Bluebird

Ticket sold.

May 11 7pm Swan Lake (Hayward/Bracewell) Front side amphi aisle seat D36 £35.

If interested, please send me a PM and also post here.

7pm performance sold.  1pm still available.

(Title edited as 7pm performance no longer available).

A friend can't use the SCS ticket I bought him for this coming Saturday, May 11, 1pm

1pm Sasaki/Sissens D43

If interested, please send me a PM and also post here.

1 hour ago, Sim said:

That's certainly not how it looked last night.  Last night it was like a tiny face on a large sheet, that was it.  

It did look like that from the amphitheatre. Maybe it looks different from the stalls circle?

2 minutes ago, San Perregrino said:

I wonder if we’re looking at the same information, have posted a link to the table I was looking at above. 

I think you must be right. For some reason, the table was a bit distorted on my phone. When I follow the link above, it looks completely different!

1 minute ago, San Perregrino said:

Assuming SCS is the lowest price in the section, I read the table as being £14 for Alice & Cinderella, £12 for Maddaddam and £8 for Encounters. Whilst identical for ballets, Opera productions seem to have two price bands for SCS depending on if it’s Stalls Circle or Stalls Circle Side. 

The lowest price is for amphi standing and the slips nearest the stage

1 minute ago, Blossom said:

 

Definitely some oddities in the lower tiers of pricing but I am not an expert in working out what refers to what…

Unless they’ve made another ‘misstep’ (or missed out one of the price bands) it looks as if SCS will be £22 for Alice and Cinderella.

3 minutes ago, Sim said:

Oh?  That's the only one I can remember having been disastrous with the advance casting.  What did I miss, or, more likely, forget?!!

The MacMillan mixed bill. Casting was announced long after priority booking,

edit: simultaneous posting with Lizbie 1

13 minutes ago, The Sitter In said:

October - Requiem (MacMillan)/A Wedding Bouquet (Ashton)/Les Noces(Nijinska)

November - Sylvia (Ashton)

November - Scènes de ballet/Devil’s Holiday Variation and pas de deux/Beauty Awakening pas de deux/Thaïs pas de deux/Five Brahms Waltzes/Voices of Spring pas de deux/Daphnis and Chloë (Ashton)

December - Cinderella (Ashton)

December - Swan Lake (Petipa/Ivanov)

January - La Fille mal gardée (Ashton)

February - Manon (MacMillan)

March - Rhapsody (Ashton)/Pavane pour une infante défunte(Wheeldon)/Duo Concertant/Symphony in C (Balanchine)

March - Tombeaux(Bintley)/Enigma Variations(Ashton)/The Rite of Spring (MacMillan)

April - Ondine(Ashton)

May - The Dream (Ashton)/Three Songs - Two Voices(Bruce)/The Rite of Spring

June - Les Biches(Nijinska)/Symphonic Variations(Ashton)/A Month in the Country(Ashton)

 

2024/25 makes me weep…

 

 

 

Wasn't that the season when they celebrated the Ashton Centenary? That's why they programmed so many Ashton works.  in fact the Scènes de Ballet mixed bill was televised as 'Ashton 100: Fred's Steps'.  Happy days!

My friend can't use the ticket I bought her for the Mariko Sasaki/Joseph Sissens Swan Lake debut at the 1pm performance on May 11.  Before returning it to the Box Office, I thought I'd check if anyone wanted it.  It's  front side amphi, E36. The view of the very side of the stage is slightly restricted but, given that the adjacent seat is priced at £55, it's  good value at £35.  If interested, please send me a PM and also post here.

5 minutes ago, MJW said:

As I don’t follow BRB I don’t have a clue about the cast at all! Where are the cast sheets in the SW website?

Tried to paste link but didn’t work. Sorry!

https://www.brb.org.uk/downloadable-castsheets

edit: success!

On 18/03/2024 at 16:50, Timmie said:

 

I’m booked to see Nadine Sierra but planning on getting another ticket. Any thoughts on Liv Redpath as Lucia? Or stick with another Nadine Sierra? I did like Sierra very much in L'elisir d'amore.

If you're going to get a second ticket, I can highly recommend Liv Redpath.  She sang in yesterday's Friends' General Rehearsal.  It was the first time I'd heard her sing and I was really impressed.  I felt she gave a superb performance and am delighted that I have a ticket for one of her shows. (I'll also be seeing Nadine Sierra).

2 hours ago, Emeralds said:

I was always told (even last year) by the box office staff that there was no credit voucher system like the one at ROH - maybe things have changed now. (The website today does confirm they can offer a voucher certificate.) 

Your Box Office contact must have given you the wrong information.  I've just checked back in my emails and found that I was sent a credit voucher as early as September 2020.  

Edited to add that the system you describe (in your earlier post) would apply to a ticket returned less than 24 hours before a performance. 

40 minutes ago, Rob S said:

 

You mean there's a way we can?

If you return your ticket at least 24 hours before the show, they will give you a credit voucher for the value of your ticket (minus an admin fee).

Just received from the ROH re Swan Lake casting:

The following cast changes have been made:

Friday 12 and Thursday 18 April, 7.30pm

Anna Rose O’Sullivan is replaced by Mayara Magri as Odette/Odile.

