ENB Nutcracker Winter 2014/15 - Cast Changes and Other Information

[Jan McNulty]

ENB has announced some cast changes for the Nutcracker season at the Coliseum:

 

Cast changes announcements:  http://blog.ballet.org.uk/cast-changes-nutcracker/

 

 

Casting page:  http://www.ballet.org.uk/whats-on/nutcracker-2014/

 

 

[aileen]

Wow! Max has 8 extra performances in three and a half weeks. The injury toll among the ENB men is terrible at the moment.

[LinMM]

Actually when you go to the first link above it is a bit confusing as it gives the matinee as on the 12th which is a Friday whereas the matinee is on the 13th the Saturday. The casting for the Saturday matinee appears to be the same as on the ENB main website page.

I'm going to this matinee but I don't care too much who dances as I don't know many of the current younger ENB dancers that well!! Except for probably Jonah Acosta!!

The two as cast for the matinee I don't know at all.....Fernanda Oliveira Vitor Luiz and Fernando Bufala

Edited December 8, 2014 by LinMM

[alison]

I haven't heard (no pun intended) of Casey Herd: who is he?

 

Yes, disappointing that there are obviously so many injuries.  I thought that ENB used to have rather a good record on injuries.

[Naomi M]

Casey Herd is a principal at Dutch National Ballet, and partner of Nadia Yanowsky (Zenaida's sister)

http://www.operaballet.nl/en/node/2246

[alison]

Thanks, Naomi.

 

And I'm going to change the title of this thread so I can add this (to me) most welcome piece of news, culled from Luke Jennings' recent review of BRB's Nutcracker in Sunday's Observer (link here: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/dec/07/the-nutcracker-review-birmingham-royal-ballet-christmassy):

"(On the subject of the Arabian dance, English National Ballet’s Nutcracker has in recent seasons featured a sadistic-looking sheikh with a bullwhip. But this season, I’m informed, is to be flagellation-free, ENB director Tamara Rojo having apparently decided that the sequence doesn’t contribute significantly to the cause of world peace.)"

Edited December 9, 2014 by alison
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[Bruce Wall]

Related only because it deals with THE NUTCRACKER ... Click here for a new and lengthy VANITY FAIR article about Balanchine's adventure with the same.  

[Don Q Fan]

^^ Oooh thanks for the link I will be in New York to see Nutcracker this weekend - can't wait!

[Bruce Wall]

There are some lovely pics of ABT's (Ratmansky) Nutcracker from Vogue here --- Again, it's ONLY because it is 'The Nutcracker' ... given that it is not otherwise herewith relevant.