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The new online ticket sales regulations finally in English (pdf) :

https://www.bolshoi.ru/upload/medialibrary/343/3437579e7b485cc5d7c04afdead11f3a.pdf

1 minute ago, Mashinka said:

VM looks very good with Osipova

Muntagirov is the only RB dancer I would accept as compulsory replacement for Hallberg, but as you say "chacun a son gout".

57 minutes ago, meunier fan said:

with those last act Manon throws I doubt that Osipova (or O'H for that matter) is too eager to take too great a risk

Under the circumstances I am glad that the replacement is Shklyarov - I wouldn't make a 4 hour flight to see any "rising stars" !

http://www.roh.org.uk/news/cast-change-manon-on-5-and-13-april-2018

My warped luck it seems - don't buy tix for the dates I am booking - check with me first !! 

PS :  wouldn't be surprised if Natasha drops out too between now and 13th April 

6 minutes ago, Buddy said:

So tonight it’s Oxana as Odette/Odile (Swan Lake). This is the performance that I’ve probably most looked forward to, along with Alina Somova’s Cinderella excerpt. They both did beautifully at the Gala, perhaps the highlights, for me, so far.

Wish I could stay on as long as you can -  afraid of finding on my return that my wife has had the locks changed and filed for divorce ! 

FLEURDELIS where are you ?? Our primas can hold their own against Yana Salenko when it comes to 190-degree splits - see for yourself :

Don Q continues its run with tix selling out within 10 mins of online sales opening. Best seat price 12.50 US Dollars ...... how about that for state subsidy ?? Some pix from this production :

10 hours ago, Buddy said:

Renata Shakirova  — An Absolutely Precious Bundle of Sunshine Sweetheart !

I fully subscribe to your description. My "big discovery" of 2015 (as Kitri) a couple of weeks after her debut. Finally got to meet her backstage last month after the Shurale matinee.

10 hours ago, Buddy said:

he kept bumping his head on the stars.

Buddy I had the same feeling when I saw Kim as Solor two years ago - was wondering when he was going to hit the roof !

Sad to learn that I have thrown away money - these two evenings were initially posted as "ballet soloists' galas" and I thought they would be similar to the two evenings of "gala-concert" in October 2016 which were very enjoyable. I got tix for both evenings and suddenly just a week or two ago these two events became "A Play for Him" ..... ????   Now look at what program has been posted :  https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/10000/

18 minutes ago, Gnossie said:

Masha was really looking at you! Didn't you blow a kiss to her?

Эти большие чёрные глаза ...  sigh !

4 minutes ago, Drew said:

Kondaurova looks like she is signing an autograph for someone (the woman standing in front of the box looking up at her)

Yes - she came round twice, the other time for Teryoshkina

2 hours ago, Gnossie said:

It has been posted several several several times before, mostly by me 😂💔

Sorry, didn't notice - could have expired if older than one year. No harm in posting anew in case people had not seen it before.

Primas galore at the Petipa Gala

I must have been gawking open-mouthed at Masha for minutes at the Petipa Gala past Sunday before she gave me this look 

I have posted Ismene Brown's 2009 Moscow interview with Vikharev under "Writings on Ballet". With his Sleeping Beauty reconstruction (?) revived at Mariinka and his Coppelia coming up at the Bolshoy on April 20th this might be well worth a read by any members who have not read it before. (incidentally, I am hoping to see Coppelia at the Bolshoy on April 20th and 21st - so sad he isn't around to supervise it)

On 3/10/2018 at 11:09 PM, Quinten said:

This.  I love the way Sizova seems to be under enchantment, dreaming, not quite awake even as she dances.  In the Tereshkina video above, she seems wide awake which I guess is just a different interpretation, but I prefer this one.

Sorry I forgot to reply to this reference - seems I somehow missed it and then looked for it myself. That makes two of us who miss this beautiful melody - glad that sometimes we are in sync ! 

