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Post by Distant Dreamer... on May 20, 2019 7:35:14 GMT
Was my original topic not the same as this one?  Hmmm i'll have to ponder this one a while, on the face of it this season is dull. |
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Post by asfound on May 23, 2019 7:04:52 GMT
If you mean they cut out that silly all's well that ends well epilogue right after the denouement then you've sold it to me! Well obviously you and Kasper Holten know better than Mozart. Did Mozart really include it for creative reasons though? Or was it the same kind of pressure which leads to Disney happy endings? I guess we'll never know, but it sure seems he was conflicted about it. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 10:18:07 GMT
Thanks for that, some interesting stuff in the Linbury which I look forward to complaining about not being able to get tickets for  Public booking opened today - good news is the Linbury shows have not sold out, bad news is they seem to have achieved this by whacking the prices up. Last time I paid £35 and £45 for front facing stalls - these seats are now £55 or £65 depending on the show. So I've given them a miss! |
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Post by jgblunners on Aug 7, 2019 10:56:32 GMT
I'm booked for Agrippina and both the Dons Giovanni and Pasquale - plenty of availability in student booking yesterday.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Aug 7, 2019 11:51:17 GMT
Got tickets for Werther and the triple bill Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III. Wanted to book a couple of others but I'll wait for Friday Rush .
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Post by jadnoop on Oct 23, 2019 22:35:53 GMT
Good luck to anyone else trying for Fidelio tickets tomorrow. It seems fairly unclear what tickets have been held back for public sale, but there’s much discussion over on the Ballet forum. It would be interesting to know how the ticket allocations work for this compared, to similarly popular theatre, like say last year’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the NT. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 23, 2019 23:01:10 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 24, 2019 6:13:16 GMT
Have they not learnt anything from the last 20 or so years?
Accessibility means nothing to them
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Post by AddisonMizner on Oct 24, 2019 9:35:23 GMT
I decided to get a Young Friend Membership this year, as there is quite a bit that I want to see - one of them being FIDELIO.
When I logged onto the website on the day of Friends booking (about a month ago now), my chosen performance for FIDELIO had already sold out (though this was the Sunday matinee and Opening Performance, so was quite understandable really). I have been logging on everyday checking if tickets would come up to no avail, until yesterday when I managed to bag myself a central stalls seat. Most of the time, returns do show up. I remember that Jonas’ ROH OTELLO was sold out initially, but I managed to bag myself a return for that. The same was true for Netrebko’s MACBETH. The only time I’ve really been unsuccessful was FORZA last year, when no returns showed up (at least for the Netrebko/Kaufmann cast).
I’ve also got myself a ticket for the new ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND. Quite looking forward to it, and for £60, really can’t complain.
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 24, 2019 10:22:30 GMT
Good luck to anyone else trying for Fidelio tickets tomorrow. It seems fairly unclear what tickets have been held back for public sale, but there’s much discussion over on the Ballet forum. It would be interesting to know how the ticket allocations work for this compared, to similarly popular theatre, like say last year’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the NT. I'm one of the people involved in that discussion (I have the same username there as here). I don't even want to see Fidelio myself but I'm interested in the principle,as for years it has been widely thought that 20% of ROH tickets were held back for public booking but recently people have come to realise that that appears to be no longer the case. I was checking the website when booking opened at 9am this morning and while some seats did show up for Fidelio it didn't look like there were "hundreds". I'm currently awaiting a reply from the ROH asking why, when they told the Telegraph there were "hundreds" being held back, I had an email from them yesterday, in reply to my querying if the 20% rule was true, saying no tickets had been held back! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2019 10:51:01 GMT
Weird looking at the dates for Alice's Adventures Underground that (apart from the school's matinee and the two performances on Tuesday 4th Feb, which I assume is press night) all the other 6 performances appear to be being filmed.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 24, 2019 11:33:15 GMT
I booked a couple of performances of Swan Lake, mainly because Bonelli is my prince  |
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Post by ctas on Nov 6, 2019 20:55:07 GMT
I have three Swan Lakes booked (but I’ll add a fourth at least) - Magri/Sambé, Naghdi/Ball and Takada/McRae (although who knows if he’ll be recovered in time) - can’t wait!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 6, 2019 21:32:23 GMT
I have three Swan Lakes booked (but I’ll add a fourth at least) - Magri/Sambé, Naghdi/Ball and Takada/McRae (although who knows if he’ll be recovered in time) - can’t wait! I'm SO tempted to book for Sambé as well |
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 6, 2019 21:40:49 GMT
I'm not a particular fan of Sambe, though I am of Magri, so I haven't thus far booked for that cast. Whether I succumb nearer the time remains to be seen! So far I have Hayward/Corrales & Nunez/Muntagirov booked & would ideally like to add Naghdi/Ball. If only the ticket prices weren't so high for both Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty. I've just seen 5 different Manon casts last month & will be seeing 3 each for Coppelia, Onegin & the Concerto triple bill because they're all lower priced.
