Rob S Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 3 hours ago, annekh510 said: I was at the Paul Hamlyn performance and this was not the Clara that day, unfortunately I didn't get a cast changes list (nor did I get a program which were free that day), it being my first time at the ROH. I think Clara was Isabella Gasperini, but I was sat quite far away and am guessing based on the blonde hair and the fact there was a rehearsal broadcast with her and David Yudes, due to injury. Oh ok, that situation sounds familiar now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 If Clara was blonde, wouldn't it have been Meaghan Grace Hinkis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annekh510 Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 hour ago, alison said: If Clara was blonde, wouldn't it have been Meaghan Grace Hinkis? I've looked at both their pictures and the rehearsal video on youtube and I'm pretty sure that despite my faulty memory that it was Isabella, her hair looks quite a light shade of brown, the stage lights could have lightened that a bit. I wish they put accurate cast lists online, or train the ushers better, especially with a house full of newbies. They announced a cast change at the beginning, which was how I knew I'd missed some others on paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 10 hours ago, annekh510 said: I wish they put accurate cast lists online Quite right annekh510 - the Paul Hamlyn performance was 15 December and the website still shows Ashley Dean as Clara: https://www.roh.org.uk/events/gr2l9 It would help enormously if the ROH would ensure that casting is properly updated after each performance and ideally with a full cast list not just the principals - apologies for sounding like an an old LP stuck in the groove but some of the basics do require attention. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saodan Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 (edited) Ashley Dean seems to be under the impression that she danced the 15th December Matinee. #15december2018 #matinee Edited December 31, 2018 by Saodan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Many thanks Saodan and apologies to the Royal Opera House website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saodan Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 3 hours ago, JohnS said: Many thanks Saodan and apologies to the Royal Opera House website. Even if the cast sheet and website are correct this time, the fact that we are automatically suspicious is not a good sign! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annekh510 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 6 hours ago, Saodan said: Ashley Dean seems to be under the impression that she danced the 15th December Matinee. #15december2018 #matinee huh, well I'm confused, I looked at the photo above and my first thought was that's not the Clara I saw, I don't know the Royal Ballet corps well enough to identify Ashley Dean, so I simply didn't know on the day, merely wondered knowing she was injured less than 3 weeks earlier. I could have sworn the hair was shorter with some natural wave/curl and fairer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 A poster on balletalert reports that in Hamburg on New Year's Eve john Neumeier decided that to celebrate the day and the 300th performance of his Nutcracker, everyone should get to see their favourite dancers - so all the main roles were cast with 3 or 4 dancers. And they appeared all at the same time - somewhat chaotic but a lot of fun, by the sound of it. How about that for the last night of the current RB run? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivy Lin Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I have a thorny question. The SPF and Cavalier wigs are so white and powdered that they only look good on very fair-skinned dancers. What happens when dancers of color dance this role? Do they still wear the white powdered wigs? Like what do you do for dancers like Hayward and Carlos Acosta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 It's not a thorny question at all. Francesca Hayward looks wonderful in her blonde wig. I don't think that Carlos Acosta ever danced The Prince in the RB's production, did he? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Ha ha perhaps he didn't want to wear the wig!! However I can't see him particularly in this role somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I'm sure if Acosta had danced the Prince he'd have worn the white wig in just the same way that other dancers do e.g. in Manon - it was just the fashion at various times in history, regardless of skin tone. And I too think Francesca Hayward really suits the white wig - if you think anyone does (I do think they changed the shade of the blonde wig for Princess Stephanie in Mayerling for her, though) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saodan Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 ROHCollections says that Acosta danced the prince twice in the 1999/2000 season with Viviana Durante as his Sugar Plum Fairy. Jog any memories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Jonathan Cope didn't wear a white wig when I saw this production in 2001. His wig may have been glittered, but it was certainly dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Personally I think the frosted wigs look a bit odd on the dancers with East Asian skin tone, but look fine on black/white mixed heritage dancers. They certainly don’t look as bizarre as when any darker-skinned dancer gets landed with one of the pale ginger courtesan wigs in Manon, perhaps because the frosted wigs aren’t trying to appear natural, and therefore can look equally unnatural and therefore equally splendid on most. