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4 hours ago, Bruce Wall said:

Also notice that a certain Calvin Richardson is offering a ballet (as is Charlotte Edmonds) in Munich's Young Choreographers of Today programme in July.  

 
Yes exciting news!  It is was announced in January (in German)

 

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50 minutes ago, FionaE said:

 
Yes exciting news!  It is was announced in January (in German)

 


In English (google translate):


À JOUR - Contemporary Choreographies 2020 celebrates its premiere at this year's Munich Opera Festival!  One of the 4 choreographers will be the young Englishwoman Charlotte Edmonds, who among other things has already choreographed for the @royaloperahouse.  Calvin Richardson, Philippe Kratz and Yoshito Sakuraba will complete the evening with @charlotte_edmonds.  The first tickets for the performances in the Prinzregententheater (July 11 - 14, 20) will be available tomorrow (and only tomorrow!) When the #BSOFestspiele is sold at the box office.  You can find more information on the first day of sale on our homepage (link in organic).  #Ballet #premiere #BSBajour #femalechoreographer #choreographer #risingstar #bsofestspiele #vorfreude #tickets #vorverkauf #shopping

 

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On 14/03/2020 at 07:35, Duck said:

While all performances by the Bavarian State Ballet until 19 April have been cancelled, a performance of Swan Lake will be live streamed on 21 March 2020 and available as VOD for a short time period thereafter.

https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/schwanensee/2020-03-21-19-30-1.html

 

 

Change of programme, this will now be a recorded performance of Jewels

https//www.staatsoper.de/en/news/online-schedule-until-19-april.html

 

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Amidst all the bad news, Stuttgart's principal dancer Alicia Amatriain had a baby girl yesterday. The father is soloist Alexander McGowan.

The whole Stuttgart Ballet is in self-quarantine at home because after a recent tour, one of the staff was tested positive with Corona. Neither Amatrain nor McGowan were on the tour, so they and their baby are safe.

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21 minutes ago, Angela said:

Amidst all the bad news, Stuttgart's principal dancer Alicia Amatriain had a baby girl yesterday. The father is soloist Alexander McGowan.

The whole Stuttgart Ballet is in self-quarantine at home because after a recent tour, one of the staff was tested positive with Corona. Neither Amatrain nor McGowan were on the tour, so they and their baby are safe.

 

Nice to hear some lovely news at this time.

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Also Sergei Polunin (permanent guest with the Bayerisches Staatsballet) recently announced the birth of his first child! What a blessing all these happy news in these sad and uncertain days ❤

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Please note that Bavarian State Opera are now streaming JEWELS on Saturday 21/3 instead of Swan Lake I think because the show isn't actually being performed to be live streamed.  This is the Jewels that was live streamed last year ( I remember being really cross with Somova for wearing her own Mariinsky tutu for Diamonds - it was so old, greying and grubby looking which ruined the overall look as BSB had all beautiful shiny new costumes - Somova stuck out like a sore thumb yikes!)

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45 minutes ago, Ian Macmillan said:

Is anybody going to buy the magazine at £8.99 when they could have it as part of the Sunday Times for just £2.90?


not me!  Will be going out to shops on Sunday .. I’ll need milk by then anyway 😉

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On ‎19‎/‎03‎/‎2020 at 20:38, Don Q Fan said:

Please note that Bavarian State Opera are now streaming JEWELS on Saturday 21/3 instead of Swan Lake I think because the show isn't actually being performed to be live streamed.  This is the Jewels that was live streamed last year ( I remember being really cross with Somova for wearing her own Mariinsky tutu for Diamonds - it was so old, greying and grubby looking which ruined the overall look as BSB had all beautiful shiny new costumes - Somova stuck out like a sore thumb yikes!)

 

Oh blast, and I've missed it :( 

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Stuttgart Ballet will stream Marcia Haydée's Sleeping Beauty from today, 18 CET, until March 31 - on their website and on their Youtube-Channel

Cast: Elisa Badenes, Friedemann Vogel, Miricam Kacerova and Jason Reilly as Carabosse.

 

This is a very, very beautiful production with sets and costumes by Jürgen Rose

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2 hours ago, Angela said:

Stuttgart Ballet will stream Marcia Haydée's Sleeping Beauty from today, 18 CET, until March 31 - on their website and on their Youtube-Channel

Cast: Elisa Badenes, Friedemann Vogel, Miricam Kacerova and Jason Reilly as Carabosse.

 

This is a very, very beautiful production with sets and costumes by Jürgen Rose

 

I agree! GORGEOUS!!! Don't miss it.

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Please can any of our German specialists confirm whether today's announcement from Mrs Merkel means that the rest of the season is now off? Does the decision about large gatherings - how large is large? - get passed on to each region to implement as it chooses, as seemed to be the case when things were being shut down? (I'm assuming they'll all comply anyway.)

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12 minutes ago, MAX said:

 

I can't find anything conclusive in that though - it's speculation from yesterday unless I'm missing something?

 

For the avoidance of doubt: I'm not expecting there to be any more performances, I'm just looking for formal confirmation, or a route to it.

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1 hour ago, Lizbie1 said:

Please can any of our German specialists confirm whether today's announcement from Mrs Merkel means that the rest of the season is now off? Does the decision about large gatherings - how large is large? - get passed on to each region to implement as it chooses, as seemed to be the case when things were being shut down? (I'm assuming they'll all comply anyway.)

 

22 minutes ago, MAX said:

 

The 18 months were being discussed prior to todays news conference.

 

Based on today's conference

- theatres and opera houses (and other cultural venues) remain closed & there is no timeframe mentioned

- no large events prior to 31 Aug. There's no definition as to what constitutes a 'large' event in the document that was the basis for the news conference but I've seen a couple of articles that state that this will be defined by the various states

- the measures as to what will reopen / remain closed etc. will be reviewed every two weeks

 

Added link to article that links to the document that was the basis for the news conference today 

https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/bund-und-laender-einig-kleine-schritte-zurueck-ins-leben-16726909.html

 

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From the Deutsche Welle news site:

Bars, restaurants, day care centers, theaters, and cinemas will stay closed until further notice. Religious gatherings are also canceled for the foreseeable future.

 

The theatres need to update their websites though. At the moment you can still buy tickets online for Stuttgart Ballet for performances after April 19! No doubt that will get fixed tomorrow.

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5 minutes ago, toursenlair said:

The theatres need to update their websites though. At the moment you can still buy tickets online for Stuttgart Ballet for performances after April 19! No doubt that will get fixed tomorrow.

 

I *think* that the guidance document technically only extends closure as far as 3rd May (to be reviewed fortnightly, as Duck says above), but I imagine many theatres and companies will be tempted to throw in the towel at this point.

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