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Post by ctas on Nov 7, 2019 17:58:08 GMT
I have three Swan Lakes booked (but I’ll add a fourth at least) - Magri/Sambé, Naghdi/Ball and Takada/McRae (although who knows if he’ll be recovered in time) - can’t wait! I'm SO tempted to book for Sambé as well I’ve accidentally made a habit of going to see his role debuts, and he never disappoints. Watching his development into one of the real company stars over the past few years has been a complete joy - his performances are now must-book for me! |
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Post by londonpostie on Nov 9, 2019 10:11:41 GMT
Splashed out £5 on Alice - standing in the Stalls, end of row. I have a slightly cunning plan with bookings at the ROH and this has a decent chance of paying off ...
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Post by londonpostie on Nov 13, 2019 22:05:14 GMT
The Magic Flute last night, from the Stalls Circle - alongside the orchestra pit. Holy smoke! You really get a sense from here of the scale of these productions - gargantuan piece of scenery shifting in and out, up and down. Huge cast, chorus, the cast arriving left, right, from above and below Magnificent costumes, beautiful lighting and movement. Bit of singing as well. It was a £28 genuinely restricted seat (near side of mid stage and back of stage missing) but there are also wonderful compensations from here. As for the production - caveat: what do I know! - both Queen of the Night (Tuuli Takala) and Pamina (Elsa Dreisig) sounded gorgeous to me. The orchestra as well. Plenty of laughs, and in different places to the ENO production in March. It's just a gorgeous spectacle and probably, in ROH terms, a sold 4 baby Papageno's out of 5. Huge fun!
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Post by graham on Nov 19, 2019 10:21:59 GMT
The Magic Flute last night, from the Stalls Circle - alongside the orchestra pit. Holy smoke! You really get a sense from here of the scale of these productions - gargantuan piece of scenery shifting in and out, up and down. Huge cast, chorus, the cast arriving left, right, from above and below Magnificent costumes, beautiful lighting and movement. Bit of singing as well. It was a £28 genuinely restricted seat (near side of mid stage and back of stage missing) but there are also wonderful compensations from here. As for the production - caveat: what do I know! - both Queen of the Night (Tuuli Takala) and Pamina (Elsa Dreisig) sounded gorgeous to me. The orchestra as well. Plenty of laughs, and in different places to the ENO production in March. It's just a gorgeous spectacle and probably, in ROH terms, a sold 4 baby Papageno's out of 5. Huge fun!
I was there Saturday - second row downstairs and agree with everything you say!! |
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Post by ctas on Dec 5, 2019 11:39:26 GMT
After being too unwell to use my ticket for a Hayward/Campbell cast of Sleeping Beauty I’m off to today’s matinee. Double debut for Anna Rose O’Sullivan and James Hay, I believe, and I’m very excited for this!
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