Rob S

Maybe the ROH could tell us what glasses and mask combo the orchestra use...many members of it wear glasses and they all wear masks (except the brass section but there’s always one!) and yet their performance isn’t ruined. 

Sky Arts 11th June 6am The Metamorphosis, featuring Edward Watson

11 minutes ago, Anna C said:

 

Due to the socially-distanced orchestra, daughter and I were surprised to find the cymbals, bass drum and snare drum in the box next to us - their volume and proximity gave us a bit of a fright during the Tchaikovsky pdd! 😆

 

 

Yep, I noticed your reaction to the cymbals 💥😆

5 minutes ago, Balletfanp said:

I’m really sad to hear this as she is one of my favourites and glows onstage. What a loss to the ballet world! But I wish her every success in her new path, such an intelligent woman will be an asset to Stanford - not sure if they realise what lunacy is about to hit them, though! 😂

Someone should tell them to hide the skeletons and chickens! 

I think it was very fitting that the first I heard of this was from Yuhui Choe’s Instagram 😆

Having only just listened to the brilliant interview with Beatriz on the SportiveAF podcast (dated December 2020)  I’m not surprised her next life chapter is in academia. 
 

I do hope we get to see her on stage before the end of the season. 🤞

Maybe all of the audience should bring cigarette lighters to illuminate the place 🔦 

‘Respects the past and heralds the future’ 🤨

17 minutes ago, MJW said:

From the ROH's Flickr (not as good as Rob S's !)

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/royaloperahouse/albums/72157719274930622

Ummm not as good as mine if you only wanted to see pics of last night's cast!!!😄

2 minutes ago, Fonty said:

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It has been so long since I have seen any dancers, I am struggling to put names to faces.  Who were they in the photos, Rob?  (Just the main dancers will do.)

Hinkis & Hay

Aumeer, Calvert, Gallucci

Junker,Townsend,Ball,McNally

Dixon,Mullova-Barley,Serrano,Magri,Acri,Bailey, Ella's fingers

2 hours ago, bridiem said:

Thanks for the great photos, Rob S; just a shame about the costumes. I haven't seen this bill but although the dancers have clearly acquitted themselves brilliantly it pains me to see them costumed like this. Ballet/dance is theatre, and by its nature it can't be wholly realistic (any more than opera can). You'd never know that from looking at most of these costumes.

I can't really think how you'd dress anyone for The Statement other than the clothing pictured....an Elite Syncopation style spray on shirt and trousers would detract from the performance, I feel 😆

I think the main improvement would have been to finish with something more uplifting than Solo Echo. I coped well enough with WTGH/Medusa/Flight Pattern but that was put in the middle of a R&J run, not the first thing I'd seen in 6 months.

Regarding Jenny's comment about it all being very Covid safe.....the temperature telly in the foyer had gone since my visit on Saturday and despite an usher coming to us and telling us masks needed to be worn the two women sat to the left of me on my Stalls Circle padded bench didn't wear masks at all except when coming back from the interval, the woman sat nearest to me on my right on the next padded bench had her mask dangling from her ear for most of the performance and the couple in front of me didn't wear masks because he had a lanyard for my protection.

2 minutes ago, Sim said:

Oh joy.  

You're not saying that in the same way I always say 'oh joy' are you?😄

Anna Rose O'Sullivan has just posted that she's looking forward to revisiting Romeo & Juliet with Marcelino Sambe next season 🙂

I'm happy to go on the record and say I loved The Statement. Solo Echo was like a lightweight postscript for Flight Pattern

8 hours ago, Jan McNulty said:

 

Joan, if you click on the pictures to open them up you should see any text (including comments) alongside them.  I love IG as a medium for photograph sharing (I probably share far too many) but it took me a while to get the hang of it.

 

If you are an active poster you have to do it from a phone/tablet app; you can view and make comments on posts on a computer but you can't post your photographs from one.  I find that quite irritating because if I want to post photographs I have taken on my camera I have to wait for my devices to sync before I can.

I email the photos to myself using the laptop and then access the email on the phone, I gave up waiting for syncing long ago 

55 minutes ago, zxDaveM said:

 

As an aside, had Fumi Kaneko NOT been promoted in this latest batch, I may have had to have stormed the battlements, so to speak. Either that, or written a sharply toned missive....

