Lynette H

More ballet streamings announced: live streaming of the Within the Golden Hour programme on 13 December (£10) recorded stream of Enigma Variations (from 2019) on 4 dec to 3 Jan (£3). Also live concert performances available to buy - Ariodante. https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events

Another paid-for stream from the Royal Ballet - Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern, recorded in 2019. Available 6 Nov to 5 Dec. Price is £3. https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/flight-pattern-stream-details It is possible that another programme, which was to be live on stage next week may be filmed / streamed, but no details available yet.

From reviews in the Financial Times and others it appears that there was an interval for those in the hall, and we at home were watching something billed as live but which had in fact started earlier and was being shown with a half hour or so delay. The Marston piece is new to the RB. It is from a longer narrative work she made in 2014, based on Three Sisters, and the excerpt shows us the emotionally fraught interactions between Masha and Vershinin. There isn't much background detail available from the ROH that I've found. Kaneko and Clark have an understandably strong connection.

The RB programme of Friday 9th had a small invited audience (Distanced) in the house - students from the Upper School, and some health workers. So there was a surprising amount of applause to give a sense of occasion. The evening ran for nearly three hours - good value but a break would have been more comfortable. There are two ballet programmes planned for November according to an ROH email sent to Friends. One runs 4th - 7th November, and the second 10th to 14th. For these there will be some seats available in the house, or I think you can opt for live streaming. (That's the way the two opera programmes currently on sale are presented). No details on content yet except that one is supposed to include a full version of Elite Syncopations and the second a full version of Within the Golden Hour.

It is back. Details here https://www.roh.org.uk/news/worldballetday-returns-on-29-october-2020 Participants include the Royal Ballet, Bolshoi, the Australian Ballet.

Details of Dances at a Gathering are now available and booking is open. Available or 30 days from 25 Sept. Casing is available here too https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/dances-at-a-gathering-2020-details

The ROH will be making the following available in cinemas this autumn Giselle 20 Oct Nutcracker from 10 December. There are also paid-for streaming of Carmen Dances at a Gathering at £3 per household. Lots more detail here https://www.roh.org.uk/news/the-royal-opera-house-launches-autumn-digital-programme-with-a-new-series-of-friday-premieres-and-screenings-on-sky-arts Also a live stream of the Royal Ballet on Friday 9 October. Tickets not on sale yet. No details of the programme yet either. It was announced in an email to Friends as follows "For our ballet fans we hope you will join us on Friday 9 October for a live-streamed performance with The Royal Ballet, where the whole Company will be reunited on their home stage for the first time in seven months. Save the date in your diary and look out for further details of this spectacular event. "

From the Roundhouse / Sadler's Wells, free streaming of Akram Khan's Until the Lions. Until 10 Sept. https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/home/round-your-house/until-the-lions/ If you do choose to watch it really is worth reading up a little on the background to the narrative - available in the programme booklet from the link above.

New work - some filmed pre lockdown, some during - from Scottish Ballet, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival digital offerings. A series of short films, in total about half an hour.

The next offering from the ROH is Kate Prince / Zoonation's The Mad Hatters Tea Party. Originally commissioned by the Royal Ballet for the Linbury as a contrast while Alice in Wondeland was on the main stage, this version was filmed at the Roundhouse.

ENB streams are only available for 48 hours usually.

The ROH offer paid for streaming of two live events on 20 and 7th June, each available for 14 days afterwards. (One on 13 June was free and still available on youTube.) https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/festival/live-from-covent-garden-details It's £4.99 per household. Trailer https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/live-from-covent-garden-20-june-details 20th June - Song of the Earth with Sarah Connolly and five minutes of ballet, Muntagirov sublime in Ashton's Dance of the Blessed Spirits. The 27th features the following Programme for the performance* J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043:I Vivace II Largo ma non tanto – Vasko Vassilev and Sergey Levitin (violins), Patrick Milne (harpsichord) G.F. Handel: ‘Where shall I fly?’ (Hercules) – Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Dejanira), Patrick Milne G. Rossini: ‘Ah! mi perdo mi confondo’ (L’Italiana in Algeri) – Blaise Malaba (Mustafa) and Filipe Manu (Lindoro), Edmund Whitehead F. Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op.49, II Andante con moto tranquillo – Vasko Vassilev (violin), Christopher Vanderspar (cello), Antonio Pappano (piano) G. Donizetti: ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ (L’elisir d’amore) – Filipe Manu (Nemorino), Patrick Milne and soloists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House A. Catalani: ‘Ebben? Ne andrò lontana‘ from La Wally – Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (Wally), Edmund Whitehead R. Leoncavallo: ‘Sei proprio tu che hai scritto ciò?’ (La bohème) – Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Musetta) and Filipe Manu (Marcello), Patrick Milne P. Sorazabal: ‘No puede ser’ (La tabernera del puerto) – Andrés Presno (Leandro), Antonio Pappano G. Gershwin ‘Summertime’ (Porgy and Bess) – Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (Bess), Antonio Pappano G. Gershwin ‘Bess, you is my woman now’ (Porgy and Bess) – Blaise Malaba (Porgy) and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (Bess), Antonio Pappano G. Verdi: Brindisi ‘Libiamo ne’ lieti calici’ (La Traviata) – Filipe Manu (Alfredo) and Company, TBC Patrick Milne/Edmund Whitehead Kenneth MacMillan: Concerto, second movement pas de deux – Fumi Kaneko and Reece Clarke, Kate Shipway (Piano) and soloists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Christopher Wheeldon: Within the Golden Hour pas de deux – Mayara Magri and Matthew Ball *Some details may be subject to change.

