alison Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 The ROH website is reporting that the new yearbook will be out next month: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/royal-ballet-yearbook-201213-soon-to-be-released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Thanks for that Alison. I ordered my copy from Amazon a while ago. Did anyone buy the new Darcey book? I wonder what people thought of it. I don't think it has been mentioned/reviewed on this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 I had a fairly good flip through it in a bookshop the other day: it's a very nice-looking book (and has a goodly number of photos of Messrs. Cope and Bolle, too, which might make it worth buying for their fans too). However, I have no idea how much it cost, as there was no price label on it. I don't imagine it was cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I had a fairly good flip through it in a bookshop the other day: it's a very nice-looking book (and has a goodly number of photos of Messrs. Cope and Bolle, too, which might make it worth buying for their fans too). However, I have no idea how much it cost, as there was no price label on it. I don't imagine it was cheap. The recommended price is £17.50 but Amazon are selling it for £14.88. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I think the recommended price is £30 and it is on Amazon for £19 or thereabouts, which is what I paid for it. It is a lovely book, full of photographs of Darcey in various performances, with various partners but primarily, as Alison say, Bolle and Cope. It is interesting to compare with Sylvie Guillem's Invitation, which is a very different book, as indeed, Sylvie is a very different person. I couldn't help thinking that the Darcey book rather lacked imagination, photo after photo from the same ballet or different productions of the same, it all started to get rather repetitive.There is very little of her in repose,rehearsal or anything out of the ordinary. The Sylvie book is almost an art book by comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 The recommended price is £17.50 but Amazon are selling it for £14.88. Apologies. I'd thought Alison was writing about the Royal Ballet Yearbook. That's what these prices refer to. That will teach me to read threads more carefully! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Just received my copy of the RB Yearbook 2012/2013. I think it is the best yet, full of really good photos and information. I was wondering if anyone has been into the ROH shop since it reopened. Is it better/worse/no different? I was getting increasingly dismayed at the amount of ludicrously overpriced 'souvenirs' on sale before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 No different, I think. I just made straight for the magazines and didn't really look for anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Ok ya! as Darcey might say. I won't be passing that way until December, when I am hoping to see the Firebird triple bill. Apparently the on-line shop is still being redeveloped? Is there something awry with the times on these posts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Reynolds Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Is there something awry with the times on these posts? I think it's slow by an hour, i.e. on Greenwich Mean Time, so if it stays like that it should be right on October 28th when we in the UK go back to GMT for the winter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 If you want daylight saving then you have to go to the Your settings page and check the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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