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Helene

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  1. Caligula (Vivaldi/Le Riche) Internet http://www.opera-de-paris.fr/Saison0506/spectacle.asp?Id=833 Click "RÉSERVER" and from the next screen, you will be able to click the little UK flag in the upper right hand corner to order in English. Phone: In France: 0 892 89 90 90 (0,337€ la minute) From outside France: + 33 (1) 72 29 35 35 Palais Garnier
  2. Romeo & Juliet (Prokofiev/Andersen) Ticket info: To purchase show tickets, please call 602-381-1096 1-888-3BALLET online ticketing at www.balletaz.org Symphony Hall
  3. Concerto Barocco (Johann Sebastian Bach/George Balanchine) Jardí Tancat (Maria del Mar Bonet/Nacho Duato) World Premiere! (TBD/Marco Goecke) Hail to the Conquering Hero (George Frideric Handel/Kent Stowell) Ticket info: Call the PNB Box Office at 206-441-2424. (Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm) Visit the PNB Box Office, 301 Mercer Street, Seattle. (Monday–Friday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm) Purchase online at www.pnb.org McCaw Hall
  4. I'm going to attend a performance at the Opera Bastille in a couple of weeks, and I have a few questions about the house: Will there be enough signage in the house to be able to find my section easily? Is coat check required? (I'll be wearing a very light, short coat.) Is there a cost, or do the coat check people get tipped? Is there any specific vocabulary that would help? I'm in the cultural anxiety pre-planning phase of my trip and would appreciate any help.
  5. I love the women in Smiles of a Summer Night and care about all of them. It's the only Bergman movie I ever "got."
  6. The original strategy used by AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc. was to control the "portal" by pre-packaging the world-view, with ample advertising. While it is still possible to default to each provider's default portal, there are many ways to customize the information that appears. The next step is to leverage RSS to make everything customizable. The current general vision of the Internet is to use it to choose exactly what one wants to see, on demand, and customizing the web experience to filter out the "clutter." (We see this with VCR's/TiVo, as we fast-forward through the commercials, commentary, etc. I've just heard from a friend that one sports network packages the "fast" version of football into about a half hour, getting rid of the huddles, time outs, etc., so that only the action is shown.) However, while the entire Internet is available, how to pre-package the options and tie it into revenue-producing "services" is the key toward "winning" the customizable blank slate. Whether people will customize with pasteurized, pre-packaged tripe or expand their world view using full resources is to be seen. Search and a little patience are the most powerful tools we have to go beyond conventional news sources. The Internet still remains the cheapest way to publish. There's no need for distributors, shelf space, incentives to carry, etc.. Wherever there is connectivity there is information. To bring this back to ballet, frankly, I have more confidence in the reviews of the posters on this board than I do in almost any newspaper critic in the country, including The New York Times. And for more contemporary work, I'd rather read On the Boards' "Blog the Boards" than a conventional arts critic on the same work.
  7. Welcome to Ballet Talk, Blue Bird. We don't allow tape trading on Ballet Talk, but if there are any commercially available videos of Sarabia, we'll let you know on this thread.
  8. La Bayadere Ticket Information: English site not ready as of 14 Sep, but ticket ordering in English is. Tickets may be purchased online at: http://boxoffice.bolshoi.ru/eng/sales.html Site instructions: If you don't have an account, register for one. If you have one, login. Scroll through the calendar until you see the month of the performance you want to attend. For the performance, select either "in picture," which will show you the theater with the available seats represented by colored dots, or "in table," which will allow you to choose tickets by price and section. Select the dot(s) for the seats you wish to purchase or check the seats from the list, and click "Add to Basket." Review the summary and confirm the order. Once confirmed, you'll get a confirmation number. Choose the payment method. If "cash" is an option, you must pick up the tickets within the time it says on the site, or they will be released. (Usually within 3 days.) If you choose credit card, you will pay through the ASSIST site (which the Mariinsky also uses). If your card has gone through, the confirmation page will show this in red type at the top of the page. Print the "confirmation certificate" from the confirmation page, and bring it with you when you pick up tickets at the box office. If you are not also bringing the credit card you used to make the purchase, jot down the last four digits of the credit card on the certificate. New Hall
  9. Madame Butterfly (Puccini/Nixon) http://www.theatre-royal-norwich.co.uk/site.php?action=display_show&showID=191 Ticket Information: Online: http://www.theatre-royal-norwich.co.uk/site.php?action=display_show&showID=191 (Click link for chosen date) Phone: 01603 63 00 00 Norwich Theatre Royal
  10. The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky/MacMillan) http://www.ballet.org.uk/beauty_overview.htm Online: http://www.getlive.co.uk/events/event_info.aspx?rid=2274 Phone: 0870 160 2832 In Person: Bristol Hippodrome, St Augustine's Parade, Bristol, BS1 4UZ. Bristol Hippodrome
  11. BODYTORQUE, TWO New Choreography www.bodytorqueballet.com.au Ticket Information: Phone to book 02 92501999 Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
  12. Ploughing the Dark (Kurek/Slipper) Duet (Bryars/Kabaniaev) Enragé (From Howling Cat) (Chang, Rodriguez, Anderson, Villoldo, Gade, Piazzolla, Nyman/Peterson) TBA (TBD/Carney) On the Edge of Silence (no music/Veggetti) http://www.wguc.org/cincinnatiballet/season0506/Studio_Series.htm Ticket Information: Online: http://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=NW&linkID=cinballet&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode= Mickey Kaplan Performance Studio Cincinnati Ballet Center
  13. Emeralds (Faure/Balanchine) Rubies (Stravinsky/Balanchine) Diamonds (Tchaikovsky/Balanchine) Internet: http://www.opera-de-paris.fr/Saison0506/spectacle.asp?Id=835 Click "RÉSERVER" and from the next screen, you will be able to click the little UK flag in the upper right hand corner to order in English. Phone: In France: 0 892 89 90 90 (0,337€ la minute) From outside France: + 33 (1) 72 29 35 35 Palais Garnier
  14. Romeo & Juliet (Prokofiev/Andersen) Ticket info: To purchase show tickets, please call 602-381-1096 1-888-3BALLET online ticketing at www.balletaz.org Symphony Hall
  15. Concerto Barocco (Johann Sebastian Bach/George Balanchine) Jardí Tancat (Maria del Mar Bonet/Nacho Duato) World Premiere! (TBD/Marco Goecke) Hail to the Conquering Hero (George Frideric Handel/Kent Stowell) Ticket info: Call the PNB Box Office at 206-441-2424. (Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm) Visit the PNB Box Office, 301 Mercer Street, Seattle. (Monday–Friday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm) Purchase online at www.pnb.org McCaw Hall
  16. I stopped doing the NY Times Sunday crossword because I didn't want to buy the entire paper and throw 3/4 of it away every week. I now happily peruse the online version and subscribe to their premium crossword service. I even more happily peruse washingtonpost.com. I love that there aren't space constraints on the web and that I can read new articles as they come out.
