zxDaveM Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 Just now, Sim said: I am on the ROH Facebook page and STILL can't find any link to the Bolshoi. This is really annoying me. How can it be so difficult? follow the link provided by Quintus above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Finally found it. God, they don't make it easy, do they? And why, on the big day itself, does the WBD link not work? If anyone knows who is in charge of the whole thing, please let me know and I will write to them. Thanks for the suggestions above. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 1 minute ago, zxDaveM said: follow the link provided by Quintus above As mentioned above, I already tried it and the message "oops, there's a problem" came up three times. Anyway, by going around the houses, I have found it now. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophoife Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) My guess is, given the WBD site mysteriously stopped working this morning Aussie time (I could use it at 0930 AEST but not at 1055 AEST), that the companies involved chose to force us to use Facebook with its tracking and ads. And if no FB account, can't fullscreen stream as the Join Now Or Log In banner prevents it. Oh, and can't view video on mobile phone at all as Facebook doesn't allow live streams on mobile. Cynical, moi? Edited October 2, 2018 by Sophoife Added 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Colour me the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 13 minutes ago, Sophoife said: And if no FB account, can't fullscreen stream as the Join Now Or Log In banner prevents it. I'm using fullscreen and I don't have a FB account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 3 minutes ago, bangorballetboy said: I'm using fullscreen and I don't have a FB account. Well, you must have a magic touch. Please could you provide the link you are using here? I finally found The Bolshoi after over an hour of trying but the screen keeps freezing. The same kinds of problem occur every year. It feels as if they don't want anyone to watch without enduring a lot of stress first. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I think I can safely say I never need to see the Bolshoi version of La fille mal gardée! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophoife Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) 8 minutes ago, bangorballetboy said: I'm using fullscreen and I don't have a FB account. May I please ask, BBB, what your setup is? Browser, OS etc. Because I can't get fullscreen in either Firefox or MS Edge on Windows 10, and I can't use Chrome because for some reason (probably that my computer is 5+ years old) it slows the system down so far as to be unusable. Edited October 2, 2018 by Sophoife Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) Must admit I've had no problems whatsoever - in FB, I just went straight to the Bolshoi page and it worked. I am watching it from an iPad mirrored onto on a biggish TV and the definition is fine. The Bolshoi seem to have made quite a slick production this year - some prerecorded material, but seamless moves from one segment to another. I could just have wished for some captions in the class and rehearsals to show who was speaking / dancing. I hope the RB segment is as smooth, as last year that was quite glitchy for me. Edited October 2, 2018 by Quintus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I'm on chrome and on this page. I followed the Bolshoi link on the RB's facebook page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Well, I've followed BBB's link and got what appears to be a still - subtitled in English, no less, so obviously prerecorded, or at least time-delayed if they have a very on-the-ball translator working for them - but seemingly no way of making it work as a video! The link from the WBD FB page I think just took me to the Bolshoi's usual page, I scrolled down and clicked on a vid entitled "WBD", then wondered why they were talking about 5th October, and realised it was to do with last year's broadcast! EDIT: Okay, it's working on Firefox, but not on IE11 - now there's a surprise I'll have to break my usual habit of keeping Firefox for work only, but it's really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junedancer Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 11 minutes ago, bangorballetboy said: I'm on chrome and on this page. I followed the Bolshoi link on the RB's facebook page. Thanks - Chrome works for me but not Explorer for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophoife Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Thanks BBB. Due to my Chrome issues I guess I'll just have to wait until it's all uploaded to YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, junedancer said: Thanks - Chrome works for me but not Explorer for some reason. Me too. How not to grow an audience for ballet - just put hurdles in the way of any casual browser. I seem to remember it was easier to access last year. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankH Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Thanks for the links bangorballetboy - otherwise I would never have found my way to the correct page. Unfortunately, I click on the start arrow, and nothing happens! I think I'm going to have to give up, and wait for the snippets on youtube. It was the very first WBD which got me really interested in ballet - so I'm very disappointed. I hope the RB section will work all right on my laptop. Best wishes to all on balletcoforum - I hope they are having a more successful access to WBD than myself 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junedancer Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 3 minutes ago, Odyssey said: Me too. How not to grow an audience for ballet - just put hurdles in the way of any casual browser. I seem to remember it was easier to access last year. Yes definitely easier last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Okay, it turns out that we had 2 separate discussion threads going on this, so I've merged them into one - moans about inability to access the streams and all - and copied over some comments from the thread in News so that we had them all in one place. I'm hoping that sooner or later we'll all be happy bunnies and busy discussing the happenings onscreen I've highlighted a few segments which are particularly useful - and welcome any comments about ease of reading, colour of highlighting etc. in a thread I started a few days ago in the "About the forum" section. Now for the second half of my breakfast ... ahem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) Scottish Ballet are having class now on their Facebook stream: https://www.facebook.com/scottishballethq/videos/2493145957362524/ It started way before the 11:30 stated on one of the circulated WBD pages. Edited October 2, 2018 by Bruce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachelm Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Some apparently very talented newcomers to the Bolshoi there - I must keep an eye out for them in the future. