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  1. Stevie
    Or taking a drink, 2 metres wouldn't have been sufficient.
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    Don't know if anyone saw how HET are dealing with social distancing in ballet. https://youtu.be/Qx-ef3U5qN0
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    Oh well, that suits me best, I didn't want to miss it. but was concerned about going.
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    I just hope that it will be safe to go to Manchester to see Raymonda in October, but have my doubts. I went to the railway station in my dust mask yesterday, just to have a distant look at how procedures are going. Looked promising from the platform, but its a long time to wear a dust mask on the train. I don't know of another British company that has this complete production in their locker. Even the Entr'acte is brilliant.
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    There is some logic in that. The Bolshoi released Coppelia on DVD and Blu-ray on 12th April 2019. It would be best commercially to put some time in between the two release dates, so 18 months apart make sense.
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    We should take that as hopeful. As I recall there were mega variations of casting over the Dream production run and the ROH Production page has now disappeared, so cant see what if any opportunities existed for repeat filming with the same cast. Anyway, we cant do anything other than wait and see if it is released. Fingers and toes crossed.
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    It was a senior member at Naxos who said he would initiate another look at releasing 'Jewels'. From memory he thought there had been a copyright glitch at the time and thought that they only had the Cinema streamed filming and like to have three. When I expressed that the Cinema streamed version was great and would settle for that he told me in how much detail every movement is scrutinised and how difficult it is to get it past this examination and into manufacturing. I suppose we would call it 'fussy'. It appears to be about artistic merit rather than picture and sound quality, which as we know from the Cinema release was excellent. If they release it at all, I believe it will be on both DVD and Blu-ray. That was about a month ago and I haven't heard anything since. I have other versions of Jewels, but would definitely prefer this one above all.
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    No, but they appear to have skipped from Enigma straight to Cellist, missing out the Coppelia, which at first glance doesn't look promising, especially since Enigma was streamed on line as well. I know they were reconsidering releasing Jewels, but not heard if there is any result. They did tell me they usually rely on several recording sessions and don't normally release if they only have one recording. This means there isn't a HD blu ray recording of Coppelia, apart from the Bolshoi release, which I found very good, POB which is quite different and Ullate Ballet, which is 'extremely' different.
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    The 'Enigma' Blu-ray is now available to pre-order on Amazon.com and it's the multi regional version, so you can safely bet that it will be available soon on Amazon.co.uk
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    Just up on youtube. Mariinsky Theatre streaming 'Anna Karenina' , choreography Alexie Ratmansky Anna Karenina - Ulyana Lopatkina Alexia Karenina - Viktor Baronov Count Vronskya - Andrei Yermakov And of course Maestro Gergiev heading the proceedings https://youtu.be/JXutH4LVWrg
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    Mariinsky Theatre are streaming the Ballet, 'The Four Seasons', today on you tube from 5:00 pm onwards. The Vivaldi score Orchestrated by Max Richter and starring Ekaterina Kondaurova https://youtu.be/61uBfHd1pPM
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    Just up, streaming from 'Perm Opera Ballet' , La Bayadere, complete ballet Guesting are Nikiya - Natalia Osipova Gamzetti - Maria Alexandrova Solor - Vladislav Lantratov https://youtu.be/tBeH46piTvg
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    There has been a decline in disc sales as streaming has grown. However the current return on optical disc movie sales is still a very healthy 4 billion dollars per year, in the US alone. With a massively reduced production cost over the years and little new investment requirement, it appears very unlikely that distributors would completely abandon this lucrative market. It is more likely that the future of DVD & Blu-ray, in years to come, will have a similar future to Vinyl, which was replaced by tape and then disc, but now forms a very lucrative niche market, having made a healthy return. I don't see a need to worry about buying on disc for a long time to come. There are some shrewd businesses out there and why make money on one product if you can make money on several.
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    Mario Cavaradossi is the male lead in Tosca, but rather long for a pet, so just Mario. If you ever have an evil scary pet, you could call him Scarpia, also from Tosca.
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    The Blu-ray has been registered with a bar code, which is fairly conclusive that it exists as a manufactured product. Just need to be patient with the pre order confirmation, after all, it wont arrive any sooner than the release date, whenever it is paid for.
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    I had never heard of such a claim, and had thought the opposite. An Eric Underwood article cleared it up for me, when he said, ' In a corps de ballet, especially for women, the idea is to be identical: you're trying to move the same and not call attention to yourself. For someone who isn't white, that's difficult. You're left with a choice: you have to either become so great a dancer that you're not left in a chorus or a line, or embrace your beauty and hope others do, too – seeing it as beautiful, even if the symmetry is disturbed. I suppose that's how such great artists as Arthur Mitchell, Carlos Acosta and many others came to be. I recently saw Precious Adams with English National and Rishan Benjamin with Scottish Ballet, where they stood out only because they were and looked so good. It could be in an Ethnic company the opposite would apply but I have seen mixtures which look good there as well. The only valid claim for people who cant do ballet, stands against me. My Physio said I had flat feet, bow legs and funny knees, just like a footballer. Now there's a real physical reason.
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    Opus Arte have the Royal Ballet DVD , Concerto/Enigma/Raymonda act 3, advertised on Amazon for release on 17th July, to pre -order
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    If they fail to show it (or even if they don't), it is a worthy purchase. I have it on Blu-ray and the whole programme is very good
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    This looks very worth while. It says 8pm, but not sure what time zone that is in.
  20. Stevie
    I have never heard of this ballet before and came across it by chance. 'The Bluebeard', Petipa, extended variation seen here with Kristina Kretova and Semyon Chudin. https://youtu.be/_V8z_sOBRS0
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    English National streaming Swan Lake on 27th. Recorded at Liverpool Empire so perhaps Jan can hopefully give us a review ? https://youtu.be/rfTvtIHSkeQ
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    You may wish to check this out prior to posting. I see that Winter Dreams is being streamed by Perm on 23rd May at 15:00. See attached. https://youtu.be/X-WgKbOSZE4 I wont try to speculate whether this is in breach, I wouldn't know how to check. I prefer to watch a complete ballet, rather than watch related interviews or documentaries and Perm, as well as a few others have been appearing regularly. The NYCB has been putting on a regular schedule of twice per week and my favourite was Pulcinella Variations.
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    Mariinsky have uploaded 'Le Cavalier de Bronze' on youtube channel. https://youtu.be/OfYKASqFXAw Starring Vladimir Shklyarov Viktoria Tereshkina Ekaterina Kondaurova
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    It may be to do with when your browser is updated. I haven't seen this particular site, but know that is the case for certain others.
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    Mariinsky - Anna Karenina - Complete, uploaded today on youtube. https://youtu.be/ABnUHMNwoDg
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