Rob S

32 minutes ago, Blossom said:

Valentine’s Day looks like it will be particularly empty- stalls and stalls circle only half full. 

 

I've been trying to avoid looking at what's available for the 14th as I've already got a stalls seat and I probably should have gone for a nice unobstructed side Stalls circle.

I did manage to pick one up for tomorrow that's marked Friday Rush despite me booking it on Saturday

I'm getting the new events page on my laptop now, takes a lot of scrolling to get down to the bottom, doesn't it!😂

Just looking at the cast sheet for last night's Two Pigeons....The Young Girl, The Young Man, Gypsy Girl, Gypsy Boy......outrageous 😲😂

Does Xandra need to be sent on some sort of awareness course now?

I only found out about it thanks to Claire Calvert’s instagram a couple of hours later. 

15 minutes ago, JohnS said:

 

A few comments now and pleased mine (Simon Smith) made it through moderation - but no reply as yet.

 

https://www.roh.org.uk/news/la-forza-del-destino-the-royal-opera-houses-position-on-viagogo

I think ‘Frankie’ has a screw loose 

15 hours ago, JohnS said:

Just before the Don Q Insight (very enjoyable), I posted a response to Alex Beard’s news item on the Royal Opera House’s website.  I hope I’ve reflected the various points made above, including: asking about the Netrebko/Kaufmann Forza general booking %age availability (which I assume was lower than the 17.5% for all Forza performances); the 20% target (whether it’s still operating and if it’s per performance or averaged over a booking period); and what action is being taken in relation to tickets being sold on Viagogo.  I imagine my post is awaiting moderation.

Quite amazed to see no comments appearing on their News page yet....

7 minutes ago, Sim said:

Counselling for what, RobS?

In case you think my decision to list them in order of appearance is stupid and that height order would’ve been a lot more logical. 

I think it’s incredibly rude of them not to give a special thanks to the Royla Ballet for allowing their pianist to appear at this Insight, what a way to treat a guest appearance! 😱

In my dream role of Head of Pamphlets I would list the presenter first and then everyone in order of appearance and provide a helpline number at the bottom for people requiring counselling. 

The figures weren't inaccurate, just not very palatable....trying to state figures which will include things that aren't selling quickly to counter claims that some very popular opera performances are as good as sold out before the public can buy them is probably more inaccurate

I enjoyed their La Fille mal gardée in Swindon last week, no ponies, carts, chicken outfits, not a lot of ribbonography but great fun

1 minute ago, Don Q Fan said:

Why can't ROH just put the whole year on sale like a lot of German theatres and Het National in Amsterdam do so much less stressful. 

Because everything would be nearly sold out a year in advance and that brings another kind of stress. 

I can only imagine 3rd April will be even worse if they don’t sort it out

I hope you all managed to get approximately what you wanted, I know I did in the end. I now need a drink!

Yes it was paused for me for a while but eventually it moved.....don't refresh!

And on my laptop being on the site at 0830 has enabled me to be 1076 in the queue

Oh and now I'm in a queue 909!

The R&J page will now load but with no ption to buy anything

I was on the R&J performance page at 0830, at 0900.15 I clicked on my chosen performance and it went to the same page I would’ve got if I’d  tried last week and since then can’t get to a performance page at all.

this didn’t happen for Swan Lake 

A total balls up! 

I feel embarrassed enough tagging the dancers in some of my instagram photos of them, there’s no way I’d cope with trying to see them at the stage door.

On 20/01/2019 at 17:41, Darlex said:

Bracewell is probably the conductor again! 

He's got no choice....Boris is in training https://www.instagram.com/p/BtF8sxIhAXF/

6 hours ago, Naomi M said:

Now his Instagram account is hacked and has nothing left inside.

https://www.instagram.com/sergeipolunin/

He appears to have lost two thousand followers since my attention was brought to his account last night. 

Just now, Lizbie1 said:

I thought Stix-Brunell was terrific as the Young Girl this afternoon, beautifully danced and very funny. I’d love to see her as Lise.

Yes she danced and acted very well....I thought Claire Calvert was a great Gypsy Girl too

1 hour ago, zxDaveM said:

 

for those there this afternoon wondering about the fate of the white dove after it escaped from Reece’s grasp, it fluttered into the pit, just managing to avoid an arm waving Barry Wordsworth, and sat implacably on the music stand of one of the double bass players - to much amusement. A young lady entered the pit and rescued/recaptured her, ready to be thrown back in (literally) at the appropriate ‘awwww’ moment.

And I thought they just got the spare out 🤣