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Emeralds - Prokofiev in this anti-Russian world? I wasn’t expecting that. Glad for what we got. Other segments had a classical flair - Bocelli & Terfel- or just plain fun - Richie - with most Royals bopping along.

Ive been enjoying it thoroughly! Yes, even the R&J “consolidation” or whatever it was called. Francesca & Marcelino were gorgeous in those lifts…almost made me cry! 😢 Well done! 💐

Some US PBS stations will show it live! Our station serving Puerto Rico will show it live, starting at 3pm today (we’re the same as US eastern time). Go, Royal Ballet! 🎉

I don’t know about the gala but the coronation was fabulous, especially the golden carriage!

Thanks! Beside McRae, my biggest remembrance is of the clear technique of Laura Morera in the Pas de Trois of Corder’s Water section.

I checked my notes of the performance and, whatever the situation with Watson, McRae was out-of-this-world magnificent as Spirit of Fire! It didn’t seem like floundering. His career really took off after that. I’m sorry that Homage was not revived. Even the corny ending (with all dancers turning their backs to the audience, to bow to the crest,) made its mark.

I know! I went to the reconstruction ca 2006, with segments by different choreographers + Ashton’s Queen of the Air section. I especially recall Steven McRae as the Spirit of Fire in Wheeldon’s Queen of Fire segment!

Queen Elizabeth II said the same thing. That’s why I’m amazed that they’re using it this time (for one way only, after the coronation, I read). Wheels, please stay on!

ROTFL…. 🤣 I hope that the BBC installs an in-carriage camera…bump - bump - bump!

Not ballet but The Real Thing: Dress rehearsals took place last night for the Coronation procession…golden carriage goes by at about the 9-minute mark! Exciting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQcUoeNa734&pp=ygUUQ29yb25hdGlvbiByZWhlYXJzYWw%3D Its getting closer.

I hope that Evelina Godunova will go to a ballet company that’s close to the US…not further away. She’s a real gem.

So a West Side Story “redo”? Nothing classical…grrrr…. I was thinking the main pdd from Ashton’s Homage to the King, redone. Silly me!

I’ll be watching live from my home in San Juan! Big weekend! 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 Best wishes to the featured dancers…in whatever they may be performing…have the ballet and choreographer been revealed?

Macmillan’s Requiem and Ashton’s Les Rendezvous!!!

Oooo…this is being shown in cinemas here in Puerto Rico!!! A 30-minute drive from San Juan to Dorado is ok!

Yeah, it’s not on the US Amazon yet…waiting for ABT’s run to end?

Great! Release in June 2023. Hopefully worldwide.

Better late than never! Tonight at 10pm est, the US’ public television network will broadcast Ballet Hispanico’s Dona Perón (chor Anabel López Ochoa/mus Peter Salem) as filmed in Nov 2022 at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Some stations will repeat it later during the weekend. https://thecitylife.org/2023/03/29/ballet-hispanicos-dona-peron-premieres-on-pbs/

Oh, this gets to me! What a lover of the great classical ballet traditions and excellent stager! I met him in 2003 in StP during the early ONDINE stagings. May he Rest In Peace.

Sad news. May she Rest In Peace.

You’re right, Fiona. There was nothing. I must have misread an earlier post on their FB…just advertising the early-starting matinee. Sigh.

The Hungarian Ballet will supposedly be live-streaming tomorrow’s 11am CET (5am eastern US) performance of Van Dantzig’s Swan Lake. If anyone could please provide details, they would be welcomed. Otherwise, I’d be poking around the Hungarian FB site at my 5am tomorrow. casting/credits: https://www.opera.hu/en/programme/megtekint/a-hattyuk-tava-2022/eloadas-202304081100/ O/O will be essayed by US-born Maria Beck, who studied, in part, in Washington, DC’s Kirov Academy of Ballet while I was there…I’d love to see her progress. She later moved to the Vaganova in StP. Any & all info welcomed!

Glad that they’re touring. Yet - No classics…no Harlequinade? I would’ve traveled for that or for Ratmansky’s Scuola di Ballo (to Boccherini…based on the comedic 1930s Massine-Ballet Russe work).

Hats off to Pierre Lacotte, who achieved his 1999 version at the Bolshoi via old-fashioned “foot-to-foot” research. What he achieved is amazing. I just watched the full Bolshoi DVD, as well as the 1999 films of Ananiashvili/Filin and Gracheva/Tsiskaridze. The only negatives are the exclusion of three River solos (Bolshoi is missing Tiber, Rhine and Thames…Bolshoi has the Neva, Guadalquivir and “Congo”-to the Yellow River solo’s music used at the Mariinsky). Today marks Lacotte’s birthday- joyeux anniversaire! What a great job he did!!! We are so blessed for his treasures. 💕

Most early clips were removed. An interesting TV-news report with new clips of the mummy’s-awakening scene, another look at The Monkey (with bees), The Lion, live camels & horsedrawn chariot in the Hunting scene, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPUxcWOMi8 i hope that the geopolitical situation is solved so that anybody in the West might someday see this production live and in person.