Clara_f

On 21/11/2021 at 20:31, JNC said:

Not to hijack this thread but it’s quite timely as I was considering booking for La Bayadere next year. 
 

I was mainly wondering if tickets do sell out quite quickly as given we’re still in COVID times I don’t know if it’s too risky to book when tickets go on sale. 
 

linked to the above if I couldn’t attend because of covid (either a U.K. lockdown or me catching it or something like that) do Paris Opera do a exchange/credit/re sale scheme? There was mention of the official ticket resale website above - could I put my tickets up on that?

 

And any other general hints/tips much appreciated. I know Bayadere is in the Bastille so I don’t know whether to actually hold out and go for Giselle in the Garnier instead!

Hi JNC 

I have found that if you book a month in advance or so there is still a good selection of tickets left. Less than that and it becomes a bit spendy. However decent priced tickets do then become available on the resale site below.

The official resale site is: 

https://bourse.operadeparis.fr 

Garnier is stunning inside with a Chagall painted ceiling X with some serious gold and marble going on.

Have never been to Bastille but am sure it's a cool experience!

Just one thing to note is that on my recent visit there was no orchestra in the pit due to COVID measures and it did detract somewhat from the experience as the interaction between live music and dance is the key to reaching the zenith for me.

Hope you enjoy!

Thank 

12 hours ago, Katerina Sedra said:

Hi Clara, do you still need a ticket? 

I've got SC C-22, seated, £28. 

please message me if interested

 Thank you so much and apologies for the delayed response I was able to secure a ticket.

Hello I am looking for 1 X ticket for Giselle on 1 December (Takada / Corrales).

Thanks!

Clara

Selling 2x tickets front amphi for tomorrow's general rehearsal. Originally £23 each but would take an offer.

I have two tickets tomorrow for the general rehearsal if anyone is still looking.

I have two matinee tickets tomorrow for the general rehearsal if interested. £23 original price, selling for £15 each. 

Merci beaucoup tout le monde! I went through the official resale site bourse.opera and found some good tickets for 5 December. I also checked dansomanie (I'm half French so the language was not an issue) but could not find a resale section like we have here, but I might have missed something! 

Much appreciated for all your advice!

Hello to everyone who might have some information or experience on the best (aka most economical) way of buying tickets for the PoB.

I am keen to see the Ashton / Bausch / eyal triple in December but have left it a bit late it seems on the ticket front and the only remaining tickets are in the 100 euro plus brackets! 

Is there a forum like this (or other resource, eg. Friday rush like at the RB) where one can find more reasonably priced tickets? 

MERCI in advance for any info ❤️

I am thinking of treating myself to tickets for SL (I usually always sit in the amphi) and wondered what seasoned forum members thought of seats in the stalls, stall circle or balcony? 

I like being able to see the corps formations, but wouldn't mind being a touch closer to the action. Thank you for your advice! 

I just read Ballet News' Cupcakes and Conversations with Fumi Kaneko and apparently she only found out on the day she would be dancing aurora and hadnt practised the role in a month (excerpt and link below) !! Quite extraordinary to rewatch the SB broadcast with that in mind. Loved watching:

-Mayara Magri, Anna Rose Osullivan and Yuhui Choe again in the prologue

-The rapport between Fumi Kaneko and her princes in the rose adagio, and seeing how pleased the whole company were for Kaneko (Hannah Gremmell looked like she about to burst into tears and so was I) 

- Bonelli in his solo and his PDD with Kaneko in the vision scene... Made me pine for what would have been their Swan Lake!

Watching this made me wonder who would have been made a principal at the end of this season: Kaneko, O'Sullivan and perhaps Magri surely all candidates depending on how SL had gone... 

“Which role has tested you the most & how ?

The cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty in January was an experience that I‘d never had before ….

