VickyPage Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Does anyone know when full casting will be released? Would love to see Oksana Skoryk With the Bolshoi, they didn't reveal which cast would be on which date until the day booking opened, so it's likely that we won't know till 28th March with the Mariinsky. But Oksana will certainly be doing Swan Lake and Bayadere (I'll be booking at least one night with her!). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie14 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Thanks to all those who posted links and all the tips on casting, very helpful, What do members think about the possibility of live streaming into cinemas, says she hopefully, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Is the Mariinsky part of the cinema worldwide network? We don't get them at our local Vue and we seem to get everything else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 What do members think about the possibility of live streaming into cinemas, says she hopefully, Zilch, I'd say. The Mariinsky haven't embraced the concept at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I think someone explained that their theatre doesn't yet have the technology to cope with this- is that right? shame. The Bolshoi has really leapt ahead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blossom Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Pricing is out in the latest ROH magazine, prices up to £150 for 'super seats', then £140,£122,£105,£90,£80, £65....down to £10. There seem to be 14 pricing tiers vs the usual 13... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Pricing is out in the latest ROH magazine, prices up to £150 for 'super seats', then £140,£122,£105,£90,£80, £65....down to £10. There seem to be 14 pricing tiers vs the usual 13... Priority booking for the first six months of the hip hop musical Hamilton opened yesterday with a top price of £200 and pretty well sold out within hours with social media going viral! Puts the Mariinsky prices into perspective. The booking system was a nightmare - it took me 5 hours to get tickets for my excited grandchildren. The ROH booking system is so tranquil by comparison. Hopefully the coffee at the newly restored Victoria Palace will be better though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Pricing is out in the latest ROH magazine, prices up to £150 for 'super seats', then £140,£122,£105,£90,£80, £65....down to £10. There seem to be 14 pricing tiers vs the usual 13... Are the superseats the ones that entitle the sitter to a glass of something bubbly in the interval and a sandwich? I have thought in the past that, for me anyway, they are not actually the best seats view wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blossom Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 It didn't seem to indicate what was super... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Zilch, I'd say. The Mariinsky haven't embraced the concept at all. they did a Swan Lake a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 3D, wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie14 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Thanks everyone for the info. I belong to Friends of the Mariinski and they haven't even informed me that the company are coming! Assuming that I will only be able to attend one performance at ROH and also that my friend prefers Bayadere, what do members think of Mariinski Bayadere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 3D, wasn't it? yes but there was a 2D version as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 jamie14. I don't think that you can go too far wrong with the Mariinsky's Bayadere. It is well worth seeing so if that is the only ballet that you can get to see you won't be disappointed.I'm afraid that is not something I would say about all of the repertory which the Mariinsky is bringing on this tour such as Ratmansky's Anna Karenina which I found rather weak when the Mariinsky last performed it here. I assume that it is.being performed on this tour as a vehicle.rather than a "return by popular demand". As far as the rest of the repertory coming to London is concerned their Don Q is somewhat more restrained than the Bolshoi's. The Mariinsky dance it as classical ballet rather than as a big bold super spectacle of larger than life dance. I think that they still dance Swan Konstantin Sergeyev's Swan Lake.The company still regards his productions as the distillation of Petipa's choreography. Its connection with Swan Lake as we know it is somewhat more obvious than it is in Grigorovitch's production for the Bolshoi. Their Corsaire is nice but I prefer the Bolshoi reconstruction which attempts to show us something far closer to Petipa's ballet than the Mariinsky attempt.Their production is Gusev's and is essentially a Soviet reworking of the ballet with a revised story line and characters who do not appear in the original work such as Ali. The Jardin anime is a slimline version rather than the Bolshoi's fill the stage with dancers spectacular. Then there is the "Contrasts mixed bill.The only element of it which tempts me is the Paquita Grand Pas. Other people may think differently about what the Mariinsky is offering the audience on this tour. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie14 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Can anyone recommend good seats to go for, bearing in mind I will only be able to afford one ballet (Bayadere), poss stalls, or stalls circle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 If you get orchestra stalls do not go for the first few rows at the front as you will not be able to see the dancers' feet. Never was I more disappointed than at Fille with Cojacaru/Kobborg when my row A seat meant I mostly could only see from the knees up. The feet were only visible if the dancers came to front of the stage. Sit at least 6 rows back I'd say. