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The full cast list for the 60th Anniversary Celebration (August 6) is now on the website of the Australian Ballet: Harlequinade (Excerpt) Columbine: Sharni Spencer Harlequin: Marcus Morelli Larks: Lilly Maskery, Karina Arimura, Hannah Sergi, Evie Ferris , Grace Carroll , Katherine Sonnekus, Amy Ronnfeldt, Mio Bayly, Annabelle Watt, Larissa Kiyoto-Ward, Belle Urwin and Saranja Crowe Concerto (Excerpt) Amy Harris and Nathan Brook I New Then (Excerpt) QUENTIN Adam Elmes MYRTHE Jill Ogai SPENSER Callum Linnane CHUCK Brett Chynoweth MARNE Timothy Coleman CHLOE Coco Mathieson MENG-KE Benedicte Bemet ASTRID Imogen Chapman OLIVER Thomas Gannon Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Ako Kondo and Chengwu Guo Everywhere We Go (Excerpt) ROBBIE Drew Hedditch AMAR Mason Lovegrove ANDY Brett Chynoweth TESS Larissa Kiyoto-Ward TILER Dana Stephensen STERLING Yuumi Yamada REBECCA Imogen Chapman With Artists of The Australian Ballet Anna Karenina Amy Harris and Nathan Brook Watermark Callum Linnane, Adam Elmes, Mason Lovegrove, Rohan Furnell, Brodie James, Thomas Gannon, Drew Hedditch, Timothy Coleman, Jacob De Groot, Lucien Xu, George-Murray Nightingale, Benjamin Garrett, Alain Juelg, Yichuan Wang, Imogen Chapman, Coco Mathieson and Jill Ogai Little Atlas Dimity Azoury, Jarryd Madden and Jake Mangakahia Don Quixote Kitri Benedicte Bemet Basilio Joseph Caley Leading Fandangos Dana Stephensen and Joseph Romancewicz Lead Bridesmaid Jade Wood With Artists of The Australian Ballet https://australianballet.com.au/performances/international-tour/60th-anniversary-celebration

I'm not sure it's 'in full' as there's no mention of the Handmaidens and Leto. It's possible they'll still appear but I think it unlikely.

Details are, at last, on the ROH website: https://static.roh.org.uk/digital/cast-sheets/Carlos-at-50/Carlos-at-50-cast-sheet-all-performances.pdf?_ga=2.70250448.1742494446.1690371212-1332193509.1615112770 Edited to add that, according to the website, it's the same cast for all performances. A pity we won't get to see Brandon Lawrence's Apollo.

Tears came at the recent RBS performances, even in the absence of pigeons! (at Holland Park as well as at the ROH)

Work had already started when I was at the ROH for this afternoon's Jette Parker Artists' Summer Performance. Only one escalator was working. It could be used to go up to the amphitheatre level but, to go down, it was necessary to use either the lifts or the stairs. I imagine that this arrangement will remain for the Summer performances, i.e. that they'll only work on one escalator at a time.

I'm quoting myself so as to correct an inaccuracy. Until I read Sophoife's recent post, detailing the career paths of members of the Australian Ballet, I had completely forgotten that Imogen Chapman had spent a short time at Scottish Ballet before joining the Australian Ballet.

That happened to me a few years ago. I went through a long period when emails from the membership team were not reaching me and, in addition, the quarterly magazines were not being posted to me. It took some time for them to work out why this was happening and it turned out that there had been a 'data entry error' and the ROH address had been added as a secondary address on my account. This led the system to assume I was a member of staff ! Maybe you should ask them to check to see if a similar thing has happened to your account.

In the course of visiting the Wayback Machine for information for another thread, I found the following 2010 thread, describing booking experiences on the ROH website. Although many people seem to have managed OK, some of the booking experiences described (with the old website) don't appear to be any better than they are with the current website: https://web.archive.org/web/20100824033342/http://www.ballet.co.uk/dcforum/happening/7716.html

..........but it can still be found via the Wayback Machine.... https://web.archive.org/web/20100726114950/http://www.ballet.co.uk/dcforum/happening/7757.html Edited to add that this thread also provides a link to Ismene Brown's review for the Arts Desk: https://web.archive.org/web/20110312005746/http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1810:royal-ballet-school-matinee-roh&Itemid=27

This post reminded me of another Lilac Garden performance from that particular graduate year, 2010. This one took place in the Linbury and also featured William Bracewell, this time with Imogen Chapman as his partner. I remember finding her performance extremely moving and have, since, followed her career with interest. On graduation she joined the Australian Ballet, where she is now a Senior Artist (the equivalent of a First Soloist). I'm delighted to note that, in the forthcoming ROH performances of Jewels, she is cast in Emeralds (second couple) on August 3, 4 and 5 (matinée) performances. Edited to add that Grace Carroll is first couple in the above performances. She is a corps de ballet member who is also a recent RBS graduate (2021).

