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  1. Mary
    The Prince Gremins are getting younger by the minute!
  2. Mary
    The same happened to me last time. Never having been to one I was not sure how disappointed to feel.
  3. Mary
    Then there's Juliet's desk where she writes to Romeo and Rudolf's desk where he keeps his drugs, fire-arms etc, and the vile gaoler's desk. Bit of a desk fixation, definitely.
  4. Mary
    It certainly makes it harder to accept that Tatiana would not, very definitely, have put her Onegin obsession far behind her. I see the point, indeed. Gremin last night certainly did look very handsome. However, the choreography in that beautiful marriage pas de deux in act 3 shows the couple as happily married.... content, in a charming and mutually affectionate way -( I love it, it is such a novelty in ballet!) but not rapturous/passionate etc. I think that's the point isn't it, rather than the relative age or attraction of Onegin and Gremin. She has found happiness, but not passion. The two are not necessarily the same thing ( ah the wisdom of age)- and the passion is re ignited when Onegin throws himself at her feet. That's how I see it anyway.
  5. Mary
    it's really interesting, as usual, to read other peoples' views here. I have often encouraged other people to post their views even if they are minority ones and likely to be unpopular- so must practise what I preach and admit, I didn't think the Bracewell/Takada pairing was as good last night as I anticipated. I felt the first pas de deux, which is indeed a very beautiful one, especially moving when you've seen the ballet before, looked a bit under-rehearsed. I know William Bracewell is a huge favourite on here and I agree his acting abilities are very strong, and he has great presence on stage - but I do occasionally feel the dancing is less precise and the line less fine than I would like. For Lenky's duel solo, the emotion is all in the choreography and I think the more restrained performance can actually be more moving. Akane Takada is a lovely dancer I always enjoy seeing and I have admired her in this ballet much more on previous occasions. I hope to see them again - because clearly others disagree with me and I very much respect the views above.
  6. Mary
    Well, here's my starter for 10: after much anticipation - I was rather disappointingly underwhelmed by Act 1 ..quite a lot seemed a little....messy - to my eyes and indeed ears.. Was it just me? But having seen Onegin many times this didn't seem to me RB's Onegin at it's very best . I do not mean Nunez and Clarke, who were on assured form I thought. But Act 3 !! Nunez seemed to dig deep in herself to give us a tormented soul torn agonisingly in two and portrayed in the most superb dancing with a powerful and heartfelt performance from Reece Clarke. Wonderful to experience. Look forward to hearing what the forum thought.
  7. Mary
    Photos are lovely anyway. I had almost forgotten how much I like the Onegin costumes. Beautiful ball dresses. Gary Avis looked so suave in his sash and epaulettes.
  8. Mary
    All ballet looks unnatural. I would much prefer it if we could focus on the performances the dancers give (whether comments are positive or negative) and not details of their appearance, whether it might be looking 'aged' as someone said about another dancer recently (aren't we all) or having messy shoes - or whatever. Whatever they have to do to give the performances they give us, is all right by me.
  9. Mary
    Lovely photos, brought a tear to my eye !
  10. Mary
    When I have these technical problems these days I just call a 12 year old. Mind you a 5 year old would probably do.
  11. Mary
    Sounds awful, hope you have a nice quiet recovery day today.
  12. Mary
    Many of us in other parts of the country would use different expressions, with varying numbers of asterisks, (you have to realise Liverpool people are famously polite, Sophoife😄)
  13. Mary
    🤣Thanks for giving me a laugh to start the day - and a happy memory of Trumpton.
  14. Mary
    Wishing good luck to Steven McRae, back on stage today - and hoping to see him with the lovely Sarah Lamb, a marvellous Cinderella, next week, despite the cold, snow,wind, rain, train troubles etc. I hope some forumers will be there to report back despite the cold, snow, wind, rain,sleet, train problems etc etc.......
  15. Mary
    Same here- I kept ticket and cast sheet in the programme for the relevant ballet, only buying a new programme with the new production....and when the cast sheets slowly disappeared I just lost heart a bit as the thought of trying to start a new system and marry the two systems up was too complicated. Yes, I could print them off..maybe I will get it sorted out this year.
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