Rob S
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The website eventually worked....slowly getting through the reviews but a line in the assessment of the latest Nutcracker rather jarred.... 'In 2006 the Arabian girl was too fat (Laura McCullock); in 2016, she's too lean (Itziar Mendizabal): '
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2 hours ago, Richard LH said:
I have found an interesting US site https://www.hdvdarts.com/ https://www.hdvdarts.com/best-ballet-dance-blu-rays that reviews what is available for home viewing (also opera) and gives quite detailed technical critiques of the recordings and their visual quality, camera angles and sound (and includes many screen shots), as well as the author's views on the actual productions (dancing, sets, costumes, music etc). The latter aspects are of course a matter of taste and opinion but the technical comments in particular look pretty useful in helping buying decisions. With 123 ballet recordings listed I could spend quite a lot of time on this site!
If you can get the pages to load it appears to be very useful re the ballet reviews
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I sense Vadim Muntagirov fans are itching to have a go 😂
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This thread is weird!!!🙃
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8 minutes ago, Richard LH said:
I'm assuming it's Martin Harvey....
I was impressed with his legs
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Alexander appears at 1hr 05 until 1hr 30. It was an enjoyable 25 minutes
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9 hours ago, loveclassics said:
I'm assuming it's Mara. One of my favourites too and still a very active performer though it's been far too many years since she was with the RB.
Linda
Don't you fee(l) you've missed a major clue with your choi(ce) of guess? If you are quickish you've got time for one more go. There's a smack on the way for anyone that says Bolle or Soares!!
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52 minutes ago, JohnS said:
Hasn't your favourite recently got married but I don't know if she takes her husband's name?
Ok, that's cleared that up....hoping Stevie will be along to help my brain later.
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Is he playing the Sausage Sandwich game?
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You've both confused me 🙃
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7 hours ago, toursenlair said:
The National Ballet of Canada sells signed used pointe shoes at their shop at the theatre. $35 for corps de ballet dancers, $45 for soloists, $60 for principal dancers. They do quite a brisk trade; I'm not sure how much money they make off them but it's pure profit.
Exactly! I didn’t think I’d had an original idea! 😂
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1 hour ago, AlisonS35 said:
What an incredible story above. Giving someone their life back, you must be very proud of your wife and the decision she made.
Perhaps a little off track but in terms of autographs... My 8 year old daughter is lucky enough to have a signed pair of pointe shoes from some of the dancers as my friend is a past soloist of RB. I would think that would be a great way of using the old pointe shoes and raise some money for the pointe shoe appeal? Anyone know why they don’t already do that?
I raised that question with the listed contact on the pointe shoe appeal page after I recently won a pair of Yuhui's shoes in a silent (but deadly!) auction run by a dance school in Australia (the shoes were from the RB's Brisbane shows last summer)...over a month later I haven't had a reply, maybe she's too busy counting all those £39 donations that people are falling over themselves to give. Obviously they're not going to find homes for 6000 pairs every year but I thought a decent selection may bring in some money rather than we just see photos of shoes in a bin from various dancers on Instagram
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I couldn't possibly say, but you're welcome to guess if you fee(l) lucky.
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12 minutes ago, LinMM said:
Now Ive got THAT ticket can calm down ( I'm sure my blood pressure goes up whilst booking these things online) and take a cool look at what else I might want to book too!!
I know now how you feel, I need one of those post-booking cigarettes...and I don’t even smoke!!
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I’m somewhat relieved that I managed to get my exact preferred seat in the stalls for La B because the interactive price guide thing didn’t show any price for them when I was looking last night!!
I hope you all managed to get the seats and performances you wanted.
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2 minutes ago, BristolBillyBob said:
Wish me luck, then!
I'll report back in the autumn...
If it were me and I particularly wanted the Special Edition (enough to buy it at £50 if that's what it had said originally) I'd check with Amazon customer services quickly to determine what's going to happen given there will only be 500 of them. If you 'just chose the special one as it's a seemingly free enhancement then maybe leave it and you may be pleasantly surprised.
Amazon are usually very good re customer service so may honour it but I would check
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9 minutes ago, BristolBillyBob said:
I put in an order for this when it was £30 earlier... Literally the only time I've preordered anything on Amazon, and their Preorder Price Guarantee has already paid off for me! 😄
Don't quote me on it but their price guarantee deals with the price you pay should it go down between the time you order it and when it's released, as it's now indicating the Special Edition version is £50 they may claim your order was when it was mis-priced and the guarantee doesn't cover that.
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30 minutes ago, ninamargaret said:
There must be some sort of curse on Woolf Works. I recorded it on my hard disc, then transferred it to DVD and somehow managed to lose a chunk of Act2, so I don't get to see Eric Underwood in his gold outfit!
Oh dear, we can't have that.....a snap from my own recording
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I've seen people take as long to get balanced as Tamara held her balance, though
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24 minutes ago, Jam Dancer said:
Is there a priest in the house? Me thinks we need an exorcism ...😳
Priests don’t do exorcisms properly anymore, too busy posting pictures of themselves lifting weights. Can’t even quote the Lord’s Prayer, half of ‘em!
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33 minutes ago, Livia said:
, Ashton is one of the two towering geniuses of 20th century choreography, he defined the Royal and turned it into one of the great world classical companies and he has been brutally relegated to second or third best.
Surely, somebody’s dear Livia, if he was one of the TWO greats second wouldn’t be considered brutally relegated
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13 minutes ago, fashionista said:
However, I did hear rumours that that the 2020-21 season will be entirely devoted to new works.
Well that'll save me plenty of money
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3 minutes ago, Livia said:
The sweetest thing is, Dear Lindsay, you and Dear Robert think this is witty and clever. Despite responding to you civilly, explaining my points and addressing yours, you all persist in this rudeness. It's terribly sad and very immature. And yes, indeed, I do have many messages complaining of this behaviour.
You’ve not addressed mine. Very rude.
how many different people have messaged you to express agreement?
im going to guess one, who then later messaged you to ask that you don’t name them after you started telling us all you’ve had many messages
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1 minute ago, Lindsay said:
Livia has the bigliest number of private messages Rob. Really really big numbers. The biggest.
Yes I can imagine, I have noticed a slowing down of the internet this afternoon as it struggles to cope with all the traffic heading Livia’s way
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The "new" Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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At least some of these titles and more are available in the shop.....and if you go right this second Vadim is on display in Floral Street (probably on his lunch break) 🙂