SPD444 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Not very pleased with the RB this morning. Signed on nice and early to get tickets for Frankie and James Insight Conversation in the Clore only to find it was already sold out. Some point being a Friend+ if they sell all the tickets beforehand to their wealthier patrons. Bolshoi is expensive too. Not a good start to the day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mummykool Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 My husband did the booking this morning. He got signed in and got put in a waiting room with 11 people in front of him.He didn't have to wait long for access, got some tickets in the basket only for an error to appear that told him he needed to sign in again. He was not best pleased thinking he would now be in a huge queue (as back in the good old days) but he signed in again and got access to tickets straight away. All the amphi seats we usually get had already gone for the Bolshoi performances we wanted and nothing at all was available in the main amphi for opening night of the triple bill. As SPD444 says, some point in being a Friend+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 nothing at all was available in the main amphi for opening night of the triple bill. Students only in the amphi for that performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balletfanp Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Not very pleased with the RB this morning. Signed on nice and early to get tickets for Frankie and James Insight Conversation in the Clore only to find it was already sold out. Some point being a Friend+ if they sell all the tickets beforehand to their wealthier patrons. Bolshoi is expensive too. Not a good start to the day. Same thing happened with me with an Insight evening a few months ago. Waited for general booking to open without much hope and found they had kept 30 tickets back for general booking, and I snabbled one. It pays to check! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 What are the Bolshoi prices? Any information re Bolshoi casting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coated Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 £10-£145, SCS at 15 The seating plan shows the prices (with 'Superseats', ouch) https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.roh.org.uk/visit/pdfs/BOLSHOI-2016-seating-plan.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A frog Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Strictly speaking it's the Spring season, but in case some didn't know (based on how many tickets are still left it might be the case), Draft Works went on sale today, apparently for all friends level at the same time. This year they're centred around Giselle, http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/draft-works-in-the-clore-reimagining-giselle-by-joshua-beamish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 £10-£145, SCS at 15 The seating plan shows the prices (with 'Superseats', ouch) https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.roh.org.uk/visit/pdfs/BOLSHOI-2016-seating-plan.pdf It may be my eyesight or the colour differentiation on my screen but it looks to me as if SCS is GBP20 rather than GBP15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I booked SCS for a handful of Bolshoi performances and can vouch for the fact that it was £15. As for the Insights, I am a Supporting Friend and there was nothing left even when I booked (and that In Conversation was the very first thing I looked for at the moment booking opened). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Yes I also got Bolshoi SCS for £15. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Yes I also got Bolshoi SCS for £15. Then it must be my eyesight. Thanks everyone - a relief even if there may be no SCS left by the time I get to book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 There are usually some return tickets for Insight events available a few weeks before the event, I am increasingly relying on those, and it has worked well a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPD444 Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 Susan Fisher, Customer Services, replied to my email saying:- "Our Insight Programme is managed by our Learning and Participation team which means that tickets are shared with schools. The event is also held in a small space so sometimes it sells out very quickly to our higher level members. We intend to record more and more event and make them available through our website." Given it says that cameras will be filming maybe they will make it available, which is better than nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 It may be my eyesight or the colour differentiation on my screen but it looks to me as if SCS is GBP20 rather than GBP15. There are tickets for £20? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coated Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Hmm, given the comfort of those seats, I might prefer a recording.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPD444 Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 You are right, Coated, they are very hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPD444 Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 As I write this tickets have come available for Frankie &James conversation on 8th June in the Clore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaret Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Tried this morning - no tickets now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Tickets for the Insight event on 11 May for the new Wayne McGregor ballet "Obsidian Tear" currently available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissBalletFan Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I am very interested to go to London to watch the Bolshoi performances. Am i right to understand that as a 'normal' person trying in April that I have a slim/no chance of getting tickets? I am just trying to set my expectations for when the sale opens in April. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 You should be perfectly fine - unless you're after the cheap tickets, that is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) I agree with Alison. There should be tickets available for all performances as long as you are not looking for really cheap seats. The Bolshoi tour is managed by the Hochausers and as it is a purely commercial venture all the ticket prices are considerably higher than those for Royal Ballet performances. The only new ballet is The Taming of the Shrew. It will be interesting to see whether the streaming of that ballet encourages ticket sales or whether it will have put people off. The company has brought both The Flames of Paris and Le Corsaire to London before. The production of Le Corsaire is a reconstruction which plays the score in the order in which it was intended to be heard. It is, in large part, based on the Stepanov notation It is the reconstruction of the dream sequence which makes it worth seeing. This will be the second time that Ratmansky's reworking of Flames has been brought to London and the third time that this production of Le Corsaire has been seen here. It is difficult to predict which ballets will sell out quickly but I think that the fact that Swan Lake and Don Q are regular features of every Bolshoi tour indicates that the Hochausers regard them as good commercial choices. Edited March 12, 2016 by FLOSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissBalletFan Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Great! Thank you to both FLOSS and alison for your quick answers. I can now plan my summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Might I ask a similar question re:ticket sales thus far for the upcoming McGregor, MacMillan, Wheeldon bill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Might I ask a similar question re:ticket sales thus far for the upcoming McGregor, MacMillan, Wheeldon bill? There are currently masses of tickets available in all parts of the house for all performances but no availability showing at the moment in Stalls Circle Standing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 By way of encouragement to any of you who missed out on tickets for the Hayward/Hay In Conversation event in June or for RB In Rehearsal a week on Monday, I'm happy to report successful acquisition of returns for both of them this afternoon... this after I'd been checking a couple of times a day for weeks without success. When I completed my transaction there was one other available seat remaining for the In Rehearsal, but this vanished so quickly (as in within 2mins) that I didn't even get the chance to post about it here as a tip-off. Good luck to anybody still hunting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Thanks for bumping this thread, Ruth - I didn't have time to look for it on Tuesday. My booking experience went smoothly, for once (not that I had much to do!), although the only Stalls Circle/Balcony standing space I saw was for the RBS matinee. Unfortunately, I was unlucky getting seats for the first-cast performances of the triple bill, i.e. first and last nights, so if anyone has any spares they don't want do think of me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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