barrybounce

In general terms the sensible approach is to do only old things that are out of copyright (and it's a taken a few years since he last time we licensed something before we've wanted to try again).

Err... Not sure how to respond to that! Our Swan Lake and Don Quixote were really pretty reasonable, so the question here is definitely about the licensing!

For licensing reasons?

It would be La Fille that we'd be after (and in the UK anything other than an Ashton / Lanchberry based version would be unlikely to go down well with audience).

I've tried to! I've sent e-mails, tried the phone number (disconnected) and left messages via the ROH telephone number. I'm wondering if it's something anyone has managed to do and that will just take time, or a hope I should give up on.

Hello! Has anyone ever tried / managed to get rights for an amateur production of the above? I'm wondering if it's something that would take time or something they're just not going to let us do!

What a small world it is (Hello thewinelake)! And if when you start Googling a question what turns up is a post by the person that commented to you about the matter... then I guess you're not going to find an answer! I have seven programmes for said ballet, two in languages without definite articles, three "The Sleeping Beauty", and two "Sleeping Beauty" (both companies from countries with no definite article touring the UK). In the course of my travels on Google I was also delighted to discover that composer Erkki Melartin also wrote music for a ballet Prinsessa Ruusunen just a few years after the more famous version, and of course as he was Finnish that doesn't help either