You're lucky she was, the lifts to the battlements are out of action due to maintenance work at the moment.

I’m sure people like Ashley Dean will step up to do Soloist roles

Just spotted that Fumi is a Principal immediately and Anna Rose and Mayara will be for the new season.

I wonder if three new female Principals means we'll be saying farewell to an existing one at the end of this season!!

How fantastic...Anna Rose, Fumi and Mayara promoted at the same time!

Congratulations to all the other dancers too!!🙂

It's public knowledge who the two couples are....having been discussed on the BBC and the ROH stream. Corrales and Hayward are together, Ball and Magri together.

35 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 

I'm afraid I don't understand this, having no knowledge of or interest in bingo.

5 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

May I ask if the pieces overall were more classical or contemporary in style? I didn't want to pay to watch the tream live only to find that they were all of the contemporary "writhing around" sort, which isn't to my taste.

Very contemporary....even the bingo call of 'Boris's den, number ten'.....I've only ever heard Maggie's den

The details appeared on the page hosting the stream

Programme

Joshua Junker ‘The Morning Routine’. Music: Original composition by Bas Ibellini. Dancers: Téo Dubreuil, Isabella Gasparini, Joshua Junker, Isabel Lubach, Kristen McNally, Francisco Serrano.

Valentino Zucchetti ‘Outwardly Finds’. Music: ‘Moments Musicaux no 4.’– Sergei Rachmaninoff. Piano: Robert Clark. Dancers: Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød, Mariko Sasaki.

Ashley Dean ’Nyakaza’. Music: ‘Saint Saens – Groove Mix’– Mooryc. Dancers: Mica Bradbury, Hannah Grennell.

Joshua Junker ’324a’. Music: ‘Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974’. Arranged by Bach from: Oboe Concerto in D minor by Alessandro Marcello (1685–1750): 2. Adagio’– Johann Sebastian Bach. Piano: Michael Pansters. Dancer: Giacomo Rovero.

Stanisław Węgrzyn ’Memento’. Music: ‘Personal Effects– Annie’s Death (Live in Kraków /2008)’ and ‘They Imagine The City Growing Out Into The Ocean’ Jóhann Jóhannsson. Dancers: Marco Masciari, Sumina Sasaki, Edward Watson.

Amelia Townsend ‘Morphean’. Music: Original composition by Cameron Buckmaster. Dancers: Leticia Dias, Charlotte Tonkinson, Amelia Townsend, Marianna Tsembenhoi.

Joshua Junker ‘Two Seasons’. Music: ‘Vivaldi, The Four Seasons Spring 2’– Recomposed by Max Richter. Dancers: Ashley Dean, Joshua Junker.

Matthew Ball ’Waveform’. Music: ‘Poco Adagio (2nd movement) from Piano Trio no. 4.’ – Antonín Dvořák. Piano: Kate Shipway, Cello: Tim Hugh, Violin: Sergey Levitin. Dancers: Luca Acri, Matthew Ball, Mayara Magri.

Marcelino Sambé ‘Othello’s Limbo’. Music: ‘Doublespeak’, ‘Drones & Piano: Part II’, ‘Drones & Violin: Part III’ – Nico Muhly. Dancers: Denilson Almeida, Madison Bailey, Calvin Richardson, Marcelino Sambé.

Valentino Zucchetti ’Inner’. Music: ‘Fantasia in D minor’– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Piano: Robert Clark. Dancer: Yasmine Naghdi.

Benjamin Ella ‘...And At The Hour Of Death’. Music: ‘Prelude, BWV 855a’, ‘... and  at the hour of death’ – Víkingur Ólafsson. Dancers:  Liam Boswell, Harry Churches, Leo Dixon, David Donnelly, Brayden Gallucci, Joonhyuk Jun.

Kristen McNally. Music: ‘Le Temps L’amour’– Francoise Hardy, ‘Moi Je Joue’– Brigitte Bardot, 'Zou Bisou Bisou' – Gillian Hills, ‘Meditation’ – Walter Wanderley. Dancers: Christina Arestis, Téo Dubreuil, Bennet Gartside, James Large, Phillip Mosley, Nadia Mullova-Barley, Taisuke Nakao, Thomas Whitehead.