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I have one spare ticket for the Swan Lake performance tomorrow, Friday 6 March, at noon. The cast is Takada and Bonelli The ticket is an e-ticket, is a central SCS spot and is £11. Please PM me if interested.

I have one side SCS ticket at £11 for Swan Lake Wednesday 11 March at 7.30pm with a cast of Osipova and Hallberg. I have one central SCS ticket at £11 for the RB Swan Lake on Wednesday 25 March with a cast also of Osipova and Hallberg. Please PM if interested.

Ticket snapped up and gone to a good home.

I have spare one central Stalls Circle Standing ticket for Onegin at ROH on Thu 27 Feb at 7.30pm. The cast is Nunez and Hirano with Takada and Edmonds. It is an e-ticket and cost £9. Please PM me if interested.

Ticket now taken.

I have a spare ticket for the RB Onegin on Monday 24 February at 7.30 at ROH. It cost £9 and is a central stalls circle standing spot. The cast is Nagdhi, Bonelli, O'Sullivan and Sissens. It is an eticket. Please PM if interested.

I have an extra ticket for the RB double bill of Dances at a Gathering and The Cellist on the evening of Tuesday 25 February starting at 7.30pm. The ticket is a central stalls circle standing place and cost £6. It is an e-ticket. Please PM me if interested.

I have the following tickets available for the coming week's Onegin performances. Friday February 7, cast Osipova, Clarke, Hayward, Ball. One ticket central SCS right. £9 Saturday February 8, cast Nunez, Hirano, Takada, Edmonds. Two tickets central SCS left. £9 each. All are e-tickets. Please PM me if interested.

I went to see a performance of this while I was in Edinburgh over the holidays. It worked very well as a family Christmas ballet and the audience, many of whom appeared to me to be annual ballet goers, were thoroughly appreciative of the evening. There was a page long plot synopsis both on the free cast sheet and in the programme, and so the audience were very clearly directed as to who was who and what was happening on the stage, particularly the change of the Summer Princess to Lexi, the pickpocket (aka Dora the Explorer). In the theatre, the plot fizzed along and there was lots of action and dancing rather than the rather stop-start nature of some more classical Christmas ballets with their divertissements. I did not feel that the company was on top form with regard to their technique in the performance that I saw as I have seen them dance much better but it is difficult time of year with many performances in a short space of time. The programme also explained that the decision to amend the plot slightly from a more traditional version led to their being three strong female principal characters each in charge of her own destiny which felt very appropriate for current times and a marked change from a number of other recently made ballets. There were a couple of issues for me with the storyline that could have been made clearer, and indeed maybe after this run as it is a new ballet this year. - in the marketplace scene in the first act, why did the Snow Queen first appear when freezing time in a long white dress and then the second time, and thereafter, was in the tutu costume from the opening scene? - in the last scene, why did the Summer Princess and the Snow Queen independently throw away the knife and ice-shard that they had been brandishing, and did they fall or were they pushed through the enchanted mirror at the end, and indeed what happened to them after they fell? The sets worked very well in the theatre. The darkness that has been referred to was not in evidence in real life but I can see that the industrial setting (think Glasgow Gorbals) for the market place and the forest in which the fortune-teller lives with the bandits may not have translated well to film, whereas the forest and the ice palace were much brighter. The design was by Lez Brotherston ably helped by Paul Pyant as the lighting designer. On costumes although Lexi/Dora could have done with losing her hat as it just obscured her face whle dancing, particularly for those higher than the stalls level, the costumes of the everyday folk seemed to me to be in keeping with where and how it was set. The red jacket over the dress for Gerda did not bother me but I did feel she might have been a bit chilly in her floaty dress and jacket when everyone else was much more bundled up for the cold weather. The stage felt full rather than over-crowded but the stage at the Festival Theatre is not enormous, certainly nothing like the Coliseum or the Opera House. I was not overwhelmed by all the choreography but as family ballet I regard it as a success for Scottish Ballet.

Ticket now taken.

I have a ticket spare for the RB Coppelia this Friday 3 January at 7.30 pm. Cast is O'Sullivan and Sambe. The spot is SCS D32. It is an e-ticket and cost £10. Please PM me if interested.

There is a ticket scheme called Friday Rush whereby a modest number of tickets at all prices are sold online at 1pm on Friday for performances the following week. There is a webpage explaining the details. https://www.roh.org.uk/events/friday-rush Tickets for popular shows will go very fast in the minutes following the 1pm release so it is best to be familiar with the website, choice of tickets etc to make sure that you are speedy in adding what you want to your basket. It is also always worth posting on the Ticket Exchange page what you want as many people's plans change in the months between booking and the performance. Good of luck with the tickets and the interviews.

All tickets now taken.

Both tickets for Dec 30 gone. Both tickets for Dec 31 still available.

I now cannot make any of the following performances of the RB Coppelia. Mon 30 Dec 2pm Cast Magri and Corrales Mon 30 Dec 7pm Cast Morera and Campbell Tues 31 Dec 12 noon Cast Takada and Bracewell Tues 31 Dec 5pm Cast Choe and Acri All Central Stalls Circle Standing. All £10 All e-tickets. Please PM if interested.

ticket now taken

I have a ticket available for the RB Coppelia at the opera house at 7 pm Sat 28 Dec. Is a very central SCS and cost £10 Cast is Nagdhi and Ball It is an e-ticket. Please PM me if interested.

Ticket spoken for.

I have a ticket for sale for the RB Sleeping Beauty tomorrow evening, Wed 11 December at 7.30pm. The cast is Lamb and Hirano. It is a central stalls circle standing and costs £11. It is an e-ticket. Please PM me if interested.

Ticket now taken

I have ticket for sale for the RB Concerto, Enigma Variations, Raymonda Act III triple bill on Wed 18 Dec at 7pm at the opera house. Concerto cast is Takada, Sambé, Naghdi, Hirano and Kaneko Enigma cast is Morera, Saunders, O'Sullivan and Ball Raymonda cast is Nunez and Muntagirov It is a central Stalls Circle Standing ticket at £6 and is an e-ticket. Please PM me if interested.

The ticket is now taken.

I have a ticket for sale for this evening 's performance of Coppelia by the Royal Ballet at the opera house at 7.30pm. The cast is Hayward and Campbell with Avis. The ticket is D26 and cost £10. It is an e-ticket. Please PM if interested.

Ticket now taken.

I have a ticket that I sadly cannot use for the RB Sleeping Beauty performance at the ROH on Monday 2 December at 7.30pm. The cast is Osipova and Hallberg. The ticket is a central SCS, is an e-ticket and cost £11. Please PM if interested.