Amelia Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) The Bolshoi's site announced a change in tomorrow's cast - Svetlana Zakharova will not be dancing: Mehmene Banu - Maria Allash Shireen - Anna Nikulina Ferhad - Denis Rodkin Vizier - Vitaly Biktimirov http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/71/roles/#20141026180000 The reason is that Svetlana has been hospitalised last night. Edit: the last line added. Edited October 25, 2014 by Amelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 25, 2014 Author Share Posted October 25, 2014 Oh dear. I hope it's nothing serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coated Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 £17 at the odeon in covent garden - the American prices look much nicer to me. That said, it was money well spent, the 3rd act was riveting. I did get a bit distracted by the costumes with what I can only call diamanté nipples though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 I kept wondering where the tassles were 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 From the Russian press: "Zakharova started feeling unwell on Thursday evening during her performance. However, she summoned up all her strength to dance through to the end and only afterwards asked for a doctor. The preliminary diagnosis is renal colic." http://www.mk.ru/culture/2014/10/26/v-moskve-gospitalizirovana-prima-bolshogo-teatra-svetlana-zakharova.html I wish Svetlana to get well as soon as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I saw a streamed performance of Carmen from The Met earlier today, something I wouldn't normally mention here had not ex-RB dancer Martin Harvey turned up twice in PDD set to parts of the Overtures to Acts 1 and 3. His partner was Maria Kowroski and the choreography was by Chris Wheeldon. Quite tasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I saw a streamed performance of Carmen from The Met earlier today, something I wouldn't normally mention here had not ex-RB dancer Martin Harvey turned up twice in PDD set to parts of the Overtures to Acts 1 and 3. His partner was Maria Kowroski and the choreography was by Chris Wheeldon. Quite tasty. Harvey and Kowroski (a NYCB principal) are husband and wife I believe in the so-called 'real' world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 (edited) Wondering about pricing. I see that in Canadian cinemas showing the RB performance relays that there is one fixed maximum price for adults throughout the very large country (... i.e., one larger than the territorial USA ... and one where the entirety of the territorial UK could fit seven times into the province of Ontario alone) of $16.99 (or £9.44). There are reductions for seniors and students. In my local cinema (the Brixton Ritzy) the adult cost for these screenings - to anyone who is not a member of that particular cinema - is £20 (or $36.01 Canadian). These maximum figures are clearly before any of the fees (booking and otherwise) are applied by the particular cinema. I was wondering - given that I assume the cost of the equipment needed for the relay is relatively the same in each country - (i) why are the prices in the UK chains so varying and (ii) why is the British price of admission over double that of the Canadian one (or at least as charged at the Ritzy), especially when one considers the fact that the Canadians are literally thousands of more miles away from the originating source ... which in my case you could walk in just over an hour if necessary? (This is made especially potent when one considers that flying between Vancouver and Toronto represents a larger distance than flying between London [uK] and Toronto.) Does anyone know? Edited November 10, 2014 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 If it's anything like the USA, it could be that cinema prices generally are lower over there? I have a friend in the US who keeps going and re-viewing films she really likes, and I can't believe how little it costs her! What strikes me even more is the discrepancy between cinemas of the same group. For example, Surrey Quays Odeon £13.00 for live broadcast of RB Manon, Wimbledon Odeon £25.00 for Bolshoi Legend of Love. I can understand central London screens having a premium, but Wimbledon is *not* central London! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 So, the Bolshoi Pharaoh's Daughter is being re-shown on Sunday, and can I find anywhere in London showing it apart from Picturehouses, at £20? Nope. And I really don't feel like paying the price for a live broadcast so that they can just come in and put a DVD or whatever it is these days in the player. Has anyone found anything cheaper? No sign of any showings from Odeon, Vue, Curzon ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I think Vue are showing this - not sure how many cinemas though. May be worth checking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 Couldn't see it advertised Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 I think Vue are showing this - not sure how many cinemas though. May be worth checking? A handful: http://www.myvue.com/latest-movies/info/film/bolshoi-ballet-pharaohs-daughter-recorded-live And only Shepherd's Bush in London. It may be £5 cheaper, but by the time I've paid transport costs there'd be very little in it. TimeOut's cinema search is now at http://www.timeout.com/london/film, but unfortunately it no longer seems to cover cinemas across the UK, only the London area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) If it's anything like the USA, it could be that cinema prices generally are lower over there? I have a friend in the US who keeps going and re-viewing films she really