Dancers of the Royal Ballet in a new Wheeldon piece. Some nifty editing

Dutch National Ballet have a David Dawson program this week from 13 to 20th June https://www.operaballet.nl/en/online/ballet/streaming#dawson

It's interesting to see just how popular some of the free streams are. The National Theatre Live production of A Streetcar named Desire with Gillian Andersen is currently showing on YouTube as having 835 thousand views. That's a massive audience. It's not easy to tell just how many views there are of some of the productions that are only available for a couple of days. But it does make you think that if there is that appetite out there then maybe some creative minds can come up with new and better models for streaming live performance to an audience prepared to pay.

From the UK: The ROH offerings are up for quite a while - The Winters Tale (Wheeldon) is up until 1 May with the original first cast from 2014 https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/the-winters-tale-stream-details This week's ENB stream is Fantastic Beings by Aszure Barton https://www.ballet.org.uk/blog-detail/fantastic-beings-aszure-barton/ Coming soon from 15th May for a week from Sadlers Wells is Cloud Gate Dance Theatre https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2020/digital-stage-cloud-gate-dance-theatre-of-taiwan-moon-water/ National Theatre live has 4 new plays streaming over the next four weeks. These include 21- 28 May Gillian Andersen in A Streetcar named Desire and on 4 - 11th June Tom Hiddleston in Coriolanus, the Donmar production. It was extremely difficult to get tickets for these at the time Their Youtube channel is here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDq1XzCY0NIOYVJvEMQjqw

English National Ballet's stream this week is Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet with Cojocaru and Hernandez. Available for 48 hours only from 7pm UK time 6th May.

Dutch National Ballet Saturday 02 May 19.00 Hans van Manen: Part One Saturday 09 May 19.00 Swan Lake Saturday 16 May 19.00 Hans van Manen: Part Two https://www.operaballet.nl/en/online/ballet/streaming Van Manen Part 1 is Trois Gnossiennes, Solo and Adagio Hammerklavier. The Swan Lake is by Rudi van Danzig. Each of their productions has remained up for a week so far.

Not dance, I know, but I thought you might be interested in more free streamed performances coming up from the National Theatre in London. From today it's Twelfth Night, and in the next two weeks on their You Tube Channel (from 7pm on Thurs for a week) "Frankenstein - Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, alternating the roles of Frankenstein and his creation. Antony & Cleopatra - the acclaimed, sold-out production with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo." I saw both of these live in the theatre and enjoyed them very much. Details ill be on https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home

English National Ballet are streaming Broken Wings, by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa based on the life of Frida Kahlo, featuring Tamara Rojo and Irek Mukhamedov as Frida and her husband. Available for 48 hours from 7pm British Standard time on Wed 22 April. Filmed in 2016. You tube link will be here (as below) on the day. The corps are all dancing Fridas - versions of her self portraits. The following Weds will be the company in Akram Khan's Dust.

There's a lot of stuff available in the UK which should be available globally. National Theatre - one play a week, starting off with One Man, Two Guvnors, available on YouTube https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home Hampstead Theatre, again one play per week https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/ Royal Opera House, again one production per week https://www.roh.org.uk/streaming Acis and Galatea, The Royal Opera, 2009 – 3 April 2020, 7pm BST Così fan tutte, The Royal Opera, 2010 – 10 April 2020, 7pm BST The Metamorphosis, The Royal Ballet, 2013 – 17 April 2020, 7pm BST Gloriana, The Royal Opera, 2013 – 24 April 2020, 7pm BST The Winter’s Tale, The Royal Ballet, 2014 – 1 May 2020, 7pm BST Sadler's Wells https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2020/digital-stage/ Marquee TV is offering a free 30 day trial. I haven't tried this out, but the link is here, and there looks to be a fair mount vailable, including the Akram Khan Giselle. https://www.marquee.tv/

Filmed in 2019. A documentary. Lead up to her last performance aged 53, in Japan, with Bonelli and Irek Mukhamedov. Available to 31 March. The pain and difficulty of performance is obvious and very touching. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3016062/

Details are on the ROH news page here https://www.roh.org.uk/news/the-royal-opera-house-launches-a-programme-of-free-online-content-for-the-culturally-curious-at-home "This will include the following productions offered on demand and for free via the ROH’s Facebook and YouTube channels: Peter and the Wolf, The Royal Ballet, 2010 – 27 March 2020, 7pm GMT Acis and Galatea, The Royal Opera, 2009 – 3 April 2020, 7pm BST Così fan tutte, The Royal Opera, 2010 – 10 April 2020, 7pm BST The Metamorphosis, The Royal Ballet, 2013 – 17 April 2020, 7pm BST Today we begin the rollout of this free programme of curated content, and invite our audiences to sign up for a free 30-day trial on Marquee TV, the international multi-genre performing arts streaming service. In collaboration with the Royal Opera House, Marquee TV will bring you the very best of world-class performances on demand." Acis and Galatea, if I recall correctly, has choreography by McGregor. The Metamorphosis I think must be the version by Arthur Pita. Ed Watson turns into an insect.

There's an article here about how the work of choreographers like Alston can be preserved (his archive is going to the Victoria & Albert Museum) https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/mar/12/step-in-time-how-to-save-the-legacy-of-dance-from-being-lost-in-history

Dancers from NYCB were scheduled to perform at Sadler's Wells in London on March 19-21 as part of a mixed bill themed on the work on Nico Muhly. The work was by Peck. NYCB have withdrawn from this in an effort to limit their international travel. Ticket holders have been offered the option of a refund. Osipova will appear instead in Flutter, a duet to Muhly's music. Revised listing is here https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2020/cunningham-keegan-dolan-peck-nico-muhly-drawn-lines/ I'm sorry not to be seeing the dancers as this would have been the first visit from the company in quite some time, but I understand the circumstances.