No, I've just checked her Year 11 class list and 8 female students and 10 male students, from her Year 11 class, were accepted by the Upper School. Yes, she was the only White Lodge student from her year to be accepted into the Company. Four RBS students were taken into the Company that year, Claire, Elsa Goddard, Kevin Emerton and Sergey Polunin

Does your email provider have the option of a list of ‘safe senders’? Most do. If they provide this option, all you need to do is add them to this list.

For the last two years (i.e. the years in which a recording has been made of the performance) there has been a short period during which the Friends of the School have had internet access to the recording.

A friend has just let me know that the programme and cast list are now on the ROH website: https://static.roh.org.uk/digital/cast-sheets/Royal-Ballet-School-Summer-Performance/RBS-Summer-Performance-cast-sheet-16.07.23.pdf

I've just checked an old RBS programme. The class lists, in these programmes, used to have an asterisk by the names of the students who, before joining White Lodge, had been Junior, Mid or Senior Associates of the RBS. Caspar, Beth and Blake all have asterisks - i.e. they've been associated with the School for more than 8 years.

Yes, she's a Second Year student.

I've sent you a PM as I'm not sure it's OK to name students on a public forum.

Katie was Amour in the June 20 performance of Don Q. https://static.roh.org.uk/digital/cast-sheets/NextGenerationFestival2023/NGF2023RBS20June-v3.pdf

I just checked the website and October 28 evening is now showing as Takada/Acri. Maybe a 'clerical error' caused the website casting to be changed?

She’s going to Semperoper Ballett Dresden.

If it helps, I seem to have saved the link to the price maps for all opera and ballet productions for the 2018/19 Autumn season. The ballets for that Autumn season were Mayerling. Bayadère. a mixed bill and Nutcracker https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.roh.org.uk/for/pdfs/seating-plan-price-mapping-tool.pdf?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018_apr_pricing_widget_friends&utm_content=version_A&emailsource= Edited to add that I believe 2018/19 was the first season where the productions didn't all have the same price bands. I'm pretty sure that, until then, all productions had shared the same price bands. Having said that, the prices within those bands had, of course, varied from production to production.

and, as I've already posted, the restricted view front side amphitheatre seats are still showing at £52 (£32 for Nutcracker!) Edited to add that I imagine it was quite easy for them to change the £26 band to £14 as this price applied mostly to stalls circle standing and upper and lower slips. The £52 and £67 bands apply to seats in a number of areas of the House and it would be really complicated for them to change only some of these areas. The email I posted above was sent to me as a reply to an earlier email I'd sent to the Friends' office. I got the impression that they only sent it to Friends who'd complained to them by email. i.e. it was not received by a friend of mine who's a Premium 2 Friend and who had complained by telephone rather than by email.

They were always £36. It's the front side amphitheatre (restricted view) in rows B-E which have gone from £34 for Beauty and Cinderella to £52 for Don Q

Just received from the Friends: We have recently made a small number of mis-steps, brought to our attention by our valued friends and patrons, with regards to ticketing for Don Quixote. Upon reflection, we agree that the price increases for a small number of tickets have been disproportionately too high, and so have made the decision to change our approach for certain Don Quixote seats and standing places. We will be re-imbursing those who have already paid more for the small number of tickets affected through account credit. We would like to thank those who have brought this to our attention, and apologise for any inconvenience caused. Edited to add that there's no sign that they've reduced the restricted view amphi seats. They still appear to be £52.

I’ve just noticed another large price reduction in an area which has a full view of the stage. The seats in the amphitheatre, in the central part of row H, were £91 for Beauty and will be £67 for Don Q. To be fair, for Beauty, they were then in the same price band as row G (which is now £83) and are now in the H to N price band. Nonetheless, it’s another case of higher prices being considerably reduced.