Saturday 20 April, 7pm

Ryoichi Hirano is replaced by Reece Clarke as Prince Siegfried.

Saturday 27 April, 1pm

Anna Rose O’Sullivan is replaced by Mayara Magri as Odette/Odile.

Monday 29 April, 7.30pm

Ryoichi Hirano is replaced by Reece Clarke as Prince Siegfried.

Saturday 4 May, 1pm

Ryoichi Hirano is replaced by Reece Clarke as Prince Siegfried.

37 minutes ago, Emeralds said:

Clarke was quietly partnering Cuthbertson, Yanowsky, Nunez and a number of principal ballerinas and first soloists when he was still a First Artist and Soloist for a numbet of seasons - dancing the lead male role in Sleeping Beauty, Sylvia, After the Rain, The Two Pigeons, Manon, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet (prepared it but couldn't dance Romeo due to injury). 

Also, he danced the lead role in Ashton‘s Symphonic variations when he had barely been one year in the Company:

https://rohcollections.org.uk/performance.aspx?performance=29425&row=115

Ticket returned to Box Office

Having just managed to get a cheaper seat for Alex Campbell's last performance of Manon next Friday, March 8, I now have a spare ticket.  Before returning it to the Box Office I thought I'd check to see if anybody wanted it.  It's in the Upper Amphitheatre, R67 (one in from the aisle in the centre block) and is a full view seat costing £49.  If interested, please post here and also send me a PM.

12 minutes ago, Geoff said:

Is it me or has the Ashton Insight for Friday 31 May dropped off the calendar? Has any Friend been able to book for it yet?

We’ve been told (by the box office) that booking for this event doesn’t open till March 26.

17 hours ago, PeterS said:

I don’t know about Plymouth but Sadlers Wells booking was never on the cards for today (unless perhaps for BRB Friends?). The Wells has its own schedule for its next booking period as yet unannounced. 

BRB Friends' booking for Sadler's Wells always opens on the same day as the priority booking for Sadler's Wells Members.  The date has not yet been announced.  BRB Friends' priority booking for Plymouth is, however, now open.

3 hours ago, alison said:

 

More like around the turn of the century, surely?  It was a trigger for Tamara Rojo leaving ENB and joining the Royal Ballet.

They were still doing the Macmillan Rite of Spring in 2012.  I've even managed to find a balletcoforum thread on the programme in which it was featured ( Beyond Ballets Russes): 

Edited as I forgot to provide the link:

Another edit as I hadn't read further down the thread and now see that Emeralds had already mentioned the 2012 run.

15 minutes ago, Emeralds said:

Stix-Brunell had joined Wheeldon's independent dance company Morphoses (alongside ballet stars like Wendy Whelan who still danced with their main companies like NYCB) while a student. She was cast by Wheeldon to be Alice and Perdita (and was also in the first cast of his Within the Golden Hour when it transferred from SFB) but she danced Princess Rose in MacMillan's Prince of the Pagodas as an understudy for an injured colleague. 

Yes. By deleting my original post, I also deleted the additional information that, in both cases, Stix-Brunell was chosen to replace other dancers - I believe she was replacing Nuñez as Alice and Cuthbertson as Princess Rose.

Edit: simultaneous posting with Bangorballetboy!

1 hour ago, Richard LH said:

Surely this is unusual though....I can't immediately think of any other Artist recently dancing two major roles like this, (with Clara) in only their second full year in the Company.

Original post deleted as memory confused me.  Wheeldon did choose Stix-Brunell as Alice when she was only 19 but Prince of the Pagodas was NOT his ballet. It is, of course, a Macmillan ballet. Senior moment!  Apologies to Blossom and Richard LH who have already 'liked' my inaccurate post! Nonetheless, Stix-Brunell did dance the principal role in Prince of the Pagodas when she was only 19 -  i.e. she danced two principal roles (Alice and Princess Rose) in her second year in the Company

53 minutes ago, Bluebird said:

For The Winter's Tale, however, they've gone back to the Manon pricing structure. 

https://www.roh.org.uk/seatmap?performanceId=54813

 

This is good news for those who sit on the bench seats in the stalls circle (seats in the bench seats in row C are £49 and the cheaper seats in row B are £63).

I omitted to compare these prices to the Swan Lake prices for the same seats.  Stalls Circle Bench Seats in Row C are £49 (compared to £75 for Swan Lake) and in  Row B are £63 (compared to £118 for Swan Lake)

This is why I commented on how good this news was for those who like to sit in these seats!

53 minutes ago, Bluebird said:

It is, however, bad news for those who like to sit in the front side amphitheatre seats.  These will be the same price as they were for Manon - £49 (compared to £35 for Swan Lake) 

Stalls Circle Standing and all Upper Slips seats are priced at £14 - again, the same pricing structure as that which was used for Manon.

I also omitted to compare the price of the good seats in the Upper Slips to the price of the same seats for Swan Lake.   £14 for The Winter's Tale and £23 for Swan Lake.  Therefore the return to the Manon pricing structure is also good news for those who like to sit in the Upper Slips.

I haven't checked the rest of the prices.  Apart from those who like to sit in the front side amphitheatre, are any other readers  suffering from the return to the Manon pricing structure?