Riva Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 There is now a short video ‘trailer’ on the production page showing some lovely detail of what look to be stunning costumes http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/swan-lake-by-liam-scarlett 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Have just booked for Naghdi and Kish on the 11th June ....Amphi seat but about ten pounds dearer than usual for Row E!! Still it's the end of a row which I like and with a nice bar to hold on to if need be and not squashed in as can be when no Arm rests etc. I did look at Osipova Ball performances but they were just too expensive ....the ones left ....or had restricted view. I may try for a standing ticket for these two if one should become available down the line. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 I just bought a ticket for the Osipova/Ball matinee on June 15th for £38 amphi row H which must have recently become available as they were sold out when I tried to book last week and I was forced to buy an evening performance which isn't good when you have to pay to stay over. There is still one seat available next to me at this price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assoluta Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 On 4/11/2018 at 14:20, Riva said: There is now a short video ‘trailer’ on the production page showing some lovely detail of what look to be stunning costumes http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/swan-lake-by-liam-scarlett I found the video trailer ludicrous, giving absolutely no idea about the production itself, not even a glimpse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, assoluta said: I found the video trailer ludicrous, giving absolutely no idea about the production itself, not even a glimpse. I don’t think you’re the target audience for the trailer. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 The Swan Lake casting for Madrid is now on the ROH website: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/casting-confirmed-for-the-royal-ballets-tour-to-spain-2018#comment-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Such a shame that Madrid won't get to see Yasmine Naghdi in the role of O/O. I guess there weren't enough performances to fit her in, and as she is the most 'junior' principal she is the one left out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, Sim said: Such a shame that Madrid won't get to see Yasmine Naghdi in the role of O/O. I guess there weren't enough performances to fit her in, and as she is the most 'junior' principal she is the one left out. Their loss, for sure! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, zxDaveM said: Their loss, for sure! Indeed it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 Sponsors always seem to want 'big names'. Well, I can give them one: YASMINE NAGHDI 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandra Newman Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 At first I was also surprised not to see Yasmine Naghdi cast to dance O/O during the Madrid tour but it is such a very short tour and there are only six performances. Obviously the RB must show Principals such as Osipova, Nunez, Muntagirov, McRae, Cuthbertson, Lamb and Bonelli to the Madrid audience. Nunez/Muntagirov get 2 performances whereas the others just 1 performance thus Naghdi, being the youngest Principal, clearly has "to pay the price" for the limited amount of shows. At least here in London we have all her O/O performances to look forward to! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 I wonder whether she might also be double cast in, say, the pas de trois (or whatever it turns out to be in this production)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Yes, she will be doing pd3, so at least Madrid gets to see her in something. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Yesterday afternoon, in between bouts of work, I spent a very pleasant time watching a Swan Lake I found on Youtube. Starring some couple called Fonteyn and Nureyev. With choreography by Nureyev. Very interesting. I can't remember the ending of the RB version, I haven't seen it for so long, but there is no happy ending in this one. I won't put the link on here, as full works videos like these have a nasty habit of vanishing, but I am sure people can find it if they want to. Fonteyn did some lovely fouettes, incidentally, but not to the normal music. I am not that familiar with the score, so I don't know what Nureyev actually used. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saodan Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 From an interview with Osipova: “The new version will still retain a lot from the traditional classical production: the white set, the swans, the duo. The choreographer is planning to slightly shift the focus of the performance and change the last scene. Nevertheless he is very careful in his treatment of the classical choreography. Actually, his version is closer to the Russian one, as I now understand. His own choreography will feature in the fourth scene (the dances he will stage himself) not be processing old versions. Perhaps, he might change something else, but he will leave the famous black pas de deux and the white scene virtually unchanged.” On Matthew Ball: “We first danced together in Giselle, and very successfully. He is a very pleasant person, very talented, handsome and with a very big heart. And I hope that we are going to be an inspiration for each other. So, to me, this is a very pleasant partnership.” Both parts of the interview are worth a read. https://www.russianartandculture.com/natalia-osipova-part-ii-so-while-i-am-carried-away-by-dancing-i-must-give-myself-to-it/ 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandra Newman Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 (edited) I guess we'll see him less and less with his initial partner Yasmine Naghdi with whom he danced Olga/Lensky in Onegin very early on in his career, followed by Romeo & Juliet, Sugar Plum Fairy/Prince and Aurora/Prince. He is not even cast to dance with Naghdi next Season in La Bayadere nor in The Nutcracker...sad news for us fans of the Naghdi/Ball stage couple Edited May 2, 2018 by Xandra Newman spelling 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 And that marvellous Giselle in February! They had better be cast together in R&J..... 