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I am extremely happy with seeing Onegin, the two full-length Prokofiev ballets, along with The Prodigal Son, Serenade, Symphony in C. I can't wait to learn who will be cast in The Prodigal Son and have my hopes up about certain dancers.

Thank you again, sf_herminator, I will keep my tickets as is. My disappointment is having to sit through De Sola's overwrought and artificial facial expressions (she was lovely two years ago as Odette with Max), but Robison is a passionate Siegfried, one of the best I've ever seen.

Thanks for letting us know. As long as my Saturday performances remain as cast, I am okay. If De Sola steps in with Hernandez on Friday (possible, don't you think?), I will not attend and will see if I can exchange for Thursday night.

A friend texted me about this. I have a ticket for Osipova on Friday with a friend flying in from the East Coast to join me. Please keep us posted if you learn anything about shuffling of the casts. I was looking forward to seeing Nikisha Fogo and Daniel Camargo on Saturday afternoon, and I doubt that will be moved, but I was especially looking forward to Aaron Robison and Jimison on Saturday night, and I will be very unhappy if I don't see him. Glad to hear it went so well for Jimison and the audience was so pleased.

Broken Wings I could see again and again. Absolutely wonderful.

The recent SFB Carmen did not receive across-the-board "very good reviews." It was panned by some. I sat through it twice. It was choreographically uneven and boring, and had a trite plot with a ridiculous ending. You can read Balletalert comments under the subject, San Francisco Ballet (including mine). The set and Carmen's red dress were very good; Joseph Walsh stole the show; the dancers did their best with what they were given, but it was a washout, especially when compared with Ochoa's Broken Wings, which is an exceptional, brilliant work.

I love Jeffrey Cirio and enjoyed Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker, so I have high hopes.

Swan Lake is coming to Los Angeles after a long absence. LA Music Center's 2024/2025 Dance Season, aka Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, is announced: Urban Bush Women Nov. 22-24, 2024 Batsheva Dance Company Feb. 14-16, 2025 Alvin Ailey Dance Theater March 2-6, 2025 Grupo Corpo May 2-4, 2025 Swan Lake - Boston Ballet June 26-29, 2025

The last time I saw Kondaurova was in fall of 2019 in La Bayadere and Diamonds. She was breathtaking.

I would love to see Scarlett's Hummingbird again. I remember how beautiful Lorena Feijo and Victor Luiz were in the pas de deux, and later saw YY Tan dance it. The ballet was removed by SFB from the announced season's repertoire when the Scarlett controversy surfaced. I knew that the Joffrey danced it in February. Ashley Wheater has been steadfast where the Scarlett ballets are concerned.

I was there. She was superb and had the most successful characterization in making the two roles different that I have seen.

The director's husband is featured disproportionately in photographs by SFB online (there's a new one from Mere Mortals that I could not believe had been chosen) and on Facebook, and, if you add the director's brother-in-law, it's even more disproportionate in comparison with the other male principals. And I. Hernandez is dancing Swan Lake with Osipova. Houston Ballet is performing The Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, and Theme and Variations next season - all perfect for Angelo Greco. He will be missed in SF and has a devoted following there. I especially loved him in Rhoden's Let's Begin at the End and Robbins's Other Dances, both of which he was paired with Frances Chung.

I think that Manon would have been a better encore program than Frankenstein. Audiences love it and word-of-mouth would work in its favor. However, there are ten Manon performances already scheduled in January/February.

I love this! Thanks so much for posting it.

Both Aaron Robison and Joseph Walsh have danced Des Grieux in Manon with Houston Ballet. Lescaut, Manon's brother, is another plumb role.

Madrid may need a dose of Swan Lake. I know that Los Angeles certainly does, as the last time we had Swan Lake at the Los Angeles Music Center or Segerstrom Center of the Arts was around 2012. I was advised by an excellent source that we would have Swan Lake in 2025, but that season has not yet been announced officially, so we wait a bit longer for confirmation ....

Thank you for providing the links to the new soloists moving from ENB to SFB. They have both performed principal roles and Victor Prigent was a trainee with SFB in 2015/2016.

Aaron Robison also danced with Houston Ballet.

Especially interesting in light of the huge donation announced, with quite the majority chunk to be for new works. Maybe this will come to fruition in 2025-2026.

I agree as well about wishing there were a program with something lighter for the audience and the dancers.

Akram Khan. And I did like his Giselle very, very much, which I saw twice danced by ENB.

I am intrigued by who will be cast as Monsieur GM and the Gaoler in Manon, having seen The Royal Ballet’s great dance-actor Gary Avis in these roles in February in London. Manon will be a good ballet for audiences and the dancers. Within the Golden Hour is my favorite Wheeldon work. sf herminator, have you seen Creature? I saw ENB dance it in Chicago two years ago and disliked it intensely with its horrid treatment of the female protagonist devised by its choreographer- as bas an experience I have ever sat through in dance or opera. It would not go over well in SF. I had a ticket for a second show and gladly did not attend a second time. Glad to hear that Max and Dores are returning.

Gillian Murphy was a great improvement over Teuscher. Hee Seo was also very moving and had a beautiful expressive range throughout. Loved Shevchenko and Forster’s intensity in the Orlando section. I have never been a Boylston fan, but her exit in The Waves after Woolf kisses her forehead (Boylston as Woolf’s sister) moved me to tears.

I am attending the Friday Osipova and the Saturday performances. I just saw ABT’s premiere of Woolf Works and Camargo was the expressive standout, unsurprisingly so as he was a principal with the Stuttgart, so I look forward to seeing him in Swan Lake in three weeks.

The cast list shown on the link for the Woolf Works general rehearsal cast shows the cast for The Royal Ballet's general rehearsal last season and not for ABT's general rehearsal occurring in two days on Wednesday. I attended The Royal Ballet's general rehearsal and it was wonderful.