likes, and I can't believe how little it costs her! What strikes me even more is the discrepancy between cinemas of the same group. For example, Surrey Quays Odeon £13.00 for live broadcast of RB Manon, Wimbledon Odeon £25.00 for Bolshoi Legend of Love. I can understand central London screens having a premium, but Wimbledon is *not* central London! It is interesting to note, Alison, that the Canadian cinemas showing the Royal Ballet screenings are now offering a ten per cent discount if you 'subscribe to the entire series' on top of their already substantially lesser charges than are charged in the RB's home country (e.g., here). It would be grand I think if British cinemas offered a similar incentive. It might help to even out some of the attendances ... and make the losses from screening such crucial events as an Ashton bill (for just one example) less potent. Also I don't know why they don't cross advertise other Arts screening presentations during the showings of different arts constituents. (I realise these may be different for different chains.) For example, I have never seen an ident at the Brixton Ritzy (Picturehouse chain) for the RB screenings during the NT, Met or Glynbourne cinema outings that I have attended or certainly none at the Bolshoi showings. (I have once seen a Bolshoi ident during an NT screening encore but that is all.) Of course this may just be the case in London. Perhaps in other areas of the country this sharing practice is much more prevalent. I wonder too - if the Vienna lead proves effective - if the RB (and their purchased off shoot, Opus Arte) might not move to pay-per-view which I think might be the best option as it would take out the considerable number of cinema chain middle(men/women/people). Part of me now thinks that - in the long term - this might prove the most profitable option (which is, of course, key in this regard as such screenings are apart from the concerns of tax-payer/lottery subsidy). Edited November 22, 2014 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailR Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 For North of London people, Watford Palace are showing Pharoah's Daughter the following Sunday, 30th Nov, at 3:00pm. They charge £15 with no concessions for live/recorded films. You could even stay for the evening showing of Gone Girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulcinella Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 The Electric Cinema in Birmingham is showing The Pharaoh's Daughter and other Bolshoi showings for £10.50 (concessions £8.50) for basic seats, although there are more expensive tickets in the sofas (£12.50 & £16.50). I've just come back from Bruges and the tickets at the cinema there are €22.50 each for the Bolshoi or €136.50 for all 7 ballets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 Also I don't know why they don't cross advertise other Arts screening presentations during the showings of different arts constituents. (I realise these may be different for different chains.) For example, I have never seen an ident at the Brixton Ritzy (Picturehouse chain) for the RB screenings during the NT, Met or Glynbourne cinema outings that I have attended or certainly none at the Bolshoi showings. (I have once seen a Bolshoi ident during an NT screening encore but that is all.) Of course this may just be the case in London. Perhaps in other areas of the country this sharing practice is much more prevalent. Yes, I agree. Go into your local Odeon showing such things and you'll probably find a sheet of paper detailing the Bolshoi showings, another one for the ROH, another one for Glyndebourne, another for the National Theatre, The Met Opera, and so on. And there still seems to be no desire to put together a specific mailing-list for arts and cultural events. So I'm almost unaware of the other, non-ballet, strands of what's on offer. It's a real shame for there to be this artificial divide between the artforms, when there is potential crossover between the audiences. It looks to me as though Odeon has totally opted out of the pre-recorded Bolshoi showings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) The broadcast of the Bolshoi's Nutcracker is to star Anna Nikulina, Denis Rodkin and Andrei Merkuriev. http://bolshoi.ru/en...#20141221180000 Edited November 23, 2014 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulcinella Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Screening of The Pharaoh's Daughter at the Electric Cinema, Birmingham today cancelled as the film not received from Belgium! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 (edited) TIME OUT advised that the Bolshoi’s La Bayadere will be shown in SIX London cinemas: Gate Cinema Notting Hill, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JZ Clapham Picturehouse, 76 Venn St, London, SW4 0AT Ritzy Cinema Brixton, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 1JG Vue Shepherd's Bush, West 12 Shopping & Leisure Centre, Shepherd's Bush Green, W12 8PP Greenwich Picturehouse, 180 Greenwich High Rd, London, SE10 8NN Stratford Picturehouse East London, Salway Rd, London, E15 1BX At Clapham Picturehouse it will start at NOON. Price: Adult £20, Retired £15. It will be the performance recorded in 2012 - duration 165 min. The Bolshoi has a different show on that date - an interesting charity Gala Concert for the benefit of the Kiev Ballet School: Zakharova, Cojocaru, Osipova, Salenko, Sarafanov, Rodkin, de Bana, Putrov, Ovcharenko and others. http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/824/ Edited for layout. Edited December 2, 2014 by Amelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 Yep, I was afraid it was only going to be