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 ROH feed here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/royaloperahouse/videos/?ref=page_internal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Giggling at RB's pianist (Robert Clark) playing the Toreador's Song from Carmen as we were at an (excellent) abridged Carmen (with 4 singers) last night. Pleased to see Olga Evreinoff taking the class. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 How fab that the RB is doing class to The Lonely Goatherd! Love it! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 It's a bit if a joke. I can't see anything. I'm not on Facebook so that's useless as it wants me to sign up. The official website doesn't work I thought whole point was the whole thing would be streamed via that site. Too simple I guess. I have to catch up on YouTube tomorrow instead. Very disappointing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimi Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I appreciate McNally (and Campbell, I believe? I just tuned in) not talking over the class. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 The cartoon music just now made me laugh too (I can never remember which tune is Merrie Melodies and which is Looney Tunes... but it was one of them!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 The BRB will be rehearsing their new piece, Ignite, at approximately 1pm on the Hippodrome stage, featuring Brandon Lawrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 It's now available direct from the ROH website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balletfanp Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 10 minutes ago, Sim said: How fab that the RB is doing class to The Lonely Goatherd! Love it! And we have just had the Looney Tunes theme music.... 😂 I like this pianist’s musical choices! All played beautifully too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) In the original thread on News member Richard LH contributed a really useful post that gave the times (UK times) and links to numerous company contributions to WBD: It's well worth reading, but I'm pasting below in the hope it might be seen directly... Posted yesterday at 11:40 (edited) I have put UK time in red. I think they got the "UTC+" for Wellington wrong - the web tells me it is currently 11:40 pm in Wellington so they are exactly 12 hours ahead of us here. Please correct if you spot any silly errors. The Australian Ballet, Melbourne 11:00-16:00 AEST (UTC+10hrs) 02:00 - 07:00 Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow 09:00-14:00 MSK (UTC +3hrs) 7:00 - 12:00 Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet, London 12:00-17:00 BST (UTC +1hr) Guest companies: AUSTRALIA and ASIA The National Ballet of Japan, Tokyo - 11:00-11:15 JST (UTC +9hrs) 03:00 - 03:15West Australian Ballet , Perth - 14:30-14:40 AWST (UTC +8hrs) 07:30 - 07:40Queensland Ballet, Brisbane - 15:00-16:00 AEST (UTC+10hrs) 06:00 – 07:00Royal New Zealand Ballet, Wellington - 15:00-16:00 NZST (UTC +12hrs) 03:00 - 04:00 (UTC + 13 hrs) MAINLAND EUROPE Nasjonalballetten UNG / Norwegian NB 2, Oslo - 14:00 - 14:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 13:00 - 13:30The Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen - 14:15-14:45 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 13:15 - 13:45Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich - 14:30-15:00 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 13:30 - 14:00Das Stuttgarter Ballettt, Stuttgart - 15:00-15:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 14:00 - 14:30Wiener Staatsballett, Vienna - 15:15-15:45 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 14:15 - 14:45Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, Paris - 15:30-16:00 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 14:30 - 15:00Het Nationale Ballet - Dutch NB, Amsterdam - 16:00-16:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 15:00 - 15:30Kungliga Svenska/Royal Swedish Ballet Sch.Stockholm - 16:15-16:45 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 15:15 - 15:45 Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Warsaw - 17:00-17:30 CEST (UTC +2hrs) 16:00 - 16:30 UNITED KINGDOM Scottish Ballet, Glasgow - 11:00-11:30 BST (UTC +1hr)Birmingham Royal Ballet - 13:00-13:30 BST (UTC +1hr)English National Ballet, London - 14:00-14:30 BST (UTC +1hr)Royal Academy of Dance, London - 14:30-15:00 BST (UTC +1hr)Northern Ballet, Leeds - 16:00-16:30 BST (UTC +1hr) AMERICA and CANADABallet Concierto De PR, San Juan - 10:00-10:15 AST (UTC -4hrs) 15:00 - 15:15Acosta Danza, Cuba - 12:00-12:40 EDT (UTC -4hrs) 17:00 - 17:40Houston Ballet, Texas - 12:30-13:30 CDT (UTC -5hrs) 18:30 - 19:30Pacific Northwest Ballet , Seattle - 11:00-11:30 PDT (UTC -7hrs) 19:00 - 19:30Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York - 15:00-15:30 EDT (UTC -4hrs) 20:00 - 20:30Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal - 16:00-17:00 EDT (UTC -4hrs) 21:00 - 22:00 Edited 1 hour ago by alison Added highlighting in the hope of making this easier to spot Edited October 2, 2018 by Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Hey Big Spender was an unusual choice. Nice to have a bit of humour, not detracting one whit from the hard work and dedication. I wonder what the Bolshoi make of it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 And 'With A Little Bit of Luck' from My Fair Lady. I am loving his musical choices! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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