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penelopesimpson Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I saw Vishneva in AK and loved it - both her and the ballet which I found adventurous and unusual, even though the critics didn't. If only our Anastasia were half as good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I went on the Hochhauser Facebook page and asked if they would be offering people on their mailing list some for of priority booking as they usually do. I was told yes, everyone on their mailing list (which is free to register) will be contacted and receive some form of priority booking. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I don't wish to upset anyone but I would urge caution as far as booking for AK is concerned.It is of course a matter of personal taste but I know some people who really did not find Ratmansky's ballet to be the great tragic vehicle that he intended it to be. Indeed .some people who can usually be relied upon to switch on and maintain a very serious expression at performances found it almost impossible to watch the ballet with a straight face when it was last shown at the Opera House. I think that it was the horse race and the section immediately before the suicide which people found the most giggle inducing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penelopesimpson Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I don't wish to upset anyone but I would urge caution as far as booking for AK is concerned.It is of course a matter of personal taste but I know some people who really did not find Ratmansky's ballet to be the great tragic vehicle that he intended it to be. Indeed .some people who can usually be relied upon to switch on and maintain a very serious expression at performances found it almost impossible to watch the ballet with a straight face when it was last shown at the Opera House. I think that it was the horse race and the section immediately before the suicide which people found the most giggle inducing. Oh dear, I liked it! Yes, there were odd wrong notes but Vishneva was magnificent and I liked the use of video projection. You are right in that if I was recommending somebody for the first time, I wouldn't recommend AK, but I thought it was streets ahead of Anastasia which, for me, was a train wreck with one good Act tacked on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 As I said before, a lot of my liking of this ballet had to do with the presence of Lopatkina and I would certainly concede that Ratmansky's Anna Karenina is several carriages short of a masterpiece. For me its main fault was too much time given to clever staging at the expense of character development, in a ballet only about an hour and a half in length anyway. I have sat through many ballets considered to be masterpieces of great drama, tragedy, death and so on. Yet sometimes found myself unexpectedly amused, bored and/or left completely cold, particularly at the more overwrought spectacles. It is indeed, all a matter of taste. I don't know if AK has undergone any reworking since its last showing at the ROH. Like many other works, it would probably benefit from some tweaking. But it did as I recall, contain many strikingly beautiful images and is,in my opinion, worth seeing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 I have to agree that AK was a -very-great disappointment. If one is only able to go to one of the Marinsky season, I would not recommend making it that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I see from today's Links that the East Coast of America is getting Ratmansky's "The Little Humpbacked Horse" again (http://www.danceviewtimes.com/2017/02/a-boy-and-his-horse.html) I think I'd far rather have had that than Anna Karenina again, but I suppose the name of the latter makes it a less risky proposition 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sybarite2015@ Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 I'll try to go to each of the ballet's at least once. I'm disappointed Lopatkina isn't coming as she's imho the greatest ballerina currently in the world (even though I adore Zakharova) and her The Dying Swan is peerless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 The ROH has the Mariinsky seating plan and prices on the website, (scroll down to the bottom of any page for the seating plans). As usual, very few "cheaper" seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 The ROH has the Mariinsky seating plan and prices on the website, (scroll down to the bottom of any page for the seating plans). As usual, very few "cheaper" seats. I can confirm from my booking earlier today that there are no (or very few) seats or standing places being held back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Do you mean it's sold out nearly already?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPD444 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I'm a friend+ and when I log in the dates are all showing "not on sale" until 3rd March I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Do you mean it's sold out nearly already?! No, there were lots of seats available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Great thank you. Hopefully not too long until some preliminary casting is issued. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 This might be helpful, hopefully I've deposited in the right place... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 After reading the Times article today I thought I would check the casting and Xander Parish is dancing Vronsky with Viktoria Tereshkina at the second Anna Karenina. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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