😠😠 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 I've a hunch that Corrales may become Osipova's main partner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Except that Mr O'Hare doesn't seem to believe in establishing partnerships. It's mix and match at the RB these days. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blossom Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Lauren Cuthbertson is the cover photo on The Times today and she and Liam Scarlett on the cover of Times2. Double page spread on pages 4 and 5 about the new production. Getting excited to find out more with the Insight next week... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 27 minutes ago, Blossom said: Lauren Cuthbertson is the cover photo on The Times today and she and Liam Scarlett on the cover of Times2. Double page spread on pages 4 and 5 about the new production. Getting excited to find out more with the Insight next week... The article is included in Today's Links - take a look not only at this but another 27 links! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 The front page picture leads here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/news-in-pictures-thursday-may4-2018-l7q3txjtq?shareToken=8295b63d7419fdb7aae484977a772a6b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Yet another silly caption. Ms Cuthbertson won't be wearing that 'traditional tutu' on stage in Swan Lake! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 3 hours ago, John Mallinson said: Yet another silly caption. Ms Cuthbertson won't be wearing that 'traditional tutu' on stage in Swan Lake! Quite and very confusing. I heard someone wondering whether the swans would be turning pink! They are clearly quite neurotic about letting any details, other than the official Odette/Siegfried picture, leak out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colman Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 1 hour ago, capybara said: Quite and very confusing. I heard someone wondering whether the swans would be turning pink! They are clearly quite neurotic about letting any details, other than the official Odette/Siegfried picture, leak out. Flamingo Lake! They'd be foolish to let any details out, since they're pretty much guaranteed that people will jump on them to explain what a disaster the whole thing is going to be. Who wants that to be the news stories coming up to the opening? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Nice assessment of the production before anyone's even seen it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob S Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 What I'd like to know is whether members are going to try to avoid reviews here, in the newspapers, on Radio 4 etc until they've been to see a performance themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 17 hours ago, Blossom said: Lauren Cuthbertson is the cover photo on The Times today and she and Liam Scarlett on the cover of Times2. With all due respect to Ms Cuthbertson, what a non-event to have as a front page photo. I trust the coverage inside is better - and will try and remember to check it out tomorrow in the library. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard LH Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 11 hours ago, Rob S said: What I'd like to know is whether members are going to try to avoid reviews here, in the newspapers, on Radio 4 etc until they've been to see a performance themselves I am going to Takada /McRae on the first Saturday. I will read any reviews of the opening night (Nunez/Muntagirov) with great interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Alison, I should say in Ms Cuthbertson's defence that the photo in the News link I posted cut off her legs when compared with the printed version! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 I know, Ian, I had a look in the supermarket. But it's still an awful "non-event" of a photo to have on the front page of The Times. Was there any reason Cuthbertson couldn't have been photographed in the proper tutu, since that's already been disclosed? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penelopesimpson Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 On 5/5/2018 at 06:47, Richard LH said: I am going to Takada /McRae on the first Saturday. I will read any reviews of the opening night (Nunez/Muntagirov) with great interest. Me, too Richard. Couldn't get tickets for the first night but waiting with bated breath for 19th. I feel confident we are in for a treat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penelopesimpson Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 (edited) What a silly picture and unintelligent caption. Unless they have re-named it Pink Lake. She has black tights and no head-dress and is wearing a jumper. Daft Edited May 7, 2018 by penelopesimpson 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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