San Perregrino

1 hour ago, Roberta said:

 

I somehow missed that, is this new? Though I suspect most people would prefer a more recent performance. 

It’s the first screen that pops up when i click on ‘What’s On’. Been there for long enough for me not to think of it as new.

2018 version is the original cast recording inc Nuñez/Muntagirov/Campbell/Gartside so a potentially large audience. 

2022 version is also available to stream to subscribers. 
I’m not aware of any other recording. 

1 hour ago, jmhopton said:

I thought you could just subscribe for a month for the streaming and didn't havevto take out an annual subscription. I'm sure I've done that in the past. Isn't it £7.99 for Friends and £9.99 for non-friends.

it seems that there is another alternative. To rent Swan Lake 2018 for 3 days rather then subscribe. Not sure if it’s the same price or different as I’m already subscribed.

SWAN LAKE (2018)

RENT FOR THREE DAYS

Rent this performance for £7.99 or subscribe to Royal Opera House stream to watch all our ballets, operas and episodes.

30 minutes ago, JNC said:

I wholeheartedly agree with this! As someone who no longer lives in London the streams are something I’ve become increasingly interested in, whether that’s at the cinema or I probably wouldn’t pay for ROH’s monthly stream and get “locked in” to a monthly contract but I’d like to see the option to pay £x amount to see one-off performances via their streaming service. 

If you don’t want to take out a subscription, you can currently pay a one-off £7.99 to stream the 2018 version of Swan Lake. 
 

• ONLINE ONLY
• BALLET AND DANCE

STREAM SWAN LAKE (2018)

24 minutes ago, Roberta said:

We have a recent thread specifically on this issue.  ODILE IS NOT A SWAN and no it is still not a 'Black Swan' PDD!  It doesn't say so in the programme either, thankfully! 

There is no need for you to  ‘SHOUT’ at me in capital letters. I am merely reporting what was said in Birmingham on Thursday night. And, if you read what I wrote you’d see that I didn’t say that it is “a ‘Black Swan’ PDD!” , I wrote that it has commonly become known as the black swan. 

24 minutes ago, Roberta said:

Also when the costume commonly became black I believe was far later than the 1920s.  The 'original' costume design (Russia) was rainbow coloured!  Though there is mention of blue at the first performance. 

Again I am merely reporting what was said on Thursday evening. 
Personally I don’t give a fig if it was blue, rainbow, pink or gold when it was danced in an era long before I was conceived or at what point black became commonplace. Perhaps in a new version it will be scarlet with polka dots. 

To add to what I’ve already written above, conductor Paul Murphy, IIRC, in his introduction to the “Black” Swan pas de deux said that the piece of music used was originally in Act 1. The original character was Von Rothbart’s daughter, a sorceress in her own right, directed by him to cast a spell on Siegfried. And, that the costume/tutu was blue until the 1920s when a ballerina wore black after which it commonly became known as the black swan. 

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3 hours ago, Emeralds said:

Yu Kurihara, not Kurosawa, but thank you for the review, @San Perregrino. Fingers crossed I can attend it next year. 

 

Darn predictive text again! 

Here’s a new one on me at least….

The website is suggesting that tickets for the sold out Friends Rehearsals of Carmen & Andrea Chénier will be available on Friday Rush!

Just an observation that June is a month in which to be outside in the evenings to make the most of any summer weather especially for the young audience that the ROH targets. Also there are a lot of other productions competing for peoples’ attendance and money. 
e.g. I’ve got tickets to 4 tennis tournaments in June and, if the weather is clement, these will take precedence over being inside to watch ballet. Going to more than one of each Ashton & Sarasota is my rainy day plan B. 

1 hour ago, LinMM said:

I always like to judge something for myself anyway not rely on critics views ….some of whom do not have that much experience of ballet and dance either as observers or doers. 

This ✔️ 

I’d also add that, for me at least, to assess a full work created for stage on the basis of a video clip or hearsay might not be the best way to make a decision about whether or not to see it. If I had followed this route there is a whole slew of Ashton and MacMillan works I would have missed out on.

In respect of this version of Inger’s Carmen it showcases some of the outstanding dance talent currently residing at ENB which is reason enough to see it more than once. 

24 minutes ago, Sim said:

Bonjour Amelie et bienvenue au forum!  
 

Many thanks for your post.  😀

@Sim could you please change the title of this thread so that it is not date specific? Many thanks 

10 hours ago, Tony Newcombe said:

BRB’s main main full length ballet next year is Cinderella. After this evenings Music and Dance offering Swan Lake has to follow the year after. TonightYu Kurihara was absolutely phenomenal as Odile in the Black Act Pas de deux. Lachlan Monaghan’s Siegfried didn’t stand a chance. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This young lady is something very special

it was a quality evening.

Carlos Acosta introduced the evening with a huge thank you to everyone for turning up and, barring a few upper gallery seats, making the event a sell out. He followed that with an impassioned plea for people to continue to buy tickets and see as many events and shows as possible to keep the Arts alive in Birmingham now and for future generations.

Céline Gittens was poetry in motion as the delicate white swan. Yasiel Hodelin showed the promise of technical greatness that is being murmured about in the ballet corridors. 