I was told to do Aurora on the same day, which I hadn’t done for more than a month.. I couldn’t have done it without my friends and colleagues support. I could enjoy the performance and live in the present on stage.“

http://www.balletnews.co.uk/cupcakes-conversation-with-fumi-kaneko-first-soloist-the-royal-ballet/

On 16/06/2020 at 14:30, Janite said:

Back in March, we were rehearsing a new production in Senegal with Pina Bausch Foundation and Ecole des Sables. 38 dancers from 14 African countries had come together to revive a masterpiece as it had never been seen before – Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring, created in 1975. It was going to be incredible. 

When Covid-19 forced the world into lockdown, we had to halt rehearsals and cancel performances. 

But before the lockdown rules came into effect the company had time for one last rehearsal. On the beach. In Toubab Dialaw, Senegal. At dusk. Set to Stravinsky's rousing music. Luckily a filmmaker captured the whole thing on camera. We knew we had to share something this special with the world… 

On 1 July from 12:00 pm BST, we're making Dancing at Dusk – A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring available to watch from Vimeo on Demand for 30 days. 

(Pre-order now or sign up to get a reminder on our website: https://sadl.rs/DancingAtDusk)

I can't get the link to work here, but if you go the you tube trailer below the link works from there.

 

 

A last rehearsal. On a beach at dusk. As the world was about to go into lockdown and go dark...  This is going to be incredibly poignant and bittersweet given that their world tour was postponed... Can't wait! 

This week Sander will be interviewing:

Alexander Campbell RB (Monday 😎

Leanne Cope, formerly RB and An American in Paris (Wednesday 10) 

Camille Bracher, formerly RB and now Wayne Mcgregor Company (Friday 12) 

26 minutes ago, ninamargaret said:

Agree totally, but it's still a bit worrying to only receive a refund for one ticket out of ten booked in two orders! 

It is indeed!

My empathising with ROH staff (and anyone who is having to deal with knock on effects of covid on top of their day job for that matter which often means many people are working dawn until dusk so perhaps don't always have the time to respond to the additional email traffic promptly and shouldn't be judged harshly for it) doesn't mean I can't also empathise with your completely valid concerns Ninamargaret about when (or indeed if!) you will receive your refund 

It sounds from the other posters that your intuition that everything is being refunded by date of performance is correct so am crossing fingers for you that you won't be left out of pocket for too long given the number of tickets you have purchased! 

3 hours ago, toursenlair said:

I have every sympathy for box office staff all over, who are all dealing with processing tens of thousands , even hundreds of thousands, of tickets for each opera house, while working from home if they can.

Consider the ROH alone: In round numbers:  capacity 2000+ times 3+ months of performances = 90x2000 = 180,000.

100pc agree, they're doing a stellar job given the circumstances and the sheer volume of multiple requests. 

1 minute ago, alison said:

And because of work overrunning I've just missed Sian Murphy  

Alison you'll be able to see the Sian Murphy interview the moment Sander posts it on his IGTV tab on Instagram. It will be available indefinitely. 

Because of changes to some of Instagram's features, in conversation interviews will no longer be available for 24 hours through the live function, but instead will be made available indefinitely through Sander's IGTV (Instagram TV). In the app on a phone or tablet, the IGTV is the middle tab. 

I found James Hay's thoughts on Rhapsody and dancing works choreographed on other dancers, and finding a way as a dancer to make something your own while ensuring the integrity of the piece remains, particularly insightful and illuminating. 

What a lovely person, as well as delightful dancer. Great interview! 

The best User Experience interface is definitely:

1. downloading the instagram app on your phone or tablet; or  

2. Using chrome browser on your PC but is slightly more clunky than 1. above. 

I've not had any issues with watching any of Sander's classes or interviews and I mostly use option 1. (The reason for this is that instagram is deliberately designed to engage people from their phones and more "authentic" photo and video content not from computers where you might have retouched photographs etc) 

This may have been posted elsewhere on the forum already but former Royal Ballet First Artist Sander Blommaert is holding 1 hour long in conversation instagram live sessions with guests from the ballet world on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays every week at 7pm. You can access this through his Instagram page by clicking the "Live" button and these are saved for 24 hours on his page if you can't make it for 7pm. Viewers can submit questions in advance for any of the interviewees on Sander's Instagram post announcing his guests. 

