Bluebird

• 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

3 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

Looks like it is Apollo in full, which I'm pleased about, not having seen it before. 

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.

1 hour ago, Lizbie1 said:

 

Every time!

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.

On 21/07/2023 at 09:27, Bluebird said:

 

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.

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.  

15 minutes ago, bridiem said:

I haven't been receiving Friends' e-newsletters in the last few months, even though they confirmed last week that I'm subscribed to receive everything. (I wouldn't even have realised I wasn't receiving them if it wasn't for this forum.) Doesn't inspire confidence.

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

7 minutes ago, alison said:

 

I think I saw him dancing with Wood - does that make sense?  It was that performance which made me comment about how I thought we'd found the "new"/"next" Ed Watson (I was talking from the dramatic perspective, but interestingly he's gone on to take on a number of roles Ed used to perform) - but if it was 2010 it must have been on the old Balletco site.

..........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

12 hours ago, capybara said:

I would add William Bracewell in The Lilac Garden (2010) alongside Angela Wood (now, at last, getting name roles with ENB) to the list of School performances which not only 'registered' at the time but are significant in relation to where former RBS students are now.

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).

16 hours ago, Ondine said:

Wasn't First Soloist Claire Calvert the only one from WL in her year to make it to the upper school?

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.

16 hours ago, Ondine said:

Or was that into the company?

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

8 minutes ago, FionaE said:

 

That’s where my emails from Dutch National Ballet often, but not always, end up.  I’ve no idea how to fix this.  I would be grateful for a tutorial from someone who knows.

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.

12 minutes ago, SPD444 said:

 

Are you sure about the availability of the recording to Friends of the School? I am a Friend but never been offered a copy, I thought it was made available to parents of students but that was all.

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

17 hours ago, NikkiB said:

Beth and Blake have also been with The Royal since year 7.

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.

32 minutes ago, LinMM said:

I wonder if Katie might be too young to graduate this year? 

Yes, she's a Second Year student.

32 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 

Does anyone know which of the headshots in this article belong to the 6 dancers joining the RB? It would be nice to know what they look like to try to spot them in the ensemble next season. (The headshots are clearly not in the order of the list of names.)

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

1 hour ago, LinMM said:

Whoops! I’ve just caught a video of a dancer at RBS called Katie Robertson and I have a feeling I may have been muddling her with Beth Bartlett!!
They were both dancing in Don Q on the 20th so unless they look very alike I’m sure now it could have been Katie’s performance as she had a solo part too. 

Katie was Amour in the June 20 performance of Don Q.

https://static.roh.org.uk/digital/cast-sheets/NextGenerationFestival2023/NGF2023RBS20June-v3.pdf

3 hours ago, capybara said:

The first casting I saw listed Takada/Acri for the 28th October evening. Now it’s showing as Naghdi/Ball. Does anyone know why there has been a change? Takada/Acri now have the 11th November only.

I can come up with some theories but not facts.

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?

12 minutes ago, LinMM said:

Did it say where Milde is going. 

She’s going to Semperoper Ballett Dresden.

1 hour ago, JohnS said:

I’m hoping to have a good look at the Autumn seat maps and also look back a few years when price maps were published and where there was a much more consistent pattern. I think it would be good to see how ticket prices have increased for ballet and opera, either as a result of inflation or whenmseats have been moved to a higher price category. 

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.

23 minutes ago, JohnS said:

I’m not sure what other changes have been made - it looks as if Amphitheatre F38 which @bridiem raised and which I’d flagged in my email is still £67I

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.

23 minutes ago, JohnS said:

I don’t think the Friends email problem has yet been sorted as I haven’t received this evening’s email which @Bluebird posted above. All very odd as Membership assure me my email is correctly showing on their list.

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.

6 minutes ago, oncnp said:

 

I'm seeing restricted amphi view (M67, 68, L67-70, 45-48) as £36.00. Maybe they're still tweaking?

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.

Edited to add that there's no sign that they've reduced the restricted view amphi seats.  They still appear to be £52.

15 hours ago, JNC said:

 

what is completely unforgivable is for the more expensive tickets to have DECREASED at expense of the more reasonable/lower price ones!

 

(I’m not talking about the overpriced restricted stalls circle seating discussed but the prime stalls seating)

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.