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  1. annamk
    From the RoH this morning Onegin on 12 February 2020. We are contacting you to let you know that, due to illness, Natalia Osipova has been replaced by Marianela Nuñez as Tatiana, and Reece Clarke has been replaced by Guest Artist Roberto Bolle as Onegin.
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    The RoH have confirmed the cast change - Nunez and Bolle.
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    Tickets now spoken for.
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    In the Clore Studio. F7 & 8 £20 each. They are e tickets. Message me if interested and post here to say you've done so.
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    Kobborg is clearly part of this programme which reminded me that the bill he put on at QEH many years ago was superb so maybe this could be too. I will certainly go if she invites Friedemann Vogel to dance Armand ! She could do with a big name to help shift the 100s of unsold tickets (it looks a disaster at the moment) and I'm not sure he's well known enough here to make a significant difference.
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    That’s interesting I’d like to see other casts, I really hope they’ll bring it London. In the premiere run the critic Kuznetsova did not like the 2nd and 3rd casts so much.
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    I found it hard to believe that these broadcasts have been happening for 10 years. I'm enormously grateful to the Bolshoi for their participation, it's such a pity others don't offer them - thinking the Mariinsky and maybe NYCB just for starters. Maybe the demand isn't there. Sorry mods, I guess this comment belongs in the other thread. Anyway, I enjoyed this performance so much. Very happy to see mime restored to a Bolshoi classic ballet, even if like others, I didn't entirely follow all of it. As I understand it, this Giselle doesn't have a weak heart and dies of a broken heart ? So how does Berthe's mime fit with that. Any enlightenment out there ? For me the performance of the leads was pretty much faultless. Not only are they blessed with the perfect physiques for classical ballet and look divine together but they dance at the highest level. I was particularly impressed with Belyakov's partnering yesterday. As for characterisation, I thought Smirnova had a charming a quiet mischief about her in Act 1 and is her more natural ethereal self in Act 2. Belyakov gave us a passionate, besotted Albrecht. Considering how young these two are, this could be a partnership to treasure for years to come. Elsewhere too, the dancing was very impressive: the peasant pdd from Kochleva and Putintsev, Vlashinets Myrtha. There were some lovely touches in this version: the Act 2 pdd which ends with Albrecht kissing Giselle softly on the forehead and she kneeling with her head in her hands and the choreography of the cross and the Wilis circling around Albrecht. The only negative was the audience - how can people think it's appropriate to clap along to Giselle's melancholy Act 2 solo (in time as well ? I can understand people want to show their appreciation but do it at the end - it's not Don Quixote ! )
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    Maybe they can bring this version on tour and leave the Grigorovich at home Not really sure why you think this Ratmansky version is not interesting to watch with different casts. I read a few reviews which said that the principals played the parts differently.
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    Watching the mirror pdd last night I was thinking that although it was pretty good technically it had nothing like the electricity that was between Cojocaru and Kobborg, they set the bar so high. The Stuttgart recording with Vogel was a masterclass.
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    I am sorted for this thank you.
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    Thank you FioneE. So glad someone has posted about Donnelly, I wasn't able to make the performance so was really keen to hear how he did. He's had very few opportunities in soloist roles, his last big one was The Invitation in which I thought he danced neatly with musicality and gave a thoughtful and intelligent character portrayal.
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    If anyone has a spare for 7/2 or 29/2 I'd love it please. Or I could offer a swap for 29/2 SCS D44. Please message me if you can help. Anna
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    I was at the cinema (no transmission problems) and I thought it was an excellent all round company performance - casting up the variations really does show even though one understands younger dancers must be given opportunities. The corps danced with commitment and musicality, the Cavaliers were synchronised. the soloist roles all well taken - the exception being the Lilac Fairy where I think the dancer can get away with the role with either a technique that can surmount the challenge of the variation or a beneficent radiance but when they have neither ..... Bonelli was a generous, secure partner who put huge effort into his well delivered solos. But the evening belonged to Fumi Kaneko who was simply dazzling. It was a triumph for her to to deliver a performance of such quality having stepped into the shoes of a principal, at the last minute, in one of the most important and challenging roles in the rep for a live relay. Brava.
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    I would like to have seen Magri's Lilac this evening as it was lovely, and surely it would have made more sense, Storm-Jensen had yet another unsuccessful attempt at the variation yesterday evening !
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    D6 no longer available.
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    D7 is taken.
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    E-tickets. Message me if interested and post here to say you've done so.
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    Thank you for posting, I really enjoyed watching it, especially the Bournonville
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    Maybe Clarke only just started rehearsing when those photos were taken ? To be honest I think we are lucky to get the advance casting info we do from the RoH - many companies don't announce casting until a few weeks before the performances - Paris and Stuttgart to name just two.
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    I asked the box office on Saturday afternoon and this is what they told me ..... Muntagirov started rehearsing Onegin and he realised that he was not ready to dance the role, but he hopes he will dance it at some point in his career. That's it. It can't be a secret and as anyone can ring the box office and ask them I assume it is ok to post it here.
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    Saturday afternoon matinee: Nunez and Muntagirov gave a performance of such easy assurance and such effortless refined virtuosity, it was impossible not fall under the spell of their combined perfection. Magri’s Princess Florine variation had all those same qualities (she needs to do Aurora next time). Bluebird Corrales impressed too and he looked happy to be sharing the stage with her. I haven’t seen McGorian’s Carabosse for a while and it was a pleasure to watch such a class act. Gasparini, Sasaki and Donnelly gave a neat and musical account of the pd3. I wish the Lilac Fairy had been more widely cast in this run- I’ve seen Storm -Jensen nearly every time. Maybe it’s because she’s young and inexperienced but her dancing is somehow too small and contained to convey the munificence of the Lilac Fairy. This would matter less if she was in command of the technicalities but she hasn’t really conquered the challenges of the variation.
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    I am sorted, thank you.
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    If anyone has a spare SCS I'd love to buy it.
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    I thought there was a notification couple of days ago (I can't find it now) of illness in the Cojocaru cast for this evening and replacement by Takahashi/Frola ......
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    Depressingly memory fades so it was fun to revive some great, some good, some not so good and some terrible memories and I'm sure I've left some out. Performances and performers that made me hold my breath ...... Vasiliev/Osipova Bolshoi Don Quixote RoH 2010 - never bettered, never likely to be Corrales/Hayward/Ball/Sambe 2019 Romeo & Juliet - the freshest, finest, most passionate partnership and all round performance for many years Bonelli/Morera Mayerling 2017 - all the more superb for it being unexpected Takada/Hay Sleeping Beauty 2017 - an impeccable Grand pas Vogel/Badenes Mayerling Stuttgart new production 2019 - choreography brought to life vividly by new production and the most magnetic Rudolf imaginable Shklyarov - in many performances but above all as Solor in Bayadere Mariinsky 2015 Cojocaru - Manon ENB 2018 - pathos in Milton Keynes on a wet Saturday afternoon Smirnova/Chudin - Diamonds pdd Bolshoi at RoH 2013, a breathtaking Russian rendition and Smirnova only 21 Liam Riddick in Richard Alston’s work New works Akram Khan’s Giselle Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy & After Plato’s Symposium Crystal Pite Season’s Canon Lowlights Polunin & Osipova in the execrable Pita’s Run Mary Run Too many of the RB new works Scarlett’s Sweet Violets, Hansel & Gretel & Frankenstein Wheeldon’s Strapless Cherkaoui’s Medusa McGregor’s Multiverse Acosta’s Carmen Pretty much everything by Alastair Marriott
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