Rob S

1 minute ago, Dawnstar said:

 

 

That's a brilliant photo @Rob S Considering how many times Avis must have performed the role he still looks so joyful to be doing so.

Thank you, a bit over exposed but I only remembered he does this just as he walked in to view

4 minutes ago, RuthE said:

 

A snowflake descended slowly from the flies at a most inopportune moment in last week’s dress rehearsal for The Queen of Spades.

Really? Who was that!? 🤣

A shot from last week

I've just read that the Duchess of Cambridge will be going to the ROH next Wednesday to visit the costume department at the ROH and "...find out more about the scale of the department’s work and their use of textiles before hearing from Royal Ballet dancers about the design of their costumes.".

I'm wondering if she'll then crack open her flask of tea in the beige departure lounge area which I will now call the Bore-all Hall

And yet Gasparini was in the Kingdom of the Sweets!! 😮

16 minutes ago, Bluebird said:

The website for this evening’s performance has Gasparini and Ella as Clara and Hans-Peter yet they are not dancing. O’Sullivan and Sambé are dancing and are even listed on the cast sheet.  

Yep, very strange. I’m just trying to work out what paper they are saving by doing it like this 🙂

14 hours ago, bridiem said:

It begins to sound as if we could form a company. What about The Royal National BalletForum Company? We've all been there after all. 😆🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️

Well we could do but I’m expecting to be personally head hunted by Dame Cheryl to become Principal and Head  of Cast Change Slips at her ballet company 

23 minutes ago, alison said:

I don't suppose anyone has any idea of who might be the Rose Fairy tomorrow, or on the 15th?  Who's been dancing it this run?

I can tell you tomorrow evening if that helps 🤣

If you are going to have an ending with two Odettes on stage I think they need to be swapped. The spirit of Odette on the rock should be the uncursed, long dressed version, the dead body should be the one in the tutu and swan headgear.   

14 minutes ago, penelopesimpson said:

Back on the thorny subject of who paid for the beige transit lounge.  For my money, money is money, and claiming that the new areas were completed from private funding is surely an irrelevancy. If there is all this private money washing around for ROH to use, then why not use it on new productions and subsidised tickets, things that actually benefit opera and ballet goers?  As things stand, an enormous amount of dosh has been spent on what exactly and for what purpose?  We are constantly asked to cough up for shoes, remember ROH  in our Wills and myriad other requests for money.  Yet, apparently, management had millions at their disposal to build cafes and create restaurants people can’t affird to use.  If this were a public company, questions would be asked.

Presumably the private funders only want to splash out on a legacy building feature rather than piss it all away on slightly reduced price tickets for a couple of years or a soon to be forgotten new production. It's probably as much about their egos

That's reassuring, I'm seeing them here in Swindon soon.

Is there no ribbon work at all?

35 minutes ago, bangorballetboy said:

 

 

Hmm well she may have a muff you can get both hands in but she's severely let down by that bonnet.

On 03/01/2019 at 12:18, FLOSS said:

The girls in brown no longer have usable muffs. Who authorised the costume change which reduces the muffs to an item firmly attached to one arm

 

 

 

 

I spent minutes trying to find Gina Storm Jensen's muff in my Les Patineurs pics until I realised you meant the red girls....and blue girls. I'd never even noticed that part of their outfits.

Pm sent 🙂

1 minute ago, MJW said:

 

Great pics. Do you have any more from The Concert?

I do but this forum restricts the amount of pics you can have hosted on here to 1mb so every time I post a new one a previously posted photo has to go....the one of Sarah is probably my favourite of the Concert ones but I'll go through them properly tomorrow evening and see what I can do. 

4 minutes ago, capybara said:

I don't 'get' what is being talked about regarding the muffs.

Good for you 🤣

1 minute ago, Richard LH said:

Which is a serious problem and I am glad  no-one has tried to make a cheap joke about  it.

I've just nearly choked on a goujon!! 🤣

Couple of pics from last night

3 hours ago, annekh510 said:

 

I was at the Paul Hamlyn performance and this was not the Clara that day, unfortunately I didn't get a cast changes list (nor did I get a program which were free that day), it being my first time at the ROH. I think Clara was Isabella Gasperini, but I was sat quite far away and am guessing based on the blonde hair and the fact there was a rehearsal broadcast with her and David Yudes, due to injury.

 

Oh ok, that situation sounds familiar now

I chose this performance primarily to see Yuhui but was very pleased to see Ashley Dean as Clara as she's been catching my eye in the corps too. Strictly speaking her Clara debut was the earlier Paul Hamlyn performance but I thought she was great 😊

8 hours ago, LinMM said:

in fact I'm going twice to Two Pigeons just so I can see it with Ashphodel Meadows as well as the Royal Ballet students.

Me too 🙂

1 hour ago, Dawnstar said:

 

I did try looking them up on the ROH website but still couldn't identify everyone, especially the men. Maybe I can blame The Concert's costumes: I didn't realise which one was Kristen McNally until the curtain call whereas I'd identified her easily in Winter Dreams.

Maybe you need glasses!🤣

Just now, bridiem said:

 

I come from the tube and turn into Floral Street and go in at the side/front entrance. I love Floral Street - it still feels a bit like the old Covent Garden, and going past the stage door is always exciting.

That's the way I go when I leave....I then walk to Piccadilly station as I don't like Covent Garden stations crowds...I've yet to see a dancer at the stage door but did see someone from the orchestra 😊

11 hours ago, Fonty said:

I never use the front entrance as , I always come straight from the tube to the revolving doors in the Covent Garden piazza. 

 

 

How very odd....I always walk from the tube through the piazza ignore the revolving doors, round the corner, up Bow Street and in the original entrance 😊