bangorballetboy

Day tickets (£20) are available through the todaytix app. I'm 5'4 and sat in the front row stalls, near the centre, and was fine. Avoid the next few rows after that. See theatremonkey for more detailed info on other areas of the auditorium.

Except it won't, because if that vote is lost, there will be a motion of no confidence in the government, which will pass and that leads to a general election.

I have SCS D26 for 20th available and I may also have the same for 18th.

You got me all excited that Ricardo Cervera was coming out of retirement...

I'm sorry to say that it's not a criterion for promotion as to whether or not you in particular have heard of a dancer. I think the director of the Royal Ballet bases his decisions on more artistic reasons. Some of us have had the pleasure of watching Takada grow from a very technically talented dancer into a very well rounded Royal Ballet dancer who works well in a number of styles. Her promotion last summer was, IMO, thoroughly deserved. Whilst you may have meant no offence, I think it's pretty rude to make fun of someone's name (particularly when you don't even spell it correctly).

By "new", they mean someone who has been with the company for 8 years...

I have D26 (SCS) available for Jewels on 20 April (eticket). Face value is £9. Please PM if interested.

I have D26 (SCS) available for Jewels on 12 April (eticket). Face value is £9. Please PM if interested.

If you're in the Met's one, click on Manhattan, delete that and replace with "London". Works for me on IE.

I understood them to be (grown) cygnets, that have darker plumage, rather than black swans.

Dolly Parton

As I would expect, as she hasn't left the company. She was on leave of absence to dance in Dresden.

Ballet Imperial - 2006. Taming of the Shrew - 1977 (well before my time). It's now in the BRB rep, so I wouldn't expect RB to try it again.

My lunch-date and I thought so!

The full press release can be found here.

Not completely on topic, but I wanted to mention that the RB new season press release says that there will be five graduates from the RBS on the Aud Jebsen Young Dancer Programme next season.

I The press release says: "For this new production Scarlett will remain faithful to the original 1895 production by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov and brings a fresh eye to this enduring classic." It's still very much Scarlett's production, so far as I know.

Personally, I'd much rather see Monteverdi performed in the Roundhouse. The venue is significantly more suitable for early music of this type, whose orchestration is drowned in a theatre the size of the ROH.

I attended the press conference earlier on behalf of balletcoforum. O'Hare stressed the importance of being a national company within a national theatre. I took this to mean being a flagship company, together with the work done nationally, particularly in the learning and participation sphere (see the press release for details on National Nutcracker). He also stressed the importance of collaboration and pointed to work with new choreographers and the MacMillan celebration. He noted that the existing RB sets and costumes would be provided to the other companies, except for La Baiser de la fée, which isn't in the RB rep but will have new designs by Gary Harris. He then spoke to Deborah, Lady MacMillan about Kenneth's legacy and they both said how delighted they were about working with the other companies and how excited the other companies were. On the trip to Hull, O'Hare said he was very happy that the RB performance will be (re)opening the refurbished New Theatre. There is much excitement within the RB regarding the new Swan Lake. It is progressing well and O'Hare has seen the designs and says they are "pretty special". O'Hare also stressed the importance of the dancers working with "his generation", who still have a link back to MacMillan and Ashton. He mentioned the recent work done with Viviana Durante and Darcey Bussell and that Leanne Benjamin is currently working on Mayerling. Carlos Acosta will return as guest principal repetiteur. In response to questions, O'Hare said that Cinderella will be back and hinted that there may be new designs. He also said that he has no current plans to bring in any new principals from outside the company and he is concentrating on developing the current talent within the company. I'd mention that the critics I was speaking to after the PC were all generally positive about the forthcoming season but I only spoke to a handful of people.

I've added the dates in the quote above.

It's because it's at the beginning of the 2018/19 season. Cast includes: Siegfried: Stefan Vinke Fricka: Sarah Connolly Mime: Gerhard Siegel Hagen: Stephen Milling Gutrune: Emily Magee Wotan/Wanderer: John Lundgren Bruennhilde: Nina Stemme Siegmund: Stuart Skelton Alberich: Johannes Martin Kraenzsle Loge: Alan Oke Hunding: Ain Anger Freia, Third Norn: Lise Davidsen

Thanks John. Saves me doing it on here, now I'm at the computer. However, there are only two shows of the 2nd programme in the MacMillan celebration - 24 Oct and 1 Nov.

Well, I sat in the Clore earlier for an hour and a half and my eyes kept being drawn to the leather...

Yes, they did. I'd also mention that the RB production has (with permission from the Trust) different sets and costumes to those used by NYCB.

Just to set the hares running, I see that Polunin is listed as a guest principal on the ROH webpage