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I have a central Stalls Circle Standing ticket that I now cannot use for the evening performance of Cinderella on Monday 24 April at 7.30 pm at ROH. The ticket was £12. The cast is Osipova and Clarke. Please PM me if you are interested.

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I have a spare ticket for this Friday’s, 17th February, RB performance of Sleeping Beauty at 7.30pm. It is a central SCS and cost £12. The cast is O’Sullivan and Macrae. please PM me if interested.

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I have a spare standing ticket available for the Pam Tanowitz double bill in the Linbury at the opera house on Thursday 16 Feb at 7.30pm. The ticket is in the circle and one of the central standing places with, I think, a good view. It is 60 mins long. Two live pieces and a film of another brief piece. Please PM me if interested.

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I have one spare standing tickets for the Tanowitz performance in the Linbury on Tuesday Feb 7th. It is D24 and was £6. It is one of the standing spots behind the central block of the back row of the circle and has (I think) a good view. Please PM me if interested.

I was at yesterday evening’s performance of Nutcracker with Hayward and Campbell as SPF and her cavalier, and Sae Maeda and Joseph Sissons as Clara and Hans Peter. I enjoyed the feeling of Christmas that seeing Nutcracker always brings but the evening didn’t quite take off for me. There had been a matinee in the afternoon which never helps the dancers. However, there were some charming performances from some of the minor characters. Philip Moseley gave a peerless performance as the grandfather. He is able to bring such a very believable feeling of age to his character. And Kristen Macnally as the mother also hit exactly the right note for me. Giacomo Rovero was a very caring dancing partner to Clara and gave her some wonderful lifts. But the highlight of the evening for me was Joseph Sissons, particularly once he turned into Hans Peter. His initial solo was a delight with his arm movements filling all the music. I am a fan. I felt that Sae Maeda as Clara did better in the second act where there was less acting to be thought about and she danced charmingly. I am sure she will settle into the fist act with time and practice. The pairing of David Yudes and Joonhyuk Jun, each a very good dancer for their role in the Chinese dance, had the challenge of being very different heights and I struggled to understand why they were cast together. i know that the Arabian dance has been amended for current sensibilities but I still feel a little uncomfortable with its essence and also feel the loss of the pink trousers of the axed male duo. The two costumes left are mostly cream and look a little insipid on their own. For me, neither Ms Hayward’s nor Mr Campbell’s strengths can be highlighted in their roles in this ballet. But the audience around me were very enthusiastic in their applause for both. This was my one and only Nutcracker this season and what I did particularly enjoy was the array of younger dancers being given opportunities in the smaller roles.

If anyone had SCS that they didn’t need for this evening’s Nutcracker, I would love it. please PM me if you can help. 🤞🤞

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The ticket for the 29th is taken. The ticket for the 21st is still available.

I have tickets for performances of Mayerling that I can no longer make. They are both D27 which is very central SCS and are £12 each. Monday 21 Nov is the cast of Hirano with Hamilton and Mendizabal. Tuesday 29 November is the cast of McRae, Takada and Naghdi. Please PM me if interested.

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I have a ticket for the Friends Rehearsal of the Diamonds Celebration programme that I now cannot make. It is for Wednesday 16 November at 11.30am. The ticket is Stalls Circle B42 and cost £24. https://www.roh.org.uk/seatmap?performanceId=51301 Please PM me if interested.

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I have a central SCS ticket available for the evening performance on Wed 23 November. £12. The cast is Ball, Morera, and Magri. pleaee PM me if interested.

I have a ticket available for the Ballet Black double bill in the Linbury at the Opera House on Thursday 20 October. It is a standing place in the circle behind the central seats and is £6. The double bill is Say it Loud and Black Sun and is 90 minutes with an interval. Please PM me if interested.

The Scottish ballet production of Mayerling, premiered earlier this year, is a shortened version, made with the permission of Lady Macmillan, to be suitable for touring and for a smaller company. The sets and costumes are different and the frontispiece is a black and white photograph of the hunting lodge at Mayerling which is very effective. I saw three casts in Edinburgh and Glasgow earlier this year. It is 2 hours long including an interval. Both the birthday party and the hunting scene are cut but everything else is pretty much the same. It works very well but what is lost is the stultified weight of the court and all its formality that Rudolf struggles with. But if you want a pacy production, this is it.

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I have one ticket for the opening night of Light of Passage on Tuesday 18 October at 7.30 pm. It is SCS D32 and cost £9. Please PM me if interested.

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Matinee ticket taken. The evening still available.

I have one spare central SCS ticket, at D26, for the 1pm matinee cast of Mayerling, McRae, Lamb and Nagdhi. I have one spare central SCS ticket, at D36, for the 7pm evening cast of Hirano, Osipova and the peerless Morera. The tickets cost £12 each. Please PM me if interested.

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