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  1. Jeannette
    I just finished watching for the first time and WOW! Just wow! Gorgeous ballet, exquisitely filmed. To watch on my TV I couldn’t click on a link (as when on a computer)...I had to search YouTube with the keys on my remove control; hence the alternate instructions. I’ll probably rewatch on computer but -WOW! - what a total joy to watch on the big, super-sharp TV flat screen from my favorite comfy couch! INITIALS R.B.M.E. is a masterpiece of neo/classicism. A real tour de force for the large corps de ballet, not just principals and soloists. I’ll catch the principals’ names on the second view...definitely recognized Friedemann Vogel in the Pdd...and I see that Toursenlair’s link includes the full cast list!
  2. Jeannette
    From Stuttgart Ballet: INITIALS R.B.M.E. (Cranko/Brahms) is now up and streaming on demand through Saturday, May 16, & into part of Sunday, 17th. I got it on my TV YouTube by searching in German, as it did not appear in the English-Lang version of Stuttgart’s Youtube channel. So...you’ll want to type: Das Stuttgarter Ballet Initialen R.B. M.E. It should pop up. A 56-minute film. Enjoy!
  3. Jeannette
    I totally loved this. Call me old fashioned but, for me, I love the elegance and fluidity that comes with ladies on pointe. It’s just a different aesthetic. It’s the big differentiator as to whether or not I’ll devote time to watching a ballet during this COVID season when we’re presented with many choices.
  4. Jeannette
    I watched and loved this ballet! For me, nothing beats a ballet that has ladies in pointe shoes...sorry, that’s my separator. Fantastic Beings is perhaps my fave among the ENB offerings thus far. Looking forward to Deane’s Swan Lake, too.
  5. Jeannette
    I totally agree with Bruce and others about the greatness of NYCB’s latest digital offering. I switched to this immediately after watching the horrendous ABT “Together Tonight” infomercial. I went from the ridiculous to the sublime with one flick of the remote control.
  6. Jeannette
    Isn’t it a tad curious that the current NYCB digital season doesn’t include any works by Martins, who led the troupe & created many ballets for over 35 years? Back to Sylphide: The current un-traditional version premiered in 2014...also by Hubbe. It’s very spare black-white with Madge being a male character in love with James. Rather edgy, that I recall. So will Hubbe go even edgier or will he revert to the traditional storyline? I selfishly pray for the latter.
  7. Jeannette
    I can’t find the non-UK cancellations thread so will post here. Just announced that theatres on Broadway/NYC will remain closed into early September (at least). Wondering about Nutcracker season in late November/December...yikes.
  8. Jeannette
    Two full-length Bournonvilles. I’m wondering if the new Sylphide will see a return to the traditional staging?
  9. Jeannette
    OMG, it’s always been a dream of mine to see this!!! You’ve just made my day and week. 💕
  10. Jeannette
    Adding to Alison’s answer: Also, if you have a “smart TV” with voice remote, you can get all YouTube programs on your TV - nowadays large sharp screens and stereo sound. It’s the next-best thing to being there...sometimes (as with the recent Concerto DSCH film) even better...noticed every detail! Not always the case, of course.
  11. Jeannette
    Oh my gosh. Even worse than had imagined. Given this scenario for live audiences - if it comes to this - (a) What would each precious ticket cost in a major venue? and (b) Why in heavens would a performing arts company not also want to offer paid-streaming options for a public interested in seeing that company perform?
  12. Jeannette
    So right about the timeline for theatres reopening. I hate to hear it but it’s the truth. Ballet will survive, of course, but it will take a while. As for films vs live...of course live is best. But how many can afford it...especially with the present unemployment rate in the US? I hope that, in the end, North American ballet fans can enjoy the amount of web or cinema streams that Europeans enjoyed before COVID-19.
  13. Jeannette
    I watched Sonnambula just now. Lovely work! The Sleepwalker was Natalia Magnicaballi. It was her farewell performance; hence, the confetti, huge bouquet and extra-loud cheers at the end. Not sure about the others, so I leave that to another member to post. Rather odd to have no casting and credits.
  14. Jeannette
    I cannot imagine theatres reopening before spring or summer 2021, when a COVID vaccine may be readily available. Audiences and the production teams (including performers) would not be able to maintain safe distances. I hope I’m wrong. With regard to audience distancing and the economics of each performance...how can people be asked to, say, pay for two seats — their own and one of the empty seats beside him/her? Or is the government going to subsidize each empty seat? Think about it. Every other seat at ROH staying empty. Who’s paying for the empty seats? If the answer is the public, then the serious arts will become more elitist than ever. Solution? I would happily pay a decent reasonable amount to watch live or rare filmed performances online. After this “COVID Season,” I believe that the streaming of performing arts is here to stay. Three cheers, I say, for the overwhelming majority of ballet lovers who don’t reside in New York City or any of the dozen other cities on earth with regular world-class ballet. One thing that I would not miss: shelling out money for travel and hotels (and meals and all else), for the chance to see new ballets or favorite old ballets with new casts. Regardless of this or future pandemics: bring on the streaming!