Miki Mitzutani and Max Maslen were perfectly precise and shone as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Prince. Yu Kurosawa had definitely shot an arrow through Lachlan Monaghan’s heart, he was beyond smitten. The beautifully executed fouettés brought the house down as a fitting finale.

A big shout out to the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by a wonderfully entertaining energetic Paul Murphy for their stand alone pieces particularly the Capriccio Italien.

7 hours ago, alison said:

I was wondering if anyone apart from me has received the above?

 

"Performance: Ticket protection

Performance date: 31 March 2024

Performance start time: 11.58pm

Performance end time ..."

 

I don't seem to be able to respond to it and ask them.

i get a weekly newsletter on Sundays, the last dated 24/3. Nothing else.

Suggest you start a new email, get the address from the website rather than hit the ‘reply’ button  and copy and paste the text into it. 

2 hours ago, Dawnstar said:

I do wonder why they have to announce it the day after public booking opens.

2 hours ago, capybara said:

The timing is, of course, not untypical of the ROH.

The cover email that was sent out with the casting included the following paragraph:

”'Please find attached the latest casting for Ashton Celebrated which begins in two months’ time. I do apologise that these are reaching you later than we had planned; due to a number of factors the casting has been in flux, so we did not want to give you incorrect information.

You have received this email because you are a Friend of the Royal Opera House.

3 hours ago, FionaM said:

I’m guessing Matthew Ball is missing because he is guesting in Hong Kong in a new Swan Lake by Yuri Possokhov running 31/5 - 9/6

 

In the text it says half price for local students and senior citizens. I wish we had the latter reduction in London. 

Just now, Mary said:

Just realised though the absence of James Hay, so my elation is a little dampened.

 

Might he still be dancing though not cast in a named role? 

2 minutes ago, Emeralds said:

I  think most people who know these things say they're technically not influencers but experts who are top of their field

Sportsmen & women and ballet dancers can be at the top of their field of expertise but IMHO  if they’re posting about e.g.  a scented candle then they’re no different from any other ‘influencer’. 

9 minutes ago, art_enthusiast said:

 

Definitely, it's sneaky how they do that, automatically adding it to your basket. I always prompt myself to check if it's there and remove it, but of course when you're rushing you don't have the time. I think Sadler's Wells do it too but it's a bit less.

the ROH is not alone in doing this but is one of the few organisations that doesn't also charge a Booking Fee.  it seems to be common practice among many arts organisations these days to add a suggested donation and let the purchaser decide to leave or remove it.  some are a flat fee, some a %age of the total ticket price.  other organisations impose a 'building levy fee' or 'building restoration fee' which cannot be removed.  many organisations including, Sadlers Wells, charge a booking fee which the ROH doesn't as yet and which is more than the £3 asked as a donation by the ROH. the advantage to all being that, if you qualify and have ticked the Gift Aid box, the ROH receives an additional amount from the government over and above your donation. a clever move IMHO.

I found much to enjoy last night both in terms of choreography, orchestration and narrative.  Minju Kang was stunning in the lead role of Carmen (a femme fatale par excellence) alongside Rentaro Nakaaki as a deeply tormented Don José and James Streeter as an arrogant Zuniga.  If you're a fan of Erik Woolhouse then his Torero is not to be missed.

I am already looking forward to seeing it again with other casts.

14 minutes ago, Sim said:

Can someone please explain to me what an 'influencer' actually is?  I keep hearing about them but where do they come from and what do they do?  Are they paid by companies to wear their clothes/perfume/shoes etc. and then tell their followers how fabulous such products are?  Is it just advertising dressed up as another word?  

saying this with tongue in cheek, IMHO, "an influencer" is a Pied Pier, a leader of lemmings.

I'm minded of King Louie singing "I Wanna Be Like You' to Mowgli in The Jungle Book.

1 hour ago, capybara said:

So where do audience members (many of whom obviously have difficulty standing and others with non visible medical conditions) wait until the auditorium is open (which can be as late as 20 minutes before a performance)?

The Linbury Foyer is often cordoned off; the velvet seating under the Stalls Circle is inaccessible. That leaves the toilets - and, yes, I have sat down in the Ladies many a time.

 

if the 'picnic populace' is herded downstairs then that would, at least hypothetically, free up the space upstairs. 

Perhaps, on nights when it is ‘dark’ the Linbury bar area could be designated as a public picnic area in the same way that museums have a discrete area hidden in their bowels for school groups and families to eat. 

Also, if you go on an opera night , the consumption of food brought from home seems to me to be much more visible all over the ROH including on the stairwells and landings. At a recent Flying Dutchman I almost tripped over a couple picnicking on a stairwell and narrowly avoided becoming the Flying Englishman!. 

There’s one long time visitor to the ROH who arrives with a bag full of food and wine purchased elsewhere that is brought out and enjoyed with their party of friends in plain sight of staff and other patrons both before a performance and in the intervals.
This struck me as being odd when I became a regular at the ROH several years ago but it continues to this day.

If I was minded to eat and drink before or during a show I would take this example as a precedent for it being ok to bring my own comestibles and bagging a table. 

Experience, however, has taught me that eating or drinking close to a performance spikes my blood sugar and makes me doze off regardless of how much I want to watch the action onstage. An expensive nap in so many ways! and so now I eat and drink elsewhere so that I can fully enjoy a performance.