MJW

I'm sorry to hear that people are having problems with the new website. Thankfully apart from the front page (and the irritating new Shop) the rest of the site has stayed the same for me. I use Chrome as my browser, I don't know if that makes any difference?

26 minutes ago, RuthE said:

 

It's put me in mind of the height issues being discussed on other threads! Though perhaps it's not an issue in Two Pigeons... after all I think of Campbell as a "short" dancer and Choe as a "slightly taller than average" one, and they were fine together.

How tall are Alexander and James?

1 minute ago, Sim said:

So James Hay with Yasmine???  Hmmm.....

I originally booked to see William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward  - now both of the leads have been replaced ! Never mind

Not sure where to post this..but:

27 minutes ago, alison said:

I'm sorry to say, though, that Laura Morera and William Bracewell were replaced tonight in Asphodel Meadows by the second cast, Mayara Magri and Tristan Dyer, due to an injury to Bracewell (which was obviously known about early enough to get the correct casting printed on the cast sheets).  I'm desperately hoping it's nothing serious, as he's scheduled to make his debut in The Two Pigeons shortly  

Oh no! Seeing him in a fortnight...hope he recovers soon

I'm glad everybody seems to have enjoyed the matinee this afternoon (Feb 2nd). I hadn't originally booked to see this as I am going to the Royal Ballet School/Two Pigeons mixed bill in a fortnight, but I went to see the rehearsal a couple of weeks ago and was so impressed by Asphodel I ended up booking for today's performance, Had a great seat in the Grand Tier (esp as the two seats in front of me were empty!). Two Pigeons was especially lovely and, as I suspect with a lot of other people, had tears in my eyes by the end (as did the chap sitting next to me !).

Thank you for the photos - always nice to have a memento of an enjoyable evening esp Les Patineurs which I thought was lovely.

4 hours ago, Rob S said:

Couple of pics from last night

Great pics. Do you have any more from The Concert?

2 hours ago, Rob S said:

Always lovely to see photos of the performances - especially those one has been to. I was in row E in the stalls last night, so you must have been in the front row! 

I think it was a bit of a shame that the ensemble dancers don't get a curtain call.

1 hour ago, Dawnstar said:

As of a couple of minutes ago the ROH website was showing 3 tickets available for 2nd January so there's evidently the odd return trickling in.

I'm keeping out an eagle eye!

21 hours ago, Rob S said:

You certainly manage to get some great photos !  Unfortunately I had to miss Thursday's matinee as I was sick - I am hoping a ticket becomes available for the 2nd/4th January or in the Friday Rush!

On 10/12/2018 at 11:34, FLOSS said:

 The timings according to the most recent information on the ROH performance database are as follows:-

1) Les Patineurs  24 minutes  (2011 performance)

2) Winter Dreams 54 minutes (2010 performance)

3) The Concert  29 minutes  (2001 performance)

The mixed bill has one hour forty seven minutes of dancing plus two intervals of either twenty five or thirty minutes. I hope this helps.

 

As far as the website is concerned why would any of us expect somebody employed to provide information about performances to the ROH audience to think that timings matter when they clearly don't believe that ballet casting details are of concern to anyone? You have to remember that the Marketing Department has figures which prove to their satisfaction that all anyone wants to know about performances taking place at the ROH is whether they are opera or ballet. They may just concede   that the average operagoer expects to be told who is singing but as far as the balletgoer is concerned all that most people attending performances want to know is that they are going to see a performance by the Royal Ballet. Remember they have the figures to prove it.

 

They want those of us who do not conform to this ideal audience which their consultants have identified for them to change our ways as quickly as possible. The ideal audience members are far less needy as they do not require ROH staff to provide anything but the most basic services.  Should anyone object that the ROH audience does not consist of two mutually exclusive groups of operagoers and balletgoers but includes a hybrid group who go to both opera and ballet the powers that be will vehemently deny their existence and redouble their efforts to eliminate that pesky group of nonconformists as quickly as possible through the useful mechanism of the dynamic pricing policy.

Thank you for that - it'll come in useful for the Thursday matinee