  15. Jeannette
    Like you, I was very pleased with the single house cam, as the operator zoomed-in at all the right spots, at the right times.
  16. Jeannette
    The Budapest ballet gala is on now. Lovely. YouTube channel: Operahaz
  17. Jeannette
    I bought the LHH dvd with Somova and Sarafanov. I have it...looking at the cover right now...seems professional (not pirated). Sorry if I mistook countries. It’s odd how some DVDs are marketed only in certain countries, not in others.
  18. Jeannette
    The Hungarian National Ballet/Budapest’s “International Ballet Gala” of June 2018 will be streamed for free on their YouTube channel tonight at 17:00 Budapest time (16:00 UK, I believe). Just announced on their FB page. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157335929113181&id=248415223180
  19. Jeannette
    Please report back, if you can, DanJL. In my report, I should’ve mentioned the interesting “extras” that can be seen as part of this PNB Giselle video package, one being an 11-minute intro by Doug Fullington, one of the historians (along with Marian Smith) who conducted the research into sources that informed this production. Fullington & Smith were to have headed a Giselle Symposium in Seattle last month, in conjunction with a cancelled revival of this production. If the symposium & Giselle performances are rescheduled for next season, I’ll try my darnest to attend. Even my husband is talking about going and he rarely comes along on my ballet trips.
  20. Jeannette
    By the way, the PNB Giselle that we watched last night was TERRIFIC! Wow! First-class dancing and a delectable production full of rediscovered surprises. It’s hard to choose between this Giselle reconstruction and the Bolshoi-Ratmansky one. Much to love in both - Ratmansky’s with greater emphasis on the Christian element. I prefer the gorgeous PNB designs by Kaplan, based on the 1841 Paris originals; the Ratmansky based more on Benois-Diaghilev (also beautiful). Both Bolshoi & PNB include the extended ending with Albrecht and Bathilde but Bolshoi’s longer & clearer. In PNB, Giselle sinks to the earth in her own tomb; at Bolshoi, Albrecht carries her across the stage and she sinks into the earth at a little flowered hill. Love how the veils of the PNB Willis fly off - up high, then off to the wings! Some reconstructed scenes in Bolshoi-Ratmansky - such as the Willis’ fugue before the main pdd - don’t appear in PNB...and vice versa...some PNB restored parts don’t appear in Bolshoi-Ratmansky (the village lads encountering the Willis and almost being ensnared). Big surprise in PNB version: Hilarion (Bakturel Bold) is played as a tall elegant gentleman, in his topcoat. Not at all a peasant yokel, almost an equal to Albrecht. Kudos to all soloists. Hard to believe that this performance was Giselle-Kaori Nakamura’s Farewell! Albrecht-Jerome Tisserand absolutely spectacular, esp in his high entrechats and the new-old solo in the pdd. Carrie Imler a perfect Myrtha- the bourrees!!! Amazing Peasant pdd couple, too. Truly a production and performance to savour. p.s. Our neighbors who joined us - not ballet fans like me & my husband - were so impressed and thrilled with what they saw that they made a donation to PNB!!! Now new ballet fans.
  21. Jeannette
    DanJL, there’s an English language option at the top of the Amazon jp home page (upper right). I just search ballet dvd, then sequence the results with the newest at the top.
  22. Jeannette
    As Naomi mentioned, it’s not over yet. Also, just FYI, the commercial DVD exists. I purchased it from Japanese Amazon a few years ago. Still, it’s great that others can see it for free by other means.
  23. Jeannette
    The “Join the Party!” Invitation came about an hour ago! So happy. For “party going donors,” the Giselle film will remain up for viewing through May 13. 🎈 🎊 🥂 😀 🎉 PNB is really bringing it. I’ve neighbors coming over. Chairs spaced...social distancing...I’ve a jumbo 4Q TV hooked to computer. Giselle!!!!
  24. Jeannette
    I love his Nutcracker...and I’m usually not a big fan of any Nut! I also admire his Nijinsky and the recent Liliom for Alina Cojocaru.
  25. Jeannette
    Right. And I’m still waiting for the promised email from PNB in how to access this. I donated a nice sum (between $50 and $100) one week ago, as soon as I read PNB’s initial FB post about this. I trust that instructions on accessing will come; Seattle is three time zones away from me, so the day is young!
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