Picturehouses again. Pity. I'd've liked to see it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 ... *have* seen it again, I think. My grammar brain has obviously switched off for the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 13, 2014 Author Share Posted December 13, 2014 I see today's Daily Telegraph has a 2-4-1 offer on Bolshoi screenings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) It will be Anna Nikulina and Denis Rodkin dancing in the Nutcrcker tomorrow. Rodkin's debut as Nutcracker Prince took place last night, so it will be his second performance today. Edited December 21, 2014 by Amelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Isn't it a repeat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) For advertising the transmission to cinema the Bolshoi chose Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js9Z1VaTyLE The transmission of “Swan Lake” from the Bolshoi with Zakharova and Denis Rodkin will start this Sunday 25 January at 3 pm and will last 160 min.: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Clapham_Picturehouse/film/Bolshoi_Swan_Lake_2015/ This is the reply that I got from Clapham Picturehouse: Sorry, there are not enough seats left. Please choose a different time. Edited: The last Para added. Edited January 21, 2015 by Amelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Let me see ... Bolshoi Swan Lake. Do I want to go and see it? - jester?: check - Rothbart doppelganger? Can't remember much about the rest of it: can anybody remind me, please? Wonder whether it will have any impact on the RB broadcast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) Here is the full cast for the Bolshoi SWAN LAKE on Sunday for its live relay performance. (This was always listed as a 'live relay', Alison from the time of the initial announcement of the Bolshoi broadcast season.) It's great that the Bolshoi are so fulsome in their casting information (and not just for relay performances). They and NYCB are a true role model in this respect. http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/36/roles/#20150125180000 I wonder if the Bolshoi actually mean to make this season a Denis Rodkin Festival (to take nothing away from the young man's talents)? It seems to me that Rodkin has been a leading principal male in EVERY live relay from the Bolshoi thus far in the 2014/15 season. I wonder what he will be doing or if he will appear in Ivan the Terrible, the last live item in that season's programme? Bets are on that he will. Certainly the current odds have it. More importantly what's happening to such artists as Chudin or Lantratov or Ovcharenko - fine artists all and of Rodkin's generation? Why are they not getting a chance at any one of these relays? Could this be illustrating that the almighty force that is Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich is once again dominant? All live relay productions are - as it happens - his. World Ballet Day - at least from my take - seemed to be suggesting this. Wisely perhaps Girgorovich would not speak to the camera. The palm of this particular God (Vasiliev was wonderfully witty in his imitation of him at the LBC meeting) stood forcefully in the lens' path. 'Not me' it seemed to demand. It would be interesting to know what Filin is thinking, especially as Smirnova and Chudin were proteges from his previous directorship. I wonder is Filin now merely a puppet? It would, I think, be a sad turn of affairs if that were to be the case ... but hardly surprising. Edited January 22, 2015 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Let me see ... Bolshoi Swan Lake. Do I want to go and see it? - jester?: check - Rothbart doppelganger? Can't remember much about the rest of it: can anybody remind me, please? Wonder whether it will have any impact on the RB broadcast? Personally, I loathe the Bolshoi's Swan Lake. The designs are horrible, dated 60s. The wigs are so horrendous they're distracting (I said this to someone before the Bolshoi did it live here in Toronto and her response was "How bad can they be?" until she saw it, and then it was "Katherine, you're RIGHT!"). Choreography does nothing for me; I find it unmusical. I have seen it both live and in the cinema and have no desire to see it again. Also I find Zakharova too skinny (again, distractingly so) and unemotional. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Thanks, Katherine. I was fairly sure I didn't want to see it, so I'll save my money 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Unfortunately Yuri Girgorovich's dead hand lies heavily on the Bolshoi's productions of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty reducing both to approximations of the great works that they purport to show.I think that the excuse that they give for his productions is that they are poetic evocations of the works in question Danilova's description of the development of Russian ballet during the twentieth century as a display of dance rather than a means of creating mood or telling a story says all that needs to be said about his productions and his ballets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Any ballet/production involving a jester should be avoided IMO. What music does the jester dance to in the Bolshoi's Swan Lake? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Just a side note: anyone intending to go and see this in Wimbledon might need to be aware of major engineering works and lack of trains from Waterloo - I believe Thameslink services are still running. Looks as though this probably applies every weekend until the end of February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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