Mashinka
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Here in the UK Covid infections are very high, 1 in 16, but people are now out and about in large numbers and at the Festival Hall last night it was a full house, much appreciated by the conductor, Vladimir Jurowski who commented that continental venues still aren't filling. That concert by the way was Mitsuko Uchida playing the Beethoven 1st piano concerto so very much worth the risk. However many older people are still not venturing out and I'm seeing lot's of empty seats at performances with just a few exceptions.
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Young people have been leaving Russia in significant numbers for over a decade and the war has caused an estimated 200,000 to leave. Favoured destinations are Armenia, Georgia and Turkey. They all appear highly educated. Apparently Russia is happy to see them go as they are considered potential dissenters.
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I'm told there is a vacancy in ENB for a male principal, perhaps he would consider joining them.
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I've just heard on the news that Makhar Vaziev has signed a petition against the war.
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If Mr Ratmansky is in need of a job, perhaps he could consider the vacancy at ENB.
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I was in a lift in a continental theatre when the door opened onto a lower floor and some twenty corps girls were in the corridor with MV who was literally screaming at them. A friend of mine told me had an experience with him while watching a rehearsal when he was aggressively shouted out and told to stop taking photos, my pal not only wasn't, I don't think he's owned a camera in his life. Some tempers in the ballet world are legendary.
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The hot rumour in London is that the Bolshoi will be coming this summer. The last visit was 2019 and I was very unhappy with the ballerinas for the reasons outlined by volcanohunter. That things have got worse is no incentive for me to look forward to seeing them. A lot of the fans will be excited to get a glimpse of Tikhomirova as she is almost ludicrously popular with the fans here considering the very little she does. The other big favourite is Krysanova. I first saw the company in 1974 and how I loved the Moscow style, so bold, so uninhibited and so exciting. How can it have vanished to become a parade of crotch flashing stick insects? One last thing, yes, Vaziev is a bully towards the corps, I've heard him in action. Not nice.
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ENB directors have largely ignored the body of work that former directors have introduced. To her credit Ms Rojo continued with Manon and Le Jeune Homme et la Mort brought in by Wayne Eagling. I think only Etudes has endured through the years but with no set to speak of I imagine it is cheap to revive.
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Raymonda opened last night. I;m told notices were mixed here's a view from Macaulay. https://slippedisc.com/2022/01/alastair-macaulay-tamara-rojo-does-violence-to-this-ballet/
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I had to provide all that for Salzburg last year with the exception of proof of booster as they weren't available then. I turned up wearing an N95 but was told to remove it and was given an FFP2. We weren't allowed to sit together, everyone in the audience had an empty seat on each side and front and back. However none of the performers wore masks as in Rome.
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Over the years ENB has struggled to balance the books. When Rojo 'took over' (ahem) from Wayne Eagling, the company was in excellent financial health. It will be interesting to see the financial position post Covid. I understand Ms Rojo commanded a substantial salary in London so I doubt if that influenced her move to the US. Perhaps SFB has better financial reserves?
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English National Ballet season 2021-2022
Mashinka replied to California's topic in English National Ballet
Raymonda performances now reduced to seven. The poster for the ballet is of a Florence Nightingale figure holding a lamp aloft with a leaping male dancer in the background. Badly chosen. Casual ballet goers would respond to a ballerina in a tutu, something to take the kids to. Not the way to sell an unfamiliar work. -
Women and Music
Mashinka replied to Tom47's topic in Other Performing & Fine Arts: Performances, Exhibits, Films, and Events
Ethel Smythe's opera The Wreckers will be performed at Glyndebourne this summer. It still gets the odd performance, but this may be the first at a major house for some years. I'm told it's good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreckers_(opera)#Performance_history -
English National Ballet season 2021-2022
Mashinka replied to California's topic in English National Ballet
Four performances of the upcoming Raymonda have been cancelled due to Covid problems. However none of the Nutcrackers have been cancelled. Raymonda isn't selling, could that be the true reason four performances are off sale? -
Women and Art
Mashinka replied to Tom47's topic in Other Performing & Fine Arts: Performances, Exhibits, Films, and Events
Last week I visited the Villa Borghese Gallery in Rome and was delighted that one of the rooms was dominated by a huge canvas by Lavinia Fontana. Female artists are rarely so prominently displayed. https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/en/opere/minerva-dressing/