Rob S

13 minutes ago, capybara said:

 

That's interesting as Claire Calvert is doubling up!

Claire normally posts that she's going to be X tonight on Instagram when she's got a performance but her last post was last night, a gorgeous pic of her as an Act 3 Princess. I sound like I'm in denial about tonight, don't I 🙃

52 minutes ago, MargaretN7 said:

James Hay as Benno with Claire Calvert and Yuhui Choe as sisters.  

Nooooooooooo Claire and Yuhui are my dream sister lineup and I'm going tomorrow!!!!😢

I think worse than a jester is a drunk tutor....a la Ballet of Siberia.....all the annoyance of him getting in the way and possible #MeToo accusations in the future with none of the ballet skill you can admire

If the spell says they are only maidens at night shouldn’t the sets of act two and four be daylight rather than moonlit? Or was the spell cast during a holiday in Australia, did Rothbart fail to state the curse applies to Odette’s local time wherever she is in the world !? 

4 minutes ago, theThirdMan said:

I just wanted to share this Instagram link for the Vienna State Ballet's recent tour of Japan that has a number of photos taken during rehearsals and the actual performances, I'm sure you will find them quite enlightening:

 

https://www.instagram.com/wienerstaatsballettofficial/

 

 

I followed it when it started but they seemed to post rather a lot and some odd shots but I'm pleased to see they make a lot more sense when they are viewed as a whole!

Ahhhh my kingdom for a detailed review!!!😂

It's started!!!!!!😄

1 minute ago, bangorballetboy said:

The dress code for the first night party is lounge suits/cocktail dresses.

Damn, I never get to wear my cocktail suit!

Some lovely new dress design drawings have been published elsewhere by the ROH 🙂

14 minutes ago, alison said:

 

I might hazard a guess that you wouldn't get too many positive responses from the men

Oh I don’t know, an Elite Syncopations outfit might come in handy if I wanted to do a triathlon 🤣

Yuhui’s Swan Lake PDT dress please 😌

1 hour ago, RuthE said:

 

I think it's the first 5 rows (the rake starts at row F).

 

Personally I love the front row when I can afford it (I don't actually care about seeing the feet; it's al about the faces for me!), but rows B to E are awful and I wouldn't recommend them at all; I used to think the aisle seats on the side blocks were OK, but that was before the Giselle experience I mentioned in my previous post, which was in the row B aisle seat (B7?)

Oh joy, I have B7 for Swan Lake 🤣

One Spanish girl and four blokes.....that looks familiar, Mr Scarlett 😄

3 minutes ago, zxDaveM said:

 

its amongst the changes Liam doing to make it all more logical. As John McFarlane said - six princesses turning up at a ball all with the same dress and accessories???

 

I hope they address the issue of why Rothbart a) is invited to the ball and b) why he gets to sit so close to the queen. I presume the Act 3 set design will include a lot more seating as currently there only seems to be a throne

6 minutes ago, MargaretN7 said:

Because one of the princesses, attending as a potential bride for the prince, is Spanish.

Is she? You normally have six princesses, they tend to be dressed the same and they are the ones that get looked up and down by the prince....and you have four or sometimes five national dances at the ball, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and Russian.

The last Swan Lake I saw had no princesses and the prince checked out the five lead females from the national dances instead.

6 minutes ago, penelopesimpson said:

Okay, ignorance showing here and I haven't seen the Insight yet but....why has Swan Lake got a Spanish Dance?

Because that's what goes best with the Spanish music segment 😄

4 minutes ago, Sim said:

Hi Rob....we are just checking out the copyright issues.  We may need to leave this hidden and just suggest to everyone that in order to see the designs they watch the link to last night's Insight which will be on the ROH YouTube channel for about a month.  

Ok, well at least one of the three pics had the credit on it and I just thought it would make discussion of the new designs easier 

7 minutes ago, capybara said:

 

 

I was slightly puzzled by his claim that the beautiful new pas de deux for Act 4 was to music he had resurrected because it is extremely familiar. But seeing that alone was enough to set one's pulses racing for next week's opening night.

 

 

Yes I was somewhat confused by that too...either the new old music is elsewhere in Act 4 or I must’ve watch the 1897 (?) performance by someone else 

Oh dear, have I been naughty?

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I'll get my coat 🙃

10 hours ago, aliceinwoolfland said:

I *think* that may have been an old photo? 

Yeah that was the old Benno

9 hours ago, capybara said:

 

He hardly registered in the Dowell production as he quickly  merged with three other 'friends', didn't he? The Scarlett Benno has been widely reported as dancing the Act 1 pas de trois. So a considerable step up.

Yes I suppose he didn't actually do any dancing and dancing the pdt would indeed fulfill the criteria of a bigger role.

I thought the role of Benno was already quite big in the last production...how much bigger can he get!?

2 minutes ago, aliceinwoolfland said:

In the bit when they’re doing the final swamp pdd and the characters from earlier are weaving in and out and dancing behind them, is that the ghosts from their past reappearing to haunt them as if part of a hallucination, or is it literally courtesans in the swamp? 

The former.....the very much dead Lescaut and gaoler feature in that bit...it's all memories.

46 minutes ago, jmhopton said:

if we're asking for info. could someone please explain to me who everyone is at the docks in Act 3? Who are the ladies dancing? Are they ladies or are they courtesans for the soldiers? I'm only unsure because they only have knee high dresses (though of course long dresses would make dancing difficult!) Also why are they there? have they just come to ogle the latest prisoners or do they want to help? Also the soldiers; what function do they have? There seems a lot if they're just to police a few half starved women. I've been wondering for a while. It may be explained in the programme but I don't buy them and the Southport cinema info just gave casting and no plot details. (I think they'd missed a page!)

There aren't that many soldiers around, but they've got to guard and then escort an unknown number of prisoners to the prison and police the dock...clearly the arrival of a prisoner ship is a form of entertainment for a variety of the New Orleans population....it's going to be years before the jazz clubs and the NFL franchise move in