Rob S

25 minutes ago, Shade said:

Thanks RobS for your great photos - did you get one of Hirano?

 

by the way I can confirm that the stalls circle seats were removed yesterday, I assume to allow the sound to travel up. 

 

 

Not super quality as the ISO had to go up to make up for trying to hold a very small compact with a long lens but here's the man.

When I got home from last night I decided to book another chance to see Princess Yuhui on Monday night and managed to get a Stalls Circle seat near the stage, in the online description it states the aisle is NOT always available so I guess I'm not going to be in my preferred aisle seat

3 minutes ago, capybara said:

 

Well, that's only to be expected when, at some performances, Cesar Corrales is leading the Hungarian Officers.

Yes he was fantastic last night, his quality really stood out

And another

From tonight

13 hours ago, Don Q Fan said:

I have to tweet them first on Twitter then copy the URL off the photo and paste into here. It's really frustrating that this forum set up won't let you simply post photos straight from your pc directory.  I don't know why this is as other forums I've used  all facilitate the posting of photos. Such a shame. 

You can post photos directly from your PC, and your phone. I did that for a couple of my Mayerling photos last week. The only issue is that there is a file size limit of 152kb per post, so you’d need to crop/resize/compress them first

5 minutes ago, Don Q Fan said:

If ROH are running out of cast sheets this is really poor considering the cost of tickets. They know how many tickets have been sold and I like a spare too! It's unbelievable. 

Another good reason to get there in plenty of time....hopefully they keep a 'master copy' so people can photograph it if they run out

5 minutes ago, yumiko said:

In general, yes.

But current La Bayadere is a different story.

Some casts start with Nikiya snd some starts with Solor.

On top of it, listing the concert master in the same line with main dancers is also confusing to me. 

Oh dear, that's definitely changed since I booked my ticket for that

1 hour ago, mauriceC said:

I have just looked at ROH website under the heading What's On where the works are listed individually ,curious as to the casting.

If anyone can work out who is dancing what,then congratulations.

It just seems that a few random names have been pulled out of a hat in no particular order.

 

The idea of that page is to give a summary of who is appearing in the main roles for each performance...like names on a poster for a film that has an ensemble cast. The order is the traditional order that the characters appear in the cast sheet.....so for Mayerling it's always Rudolf, Mary, Marie for example. Clicking on the underlined date leads to a page which details the dancer's full name and the character they play as well as running time and act length

56 minutes ago, penelopesimpson said:

Now that is funny!  Not quite as bad as Alastair Campbell....

On my second ever trip to the ROH earlier this year I saw Alexander Campbell and Alistair Campbell...one was on stage, one sat in the foyer, can't remember which was which now

2 hours ago, Mummykool said:

It's not so much the tardiness of Luke Jennings review of Monday's performance as the inaccuracies within it. According to his review, the opening of Act 1 portrays Rudolph's engagement to Sophie. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Rudolph had just married Princess Stephanie, not got engaged to his grandmother!

Must be something about newsapers and Mayerling, on Friday Alexander Campbell posted an Instagram Story featuring a photo of him in the Standard (?) that had labelled him as Alexander Bratfisch!

21 hours ago, Sim said:

Since you confessed, Rob, I am sure you’re forgiven!

 

Towards the end of her life my mother’s mouth was always dry.  Her rustling whenever we went to the ballet used to drive me (and probably people around us) mad, so I started unwrapping her sweets before the show and putting  them in a tissue.  The silence was heavenly!

I should point out I didn't open them in the way I would at home but with one hand under a folded arm.....but as the woman I was talking to claimed she was put off by the loud ticking of a woman's watch behind us I was clearly in a tough crowd.

On 04/01/2018 at 10:21, Nicola H said:

i think The Fourth Doctor  has the answer to the  sweet issue ...  (aslong as the bag is suitably soft paper) 

 

would  you  like a Jelly Baby ?
 

 

If only I'd seen this post before last night, although Jelly Babies (in soft paper bag) aren't very good for sorting out tickly throats.

Anyway, I'm here to confess my sin from last night's performance of Mayerling....at the first interval an usher came up to me and very diplomatically pointed out that someone behind me had complained about the squeaking of my sweet wrappers as I opened them ( I only opened two, from a small supply in my breast pocket during the louder moments of the act) . 

Although I wanted a large hole to open up in front of me....between my seat in the second row and the orchestra pit... it did create an ideal ice breaker with one of the few people around to witness my embarrassment, I did tell her I may well end up appearing in the 'Audience Behaviour' thread on a ballet forum I occasionally post on, and here I am  

I've got to post one of Yuhui too, of course

From last night

A great night, I was expecting Tierny Heap as Empress Elizabeth (listed as being her debut in the role) but it turned out to be Lara Turk

Lightweight piece would be an understatement.

A few words from Yasmine and Francesca

It's starting!!!

I'm sure that won't be answered in the next 15-20 minutes

Quick heads up......There's going to be a report on the BBC 6 o'clock news about the RB's attempt to be more diverse

Don’t these people realise all their problems can be solved by rebranding themselves as Royal Opera House & Partners!? 

Yep, just checked (for the squilionth time) and all 5 hours of it is up in one video...cheekily they claim it was uploaded 2 hours ago 

8 minutes ago, Balletfanp said:

Is anyone else unable to watch the RB segment now up on YouTube? Everything else is playing fine so it’s not my broadband or anything.

 I subscribe to the ROH youtube channel and the most recent content on there that I can see is the Unknown Soldier Insight

26 minutes ago, Odyssey said:

Does anyone know what was the thinking behind the decision to restrict live coverage to Facebook, rather than also stream through YouTube? 

You may have seen the multiple uses of the phrase We've taken the decision to share the stream on Facebook in order to reach as many people as possible, on the ROH website.....every year I watch the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Youtube or Facebook (they use both) on the days that I don't go to the event in person, it works well for hours and hours a a time and throughout the day links on their FB page which followers will also pick up on their newsfeed so clips of interesting incidents which also serve as reminders that this event is on to see.

I have no idea why the ROH can't do the same or very similar unless it's down to Youtube fees

There seem to be no posts today on the ROH's FB page

Just got home from work.....hunting high and low to find any RB content from today, preferably the La B rehearsal