Timmie Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Thanks so much for the code Naomi M. I’m now going to both performances next Friday. Reduced from a total of £180 to £70. Yay. I just need to find a voucher for Pizza Express and I’m sorted for a bargain day! (Can I also suggest whoever does the first review starts a new thread rather than have the reviews several pages in on this one). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily_883 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Yes, many thanks, Naomi M, for sharing the code. I'm visiting London soon for work and already have lots of ballet things planned, but £40 for a £100 ticket to see Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé in La Fille should definitely be a highlight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Just to remind people that we have an entire subforum dedicated to special ticket offers: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/forum/30-special-ticket-offers/ Putting them there rather than in the middle of a thread can help draw people's attention to them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmie Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Just to remind people that we have an entire subforum dedicated to special ticket offers: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/forum/30-special-ticket-offers/ Putting them there rather than in the middle of a thread can help draw people's attention to them Done . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penelopesimpson Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 Having paid full price (hefty) when booking opened, I do feel a tad annoyed! Perhaps it would be wise in future for the management not to schedule such long runs of ballets that have been performed recently. Endless Sleeping Beauty and La Fille, but a scant few Mayerlings. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmie Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I'd booked two performances (the ones I really wanted to see) at full price, so these bargain ones are just a nice little bonus. And I haven't seen a ballet since the Bolshoi so a nice unexpected treat! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I was a bit annoyed: because of lack of availability, I'd had to book amphi standing for a couple of performances, then had upgraded them once when something better came online. If I'd known there were going to be offers, I might have waited Oh well ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynette H Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 The Marquez performance on the 15th October is now sold out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 That's the matinee one, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Oddly enough her farewell performance on the 22nd has lots of empty seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Oddly enough her farewell performance on the 22nd has lots of empty seats. Isn't it the matinee factor (and the price structure) at work here, John? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Presumably because it's not a matinee. Odd that there are so many for Sleeping Beauty, yet so few for Fille. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blossom Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Is anyone going to the first performance tomorrow evening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamk Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Has anyone heard which cast is dancing the FGR tomorrow ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Is anyone going to the first performance tomorrow evening? Yes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Even with ticket sales not being particularly good, I'm sure somebody will be going 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Has anyone heard which cast is dancing the FGR tomorrow ? Yuhui and Valentino 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Not till next week for me I hope everyone enjoys tonight's performance will be interested to read what people think of these two dancers in Fille. I could only afford to go once this time and it was a toss up for Hayward or Choe as have seen neither in role of Lise so went for the best day in the end!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 83 posts before a run has even started must be getting to be some sort of record, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Alison, isn't Mr McGregor the undisputed champion in this category? Perhaps it is different for new works though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveclassics Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I'm going to the performance tonight and look forward to seeing everyone after a long absence. Is the terrace still the meeting place? Linda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Depends what they've been doing to it over the summer, I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 It was open last Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 You just go to roh site and put Royalballetoffer in the promo code box woohoo, thanks Blossom - just snapped up a pair of £95 Orch Stalls seats for Osipova/McRae, for £40 each! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamesrhblack Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 (edited) Good to be back at the ROH for Fille and I enjoyed the evening very much although not unconditionally. There seemed some tension in Act 1, understandably as it was the first night of the ballet season, and even some unwonted overplaying which turned to coarseness. Alain's bottom wiggling with the flute is simply crass (and it's not what Alexander Grant did originally as can be seen on the original cast recording now available) and some of Thomas' groping of Widow Simone was heavy handed indeed, literally. I was surprised to see the normally fastidious Gary Avis indulging in this. The problem with such exaggerations is that they distort the tone of the ballet. Yes, its touch is light but its emotions (not just between Lise and Colas) run deep at times and if an audience is conditioned only to see comedy even such tender moments as Lise's little bourrees en l'air as Colas lifts her through the farmhouse door raise an unwanted laugh. That Alain is genuinely hurt by the denouement is shown very clearly in the extraordinarily twisted forwards and back lunges that Ashton choreographs as Lise and Colas plead with Simone; it's not just funny. Something seemed to go awry on two of the big lifts too, one in the first scene in a dismount and a second in the Essler coda which didn't happen at all. Nevertheless, after the interval things seemed much more settled and here the affectionate relationship established between Laura Morera's feisty Lise and Thomas Whitehead's pleasingly unguyed Simone achieved moments of real intimacy adding resonance to the emotional truth of the evening. There was a lovely moment in the first act when in mutual frustration they struck the same pose in mirror form on the bench. This Lise was indeed her mother's daughter. I was pleased to see Morera in a leading role again. She can certainly bend and the neatness and detail of her placement and the sincerity of her acting are always a real pleasure to watch. Her frustration, boredom, then almost rapturous tenderness in the Act 2 mime scene were absolutely beautiful and her embarrassment on being discovered read true as well. For me, she did not, on this occasion, match the sheer technical exhilaration and brilliance that I recall from Collier, Jenner, Marquez and Nunez but her partnership with Muntagirov had true sincerity and connection. I imagine it would be hard for any Lise to dominate dance wise against the wonderful Muntagirov whose effortless virtuosity allied to long limbed lyricism and a joyously natural stage personality seemed to glow ever more brightly as the evening progresssed. Previous preferred Colases (Baryshnikov, Campbell, Jeffries, Mukhamedov, Wall) have been more compact physically: indeed, I don't think I've ever seen such a tall and 'leggy' dancer in the role but his technical command is absolute, his stage manner winning. I'm anticipating a greater emotional frisson at Marquez's farewell (nobody can say goodbye like a ballet audience and her partnership with Campbell, rather like Collier's with Mukhamedov, is one of those that I'm truly sorry not to have seen able to be developed further), but for all the niggles, it was a lovely evening from the red in the morning, whose warning comes true in the storm that interrupts the harvest festivities, to the singing exit and Alain's delight in finding his umbrella, and the orchestra seemed on notably positive form under Barry Wordsworth's always affectionate, sympathetic baton. Edited September 27, 2016 by Jamesrhblack 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Maybe more to say after more shows but, for the moment: WELCOME BACK ON STAGE ROYAL BALLET (you have been away too long!) and THANK YOU LAURA, VADIM AND TOM FOR A JOYOUS BEGINNING 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Can I just say, Paul Kay's Alain nearly broke my heart this evening? 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Can I just say, Paul Kay's Alain nearly broke my heart this evening? You can, Alison, you can....I felt the same way! He gets the balance just right. A lovely evening all round. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blossom Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Paul Kay is Alain on the DVD I have of Fille (Osipova/McRae) but his performance live last night far exceeded that on the DVD. Laura Morera made a lovely Lise, but felt that she's not quite 'wayward' enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 You can, Alison, you can....I felt the same way! He gets the balance just right. A lovely evening all round. That is so interesting Alison, Sim and Blossom. For some reason which I can't explain I didn't 'get' Paul last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 I often find that where you are in the theatre tends to have a bearing on things like that. Front amphi for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Oh, and just a reminder that Vadim Muntagirov is talking to the Ballet Association this evening 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 If anyone is going to watch Marcelino's performance (on the 6th I believe) please do let us (me ) know how it went. x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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