bangorballetboy

17 minutes ago, Sim said:

I think I have missed this….what’s a relaxed performance please?

For people who may have issues attending a standard performance, e.g. people on the autistic spectrum.

I have SCS D26 available for Anemoi/The Cellist on 25 October - face value is £9, please PM if interested.

I think the simple answer is the proportion of the general public that are interested in ballet is much, much smaller than it used to be.

4 hours ago, annamk said:

So yesterday afternoon there were many unsold stalls seats for the Don Q matinee tomorrow and now they have all gone.

 

I guess the RoH must have given them away to friends and family ? 

They have not "given them away"...

31 minutes ago, Richard LH said:

I find it  strange that there are far fewer seats showing available for O'Sullivan/McRae next week, on the evening of Tuesday 17th Oct, than for their performance tomorrow evening (Friday). 

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Any possible explanations?   

To pick up on a previous thread of thought on this forum, it is Lise Davidsen at Wigmore Hall on Friday!

11 minutes ago, FionaM said:

I’m trying to take advantage of the 25% offer and discover each of 20,21,23 October is showing zero availability except boxes.   Must be a computer error.

 

On hold to box office now …  to book manually and to tell them to wake up their website team. 

 

 

Normal availability is showing for me. Worth trying a different browser?

4 minutes ago, Richard LH said:

E.g.Viola Bella?

I think you mean Pantuso...    😇

This ticket has been taken.

I have SCS D34 available for Don Quixote on 16 October.  Face value is £14, please PM if interested.

If it's an iphone, you can use your Harry Potter spells with Siri - lumos to turn on the light and nox to turn it off again!

13 hours ago, Fonty said:

Instead of churning out the 3 MacMillan dramatic ballets in rotation, let's have some of his one act ballets. 

 

You mean like the triple bill of MacMillan one act pieces later this season?

10 hours ago, LinMM said:

Incidentally does anyone know how to access a full cast sheet from the actual website ( on an iPhone!) 

Earlier today I could access it from the performance page but now it’s Oct 4th showing so wondered how to access the cast sheet once a performance is over so to speak. 
I usually access from the email the ROH send you when you’ve booked a performance about “your up and coming performance” and scroll down and can get casts from there but as not going until 11th a bit of a time to wait. I’ve never worked out how to do it from their website!! 

I find the quickest way (from a standing start) is to google “ROH cast sheets”, though I frequent the page so much from my work computer, I now only have to type R O…

I do find this chat around the ages of the ladies in Mayerling fascinating.

As I think I have posted before, here are the ages of some of the dancers as of the first performance (14 February 1978):

• David Wall (Crown Prince Rudolf) - 31
• Lynn Seymour (Mary Vetsera) - 38
• Merle Park (Countess Mary Larisch) - 41
• Georgina Parkinson (Empress Elizabeth) - 39
• Michael Somes (Emperor Franz Josef) - 60
• Wendy Ellis (Princess Stéphanie) - 26
• David Drew (Bay Middleton) - 39

1 minute ago, art_enthusiast said:

Referring to the higher priced seats here. They tend to be more affordable in other countries.

The post to which I responded said absolutely nothing about higher priced seats.  

3 hours ago, MildConcern said:

But I agree that it is a sad state for our flagship opera house when it works out on par - or perhaps even cheaper - to fly to Munich or Zurich for the same pleasure. 

I paid £25 for my Rheingold ticket, not sure I could fly to either of those cities for that price!

On 18/09/2023 at 09:55, alison said:

Can anyone say whether Roy's Joys ever did make an appearance, BTW?  I stopped trying after it didn't appear on the second Tuesday.

I saw Roy's Joys on 13 September (evening performance).  

1 hour ago, capybara said:

Does anyone know anything about the presenter for the Insight? I haven't seen (or heard) of her before. She was fine except that it seemed a little as if she wasn't familiar with the ballet itself.

She was one half of the ROH's "in conversation" with Lauren Cuthbertson last year.  I assumed she had been chosen for that by Ms Cuthbertson.

1 minute ago, trog said:

Karis is teaching at the DanceXchange (or Fabric or whatever it is now named) in Birmingham. Far cheaper than the Maldives.

But not as much in the way of sun or sandy beaches...

44 minutes ago, Richard LH said:

From the cast list I wonder if Annette will be dancing as Mercedes, with Lukas B B as Espada and  with the 6 other gentlemen as his matador compadres??

Well, that was my thought too!

I don't think the ballet-loving members of the public are the intended audience for the video!

I was rather hoping that Wheeldon would start working with some new creative collaborators. 

Just to be clear, AA in Wigmore Hall isn't really the front row, it's the seats to the side of the stage.

Wigmore Hall seating plan

2 minutes ago, Blossom said:

Interestingly it was only possible to buy a single ticket for Autumn season. I don't know if this was at all booking levels though. I wouldn't wait for a pair to come up.

I was able to book two tickets for this event.

7 minutes ago, Out-the-other-side said:

If we are going to be pedantic, several is more than 3 

As a professional pedant, I would say that statement is not entirely correct.  Whilst several is more than 3 in the same way a square is a rectangle, most dictionaries say that several is more than 2.

2 hours ago, Ondine said:

 

That's what I thought, though presumably the Sarasota Ballet will want to keep its Patrons sweet so this visit is a PR exercise I think.

I think it's a fund-raising exercise...