On Demand’ for £7.99 (though this is only 3 days access).

 

‘Dancer’ the movie about Sergei Polunin is reduced to £16.99 from £19.99 in ROH shop, when you can purchase permanent digital access for £7.99, or rent for 48 hours at £3.99

Clearly it's cheaper to go the On Demand route if you know you'll only want to watch the content twice at most, all my ballet blu rays get a frequent viewing. And as DanJL says digital files get either lost or completely forgotten about and if they are supplied by Apple they're a real pain to try and watch any way you want