Ismene Brown had gone to Moscow in 2009 for the Bolshoy premiere of Vikharev's recons of Coppelia and interviewed him at the time. Last June she included this interview in her obituary for Vikharev posted on ArtsDesk. I found it extremely interesting and posted it on this forum, and I am bringing it up again in case it had escaped the attention of some members at the time, well worth reading imho at a time when we are discussing Vikharev's SB which started off this movement in 1999 :

http://www.theartsdesk.com/dance/sergei-vikharev-master-ballet-reconstructor-1962-2017

4 hours ago, Rosalie said:

there's no shame for being a naysayer of Skorik. People with different tastes and standards go to ballet for different reasons. 

Certainly !  My ballet friends at home and abroad quite frequently agree to disagree with me, especially those who became ballet-goers from an early age, not at 65+ like me ! 

1 hour ago, Gnossie said:

The reconstruction of The Sleeping Beauty performs Aurora's variation to the Gold Fairy music from Act III, just as it happened on the premier since Petipa discarded the music Tchaikovsky had originally composed for Aurora's variation. This is historically accurate

Thank you very much for this info !

10 minutes ago, MadameP said:

That music is the music that Sergeyev uses for Aurora's solo in the Dream act, and in the Vikharev reconstruction, Aurora's variation is set the one Sergeyev used for the Lilac Fairy, so no, you did not hear it!  

большое спасибо - Я подозревал, что так 

Dear Buddy and MadameP  :  I thought I did not hear one of my most beloved melodies on Friday evening - it's at time 5:27 on this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo1c7h059Vw&list=PLBA87816B22473D82&index=14

Am I right or was I dozing off at the time ??  Would appeciate if you can confirm or deny. Btw this is an excellent annotated set of videos for the complete SB music - my gratitude to whoever took the trouble.

1 hour ago, Buddy said:

Not really. To each his own. The Gala -- I Loved It !

I am glad that you enjoyed it - I was expecting something bigger and "better".  Before they posted this "insipid" program how many people who bought tix blind like myself would have expected to get new choreo and Balanchine instead of classic Petipa ??  Why not put on the wonderful 3rd Act of Paquita which is in repertory, and the "white scene" from Bayadere for example, to make it a true celebration of Petipa, instead of Keikhel and Balanchine ??  But the Vikharev Sleeping Beauty on Friday eve, at the historic stage with the panorama and the violin solo more than made up for the "gala".

20 minutes ago, Buddy said:

Your link didn't work for me but googling "financial times mariinsky sleeping beauty" did.

For the benefit of any members who may not be aware :  a very simple trick to bypass login for reading articles on subscribers-only websites such as the FT or NYT etc is to copy and google the "subject" ie the headline. For this Laura Cappelle review it is :  Petipa Celebration, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg — a rich tapestry brought to life

PS :  I may incur the wrath of Buddy for saying this, but I think the two stars Cappelle awarded to the gala is very generous, over the top 

For those who can tune into Mezzo or Mezzo Live HD but missed last evening's livecast, the recast times (CET) are under this link : http://www.mezzo.tv/en/our-programs/soiree_hommage_a_marius_petipa_theatre_mariinsky_11032018

6 hours ago, Buddy said:

Last night Oxana Skorik accomplished this with her beautiful duet from The Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Dear Buddy imho with her pdd performance in MN Dream last night Aksana Skorik put the naysayers on and off this forum to shame ...... Russianballetvideos do you copy ???  I'll stop there so as not to become more unpopular !

6 hours ago, Buddy said:

Alina Somova appeared with Xander Parish performing the final act duet from The Sleeping Beauty and once again I was in the heavens

First time I saw Xander Parish live .... damn good dancer imho, technique as good as the other Marii male leads I have seen so far excepting maybe Kimin Kim, good "princely" looking ..... so maybe Fateyev is not as dumb as some people make him out to be. I recorded the Mezzo livecast and they did an interview with Fateyev at the interval, have not been able to watch it yet.