PeggyR Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 San Francisco Ballet's 2012 season is announced (unfortunately, the season brochure pdf won't open for me for some reason, but here's the link in case somebody else can get to it): http://media.tmsmail.us/pop_tms_sfballet/2012_Renewal_Brochure_online.pdf An excerpt from the e-mail sent to subscribers: 2012 Repertory Season Highlights IncludeNEW World Premieres by Edwaard Liang, Mark Morris, Ashley Page, and Yuri Possokhov NEW SF Ballet Premiere of John Cranko's dramatic narrative work, Onegin NEW A sparkling, newly designed production of Don Quixote Balanchine's Scotch Symphony, not performed by SF Ballet in over 45 years The passionate story ballet, Romeo & Juliet Link to comment
California Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Thank you! I did get the PDF file to open. It doesn't seem to be available yet on the SFB public site. Here's the complete rep - if you open the PDF link, it includes all the dates: PROGRAM 1 Onegin PROGRAM 2 Chroma Morris World Premiere Number Nine PROGRAM 3 Le Carnaval des Animaux Possokhov World Premiere Trio PROGRAM 4 Romeo & Juliet PROGRAM 5 The Fifth Season Liang World Premiere Glass Pieces PROGRAM 6 RaymondaAct III RAkU Page World Premiere PROGRAM 7 Divertimento #15 Scotch Symphony The Four Temperaments PROGRAM 8 Don Quixote Link to comment
California Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Single tickets went on sale on-line this morning (11/16) for the spring 2012 season, but they have turned off their seat selection feature! You can select a section, but nothing more. You're not even told which seat they want to give you when you go to the next step (unlike the clunky NYCB system). Do locals know if they leave seat selection off for the rest of the season, or just the first few hours of sales? If you try going over to "build-your-own" subscription, you can still see seat selection, so the function is working to that extent. UPDATED: I'll answer my own question! The seat selection system came back on-line about 10:30 am PST. But the entire on-line ticket system is extremely sluggish today (no surprise). As this has come up in other contexts, let me note that they charge a single $10 handling fee, regardless of how many tickets you order, for these on-line sales. They don't have the option of letting you print your own tickets (as the Met and others do), but use U.S. mail to send them out (within 7 days, they say). Link to comment
PeggyR Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 Single tickets went on sale on-line this morning (11/16) for the spring 2012 season, but they have turned off their seat selection feature! You can select a section, but nothing more. You're not even told which seat they want to give you when you go to the next step (unlike the clunky NYCB system). Do locals know if they leave seat selection off for the rest of the season, or just the first few hours of sales? If you try going over to "build-your-own" subscription, you can still see seat selection, so the function is working to that extent. UPDATED: I'll answer my own question! The seat selection system came back on-line about 10:30 am PST. But the entire on-line ticket system is extremely sluggish today (no surprise). As this has come up in other contexts, let me note that they charge a single $10 handling fee, regardless of how many tickets you order, for these on-line sales. They don't have the option of letting you print your own tickets (as the Met and others do), but use U.S. mail to send them out (within 7 days, they say). Interesting that the seat selection is back. I posted a complaint about it being gone on Facebook over the weekend. Said I'd rather go standing room than not at least know what seat I'm getting. Also, I'm sure they allowed printing tickets at home before; I've seen people having their printout scanned. Very strange. Not sure the new website is much of an 'improvement' if they're taking away features. Link to comment
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