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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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Thank you for posting, I really enjoyed watching it, especially the Bournonville

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.

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.

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 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 ......

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

As others said, totally deserved and entirely overdue !

No more Coppelia for me and I miss it already Baffled as to why it has been off stage for so long, huge plaudits and thanks to Kevin O'Hare for reviving it. IMO Franz is another role (after Romeo) that Corrales has really left his mark on. Of the casts I saw Magri/Corrales was easily my favourite. Corrales acts convincingly, partners as well if not better than most of the more established and more experienced dancers and his solos were simply explosive (only Vadim is superior in his effortlessness). Corrales presence on stage energised the company in a way that most other Franz's simply did not. Magri was an excellent match for him. Her Swanilda was also a favourite - she is entirely secure technically with lovely comic timing and great character projection. In truth the Swanilda casting was an abundance of luxury: of the casts I saw I would have been very happy to see any of Nunez, O'Sullivan, Magri, Takada multiple times. They all carried off the tricky choreography with absolute aplomb and oodles of character.I don't know why, perhaps I was having an off day, perhaps it was her partner, but the only disappointment for me was Morera. I enjoyed the Dr Coppelius of Mosley and Whitehead very much. I regret not catching Kaneko as Aurora although the performances of Choe and Calvert had a lovely quality but I did not enjoy Hinkis performance - I can't find any poetry in her dancing. Most of the Prayer performances I saw were danced by Pajdak and she did have a few wobbles as someone pointed out earlier, nonetheless she has a quality that captures the spirit of prayer and her port de bras is a thing of beauty.

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I went to Stuttgart to see the new production of Mayerling and the performance with Vogel/Badenes is my highlight of the year, of quite a few years in fact. If I hadn't seen it then I would have chosen the Corrales/Hayward/Ball Romeo & Juliet for the same reasons as penelopesimpson above.

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I didn't hear about the bush in advance and I didn't notice it at all !

A delightful Beauty last night. I enjoyed nearly all of the individual fairy variations. Gina Storm-Jensen was more secure in her finishing in the Lilac Fairy variation than I have seen her previously but I still feel she lacks an expansiveness and warmth - even though she smiles beautifully. The Cavaliers unfortunately were back to being messy. Joe Aumeer certainly has an impressive jump but I wish he would concentrate more on synchronising with his colleagues. I was very impressed with Anna-Rose O’Sullivan, for only her second time in the role she was remarkably good. Not only is her dancing secure, but she has the confidence to carry the performance. In terms of very picky detail, her Rose Adagio may have been slightly less secure than her debut but the solo after the Rose Adagio was extremely well finished. She has absolutely blossomed in the last year. James Hay is a magnificent classical dancer. I know he’s not tall but on the too few occasions I see him in princely roles I find he dances them so perfectly that I am baffled as to the limited rep he has. He has a beautiful line, he dances way beyond his physical size, he is the only dancer to come close to Muntagirov in terms of technical excellence and he clearly cares deeply about showing us the character and respecting his partner. The grand pas was appropriately grand: danced with confidence, security and synchronicity.. I was slightly distracted because bizarrely someone's phone (a couple of rows in front of me) started speaking the result of the GE exit poll but not clearly enough to know what it was. Unbelievable. Ben Ella and his sisters, Isabella Gasparini and Mariko Sasaki, gave a fine and speedy rendition of the pd3. Yuhui Choe and Luca Acri danced a somewhat small (the opposite of James Hay dancing beyond his physical space) Florine and Bluebird. A shout out for Ashley Dean and Leo Dixon as the White Cat and PiB. They've really brought what always felt like a boring character dance to life. Itziar Mendizabal has made Carabosse her own. Fabulous.

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