  17. Madame Butterfly (Puccini/Nixon) http://www.theatre-royal-norwich.co.uk/site.php?action=display_show&showID=191 Ticket Information: Online: http://www.theatre-royal-norwich.co.uk/site.php?action=display_show&showID=191 (Click link for chosen date) Phone: 01603 63 00 00 Norwich Theatre Royal
  18. The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky/MacMillan) http://www.ballet.org.uk/beauty_overview.htm Online: http://www.getlive.co.uk/events/event_info.aspx?rid=2274 Phone: 0870 160 2832 In Person: Bristol Hippodrome, St Augustine's Parade, Bristol, BS1 4UZ. Bristol Hippodrome
  19. Ploughing the Dark (Kurek/Slipper) Duet (Bryars/Kabaniaev) Enragé (From Howling Cat) (Chang, Rodriguez, Anderson, Villoldo, Gade, Piazzolla, Nyman/Peterson) TBA (TBD/Carney) On the Edge of Silence (no music/Veggetti) http://www.wguc.org/cincinnatiballet/season0506/Studio_Series.htm Ticket Information: Online: http://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=NW&linkID=cinballet&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode= Mickey Kaplan Performance Studio Cincinnati Ballet Center
  20. Emeralds (Faure/Balanchine) Rubies (Stravinsky/Balanchine) Diamonds (Tchaikovsky/Balanchine) Internet: http://www.opera-de-paris.fr/Saison0506/spectacle.asp?Id=835 Click "RÉSERVER" and from the next screen, you will be able to click the little UK flag in the upper right hand corner to order in English. Phone: In France: 0 892 89 90 90 (0,337€ la minute) From outside France: + 33 (1) 72 29 35 35 Palais Garnier
  21. Unfortunately, it only passed in the Senate. The appropriations bill to which it is attached has to be negotiated with the House before it can be passed and signed. It's not quite a done deal. One of the reasons that Zavozin hasn't been named is that it is Belbin's lawyers who've been working on the legislation and have been cited in the press, and Zavozin's lawyers haven't released any statements. "Rumors" and "stories' in figure skating are essentially speculation by fans in an attempt to "follow the money" when the unexpected happens, which seems to occur most often when a skater or team is no longer considered a threat or suddenly becomes one. The rise of Belbin/Agosto is advantageous to different people for different reasons, even if none of them acted to make it happen. Since posting rumors are against Ballet Talk policy, we leave them to the skating boards The nationalities of the judges for the Olympics have been published by the ISU, and it's going to be an interesting few months leading up to the competition. The only question is going to be which judges the computer will choose to count. It's been hard to take judging seriously when the godparents and relatives of skaters are selected to judge family members or when officials who are active coaches are involved in determining the values for their own teams' rivals. In ballet, there's nothing unusual for there to be direct and indirect family connections within companies; gene pools run in the family. In sports, which are supposed to be "objective," nepotism and favoritism are considered unsportsmanlike.
  22. Madame Butterfly (Puccini/Nixon) http://www.theatre-royal-norwich.co.uk/site.php?action=display_show&showID=191 Ticket Information: Online: http://www.theatre-royal-norwich.co.uk/site.php?action=display_show&showID=191 (Click link for chosen date) Phone: 01603 63 00 00 Norwich Theatre Royal
  23. The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky/MacMillan) http://www.ballet.org.uk/beauty_overview.htm Online: http://www.getlive.co.uk/events/event_info.aspx?rid=2274 Phone: 0870 160 2832 In Person: Bristol Hippodrome, St Augustine's Parade, Bristol, BS1 4UZ. Bristol Hippodrome
  24. Ploughing the Dark (Kurek/Slipper) Duet (Bryars/Kabaniaev) Enragé (From Howling Cat) (Chang, Rodriguez, Anderson, Villoldo, Gade, Piazzolla, Nyman/Peterson) TBA (TBD/Carney) On the Edge of Silence (no music/Veggetti) http://www.wguc.org/cincinnatiballet/season0506/Studio_Series.htm Ticket Information: Online: http://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=NW&linkID=cinballet&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode= Mickey Kaplan Performance Studio Cincinnati Ballet Center
  25. Dracula (Mahler/Godden) http://www.rwb.org/season/dracula.html Details -- time(s) and ticket information are not updated on the site as of 13 Sept 05. http://www.rwb.org/tour/westtour.html#Regina
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