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 3 hours ago, James said: Jonathan Cope didn't wear a white wig when I saw this production in 2001. His wig may have been glittered, but it was certainly dark. I'd need to check the video, but I don't think Miyako Yoshida did either. I certainly remember her doing a Sugar Plum Fairy with frosted hair. OTOH, that might not work too well on blondes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivy Lin Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Here is the video. Both of them go for this silver frosting: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Lauren Cuthbertson has not wore a wig in previous performances. Just lots and lots of silver/white hairspray. I seem to remember a time lapse video on social media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophoife Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 On 27/12/2018 at 22:09, Fonty said: That is such a poignant bit of music. Sometimes I think it is inappropriate for a pdd being danced by a sugar plum fairy and her prince in a cheery Christmas ballet, and instead should be incorporated into a piece featuring a pair of doomed lovers. Graeme Murphy's reimagining Nutcracker: the Story of Clara is the one you need to see, then, Fonty... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 I have watched that Cope/Yoshida performance so often I wore out my computer, Ivy Lin. My favourites, both of them! and the hair does look better. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 53 minutes ago, Mary said: I have watched that Cope/Yoshida performance so often I wore out my computer, Ivy Lin. My favourites, both of them! and the hair does look better. And I also love Alina Cojocaru and Ivan Putrov in this and Dowell too - it's just a perfect cast! It's great to spot all the future principals in smaller roles too like Watson and Morera. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 On 27/12/2018 at 09:00, Sim said: This music chokes me up every time I hear it. That and the SPF pdd music. And in my mind's eye, no matter how many times hear it, I only ever picture Alina and Ivan dancing this beautiful pdd.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Dancer Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 On 27/12/2018 at 13:59, Ivy Lin said: My favorite Nutcrackers are George Balanchine's version which really gives very young ballet students a chance to shine, and has a much more intimate Christmas party. I also enjoyed Alexei Ratmansky's version, and Mark Morris's The Hard Nut. Also enjoyed on video the Kent Stowell production. I just find that every year Peter Wright's version gets stuffier. I adored the Collier/Dowell video as well as the version he made for BRB so many years ago. But that video now seems quaint in its simplicity and charm and I think the RB production is overstuffed. Sometimes you get subtraction from addition. Horses for courses I guess because I have never really taken to George Balanchine’s version despite trying several times when I lived in New York. I don’t think there’s a perfect version (disliked ENB’s version) but I’ve come to appreciate the RB’s version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 This one’s not the right shape for Instagram! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 What a beautiful photo! Thanks bangorballetboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 I don't suppose anyone has any idea of who might be the Rose Fairy tomorrow, or on the 15th? Who's been dancing it this run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob S Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 23 minutes ago, alison said: I don't suppose anyone has any idea of who might be the Rose Fairy tomorrow, or on the 15th? Who's been dancing it this run? I can tell you tomorrow evening if that helps 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBBB Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 24 minutes ago, alison said: I don't suppose anyone has any idea of who might be the Rose Fairy tomorrow, or on the 15th? Who's been dancing it this run? Mayara Magri, Elizabeth Harrod, Claire Calvert, Beatriz Stix-Brunell as far as I’m aware. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 4 minutes ago, MrsBBB said: Mayara Magri, Elizabeth Harrod, Claire Calvert, Beatriz Stix-Brunell as far as I’m aware. Fumi Kaneko was another 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 No Naghdi? Mendizabal's also danced it, and Choe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandra Newman Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 It seems Yasmine Naghdi doesn't dance the Rose Fairy any longer She danced it as a Soloist, and as a First Soloist for the worldwide Cinema relay, but she only danced the Sugar Plum Fairy during the current run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Oh, that's a shame. She was so good at it. Yet it seems this year it's been classified as a First Soloist role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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