This week will feature James Hay, Leanne Benjamin and Sian Murphy.

Ive posted his Instagram handle and relevant post for information below:

Selling x 1 ticket for pina bausch on sat 15 Feb, A10 second circle. 

Sadlers Wells 

Bought for £39 will sell for £30 ono.

Hello everyone 

Selling x 2 tickets for Onegin on 12 February. 

21A and 24B in the Balcony (restricted view) £39 each 

Hard copy tickets which I can send first class tomorrow. 

I'm loving how much all the RB dancers are cheering on Fumi Kaneko in their Instagram feeds.

May she and Bonelli have a wonderful performance,  and wishing Lauren Cuthbertson a speedy recovery for the Cellist. 

Thanks Sim and Bridiem, that makes sense and I now understand your respective perspective about Mcgregor. 

I found Woolf Works to be the absolute highlight of the decade, in terms of new work seen on the RB stage, and completely agree with Bridiem that it was utterly thrilling. 

I understand why some audience members find some of Mcgregor's dance vocabulary challenging or unappealing, and some of his works haven't been my cup of tea at all which definitely made me want to up and leave (eg. Live Fire) but I wonder if Mcgregor hadn't been given such prominence, whether WW would have seen the light of the day? I'm glad it did in any event, and I'll take the dust to get to this particular diamond which has moved me as much as the RJs/Manons/SLs etc.

The fact that he has been capable of a diverse dance vocabulary is also interesting, and hopefully means he can produce more work in the future that is as breathtaking as WW. Who knows unless he is given a chance? Bring on the next decade to see what he and other choreographers have in store! 

1 hour ago, bridiem said:

I'll start with the Lowlights to get them out of the way. Both my lists are in no particular order of priority or chronology.

 

Lowlights:

• the continuing prominence of Wayne McGregor at the RB
• the poor quality of most of the new RB works during the decade
• Project Polunin at Sadler's Wells, 2017
• the various issues with the ROH since Open Up (including the new Linbury sightlines)
• the revival of the full-length Anastasia (RB) (though Act 3 still brilliant)
• the ending of the new RB Swan Lake (which will deprive me of my essential SL catharsis at the RB for many years to come)

Highlights (only a few, when there have been SO MANY!):

• Woolf Works, RB 2015 - thrilling, including the return of the sublime Alessandra Ferri
• the 'previous generation' of RB dancers: Cojocaru, Kobborg, Rojo, Benjamin especially and the sadly short but wondrous period of Polunin as an RB dancer
• the 'new generation' of RB dancers, including Osipova - especially Muntagirov, Hayward, Campbell, Sambé and so many others
• someone who spans the two 'generations': Sarah Lamb, the most exquisite, beautiful, moving dancer
• Akram Khan's Giselle, ENB
• Akram Khan dancing anything
• Lest We Forget, ENB 2015
• BRB Giselle 2019
• Rojo's directorship at ENB (though it also marked something of a lowlight given her loss to the RB repertoire and less frequent performances)
• the live screenings of performances - brilliant initiative
• Kevin O'Hare's directorship of the RB (with some reservations, but in general I think he does an excellent job)
• Hofesh Shechter - Political Mother, 2010
• the MacMillan Celebration at the ROH 2017 - the leading UK companies sharing the ROH stage, especially Northern Ballet in Gloria
• David Bintley's knighthood
• reaching my personal landmark of 1,000 live ballet/dance performances earlier this year
• and last but definitely not least: joining this Forum in 2015 - it has completely re-booted my ballet-going (I went to 8 performances in 2010 compared to 38 (plus live screenings) in 2019 - almost back to the heights of my early years of ballet-going!) and the stimulation, learning and entertainment it gives me all the time. So a huge THANK YOU to all the members and moderators!

Bridiem, I absolutely love your list, what a way to remember the decade! 

I'm a bit confused though about a lowlight being the prominence of Mcgregor when the first ballet you put as a decade highlight is Woolf Works? 

1 hour ago, serwooooosh said:

Thank you very much Clara!

 

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Hope your mum likes your animation flip book, sounds v cool! Happy Christmas!