bangorballetboy

For someone accusing another of arrogance, there are a number of inaccuracies in your post. The encore was Tosca, not Turandot. It's Aldeburgh. The comment about Pears was that "he had a particular type of voice" not that he had a high vocal register. Kaufmann is most certainly a tenor; his range is higher than that ascribed to the tenor range by the usual academic sources (Harvard, Yale, Grove, etc.) - there are recordings and videos that confirm this. Whilst Kaufmann has a darker sound and quality, that doesn't make him a baritone. I've heard Kaufmann sing bits of Grimes and it's perfectly fine, with no stretch or breaking. His voice is also darker than Pears, but then so is Stuart Skelton's and his Grimes is one of the most fantastic things I have heard recently. And just to note, I'm not a superfan (I usually let Mrs. BBB have my share of the ticket allocation is there is a limit).

I don't really mind what people shout in adulation, so long as they don't whistle!

This ticket is available on a "pay what you want" basis.

Insiders are the 16-30 category (was Overture in my day) - see here. No idea about Senior...

I have a spare ticket for the 8.30 p.m. performance tonight at the Printworks, Surrey Quays (unreserved, face value £15). Please PM if interested.

I looked into spending Christmas this year in NYC, Chicago, Miami or San Francisco. The only ballet I could find in any of those places was the Nutcracker (though admittedly in Sarasota, it's a circus Nutcracker).

The girls were doing gymnastic exercises; the boys were doing ballet exercises. IIRC

I thought tonight's insight evening was excellent and I was enraptured throughout (which is not always the case).

Six significant cast changes that I'm aware of. Lamb & Kish are long-standing injuries that the company had hoped would be sorted by now. Sambé's injury (like Cowley's) is from pre-season rehearsals, as is Yanowsky's knee (and she was only rehearsing one ballet...). I don't know about Watson but the other five have, so far as I'm aware, nothing to do with a "range of choreographic styles.

She was indeed. Here is the cast list from the premiere: Prologue Ria Peri Prologue Jacqui Tallis Prologue Wendy Ellis Prologue Sally Inkin Prologue Rosemary Taylor Prologue Anita Young Prologue Susan Lockwood Prologue Jennifer Jackson Prologue Artists of The Royal Ballet Winter Vergie Derman Winter Marguerite Porter Winter Donald MacLeary Spring Lesley Collier Spring Michael Coleman Spring David Ashmole Spring Wayne Eagling Summer Monica Mason Summer David Wall Autumn Anthony Dowell Autumn Jennifer Penney Autumn Wayne Sleep Finale The Entire Cast

Ticket now spoken for.

I have SCS D26 for sale for RB's Alice tonight (Cuthertson/Bonelli/Watson/Morera/McRae). Face value is £10 and it's a eticket. Please PM if you're interested.

I think it's from Eleve Dancewear (but don't quote me on that)

Yes, she was Moth in The Dream and has been a lead flower and lead card in Alice. On stage a few times after her first child, but not (so far as I can remember) after her second. She has been undertaking ballet mistress activities though. Julia Roscoe (White Lodge & Upper School). AJYD last season, but had danced with the company many times as a student (particularly memorably as the young girl in La Sylphide).

That's what I would say too.

After some classic show tunes!

Not quite sure I understand the Ballet de Monte Carlo Sleeping Beauty but I'm thinking I want to see it in full!

I was interested to see the young boys doing barre work between the barre and wall. A good way of working on alignment, methinks.

Was it last year or the year before we had the request for grand jetés? That was rather fun. If you don't want to take part, then don't. No-one is forcing you to. And if you can't manage a minute or two of watching people making the most of what the day is actually about, then go and make a cup of tea or something.

I see no suggestion of xenophobia here. Let's not stir tensions when there's no need to do so.

The Facebook page says it starts at 1100 (which makes sense if it starts with class).

RB section starts at 1100 BST.

Exactly.

What an extremely rude thing to say. And I'd hazard an educated guess that the reason for a largish number of tickets suddenly coming available is not as Floss suggests.

They're better at painting, I think...