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Thank you @Bruce Wall and @bridiem for your glorious reviews. It was my second and last Cinderella of this run and such a different experience from the first for all the reasons you both articulate so beautifully. If this cast were dancing again I'd go in a heartbeat. Act 2 was sublime - I confess that I left at that point on a high. I enjoyed the sisters immensely this time for exactly the reasons you both described. As for the divine Fumi Kaneko and Will Bracewell: they are so special, individually and above all together.

YAY ! FANTASTIC NEWS !

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I do ! DUH

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Unusual for a company to have to cancel a run of performances due to the number of injuries ...... https://kglteater.dk/en/whats-on/season-20222023/ballet/jewels

There is a resale site you can try. I used it to sell some tickets recently myself. https://www.operaballet.nl/en/your-visit/visitor-information/ticket-exchange

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Hello, I am waiting for someone to confirm. I don't know the cast.

Sorry but I think your post @Finnbarr is completely unreasonable. People are entitled to comment on any cast they've seen, this forum has never been about only commenting on the casts that are not reviewed by the papers. Anyway as far as I can see Fonty has written mainly about the Lamb/McRae cast. Nor would I call Fonty's comments about the production destructive.....

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I went to Turandot at the RoH last night. It's many years since I've seen it and I was really struck by what seems to be the difference in attitudes towards cultural sensitivities within the opera and ballet senior management ranks of the RoH. For reasons of cultural sensitivity 1) the Chinese dance in the Nutcracker was re choreographed and 2) rumours circulating for some time now suggest that the Royal Ballet will no longer perform La Bayadere. And yet there on the RoH stage in all it's cultural appropriation and orientalist fantasy over the top grandeur is Turandot, complete even with yellow faces ........ I feel depressed that I find myself increasingly at odds with why some things are apparently ok to show on stage and others are not. Manon, which is expected to be performed features a horrific and deeply uncomfortable to watch rape scene. I know the argument goes that these things happen but does that make it necessary for us to watch it on stage ? When someone mentioned Maddaddam as a probable for 23/24 season further up the thread I looked it up and checked out the reviews. I was dismayed to read in The Globe and Mail review that the ballet "features one of the more horrific scenes you will ever see onstage, and it defies a call for choreographers (most of whom are men) to stop staging gang rape in ballet." How can these depictions of violence towards women be OK and yet the character of Alain in Fille is somehow unacceptable ?

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I’m baffled as to why the Royal Ballet chose to spend what was presumably a significant amount of money reviving this. It is so so much less than Fille - I could weep. The score is difficult, the story is not well told, the choreography is less appealing than other Ashton ballets and the stepsisters are appallingly unfunny - someone should tell them it’s the 21st century, not the 1950s.

I agree with all this and it's not only Nunez but her partnership with Muntagirov. Together they are the top draw for many people in classical ballet - you only have to look at the ticket sales for their performances - theirs are the only sold out ones without any offers. I think Monahan makes himself look ridiculous by suggesting Hayward and presumably "the always interesting Alexander Campbell" should have been first night cast.

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I've found that if I google the headline of the FT article I can nearly always get behind the paywall.

Maybe they ran out because what happened to me, happened to many other people too. I don't often buy them and I wasn't planning to for this but it was such a fantastic programme and such superb dancers I rushed straight out at the interval to get one.

While looking at those additions above I see Cesar Corrales has been replaced by Matthew Ball on 29th March - w Yasmine Naghdi.

I just noticed on the RoH website that Nicol Edmonds replaces Marcelino Sambe as The Prince - dancing with Akane Takada - for all his dates in April.