Comments on: The Sleeping Beauty, Scottish Ballet review at Edinburgh Festival Theatre http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/entertainment/the-sleeping-beauty-scottish-ballet-review-at-edinburgh-festival-theatre/01-14-2008/index.html Life in Edinburgh: Scotland's capital city. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Scottish Ballet’s premiere of Romeo and Juliet » The Edinburgh Blog http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/entertainment/the-sleeping-beauty-scottish-ballet-review-at-edinburgh-festival-theatre/01-14-2008/index.html#comment-52930 Scottish Ballet’s premiere of Romeo and Juliet » The Edinburgh Blog Sat, 17 May 2008 11:24:59 +0000 http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/entertainment/the-sleeping-beauty-scottish-ballet-review-at-edinburgh-festival-theatre/01-14-2008/index.html#comment-52930 [...] was Scottish Ballet’s second major production within six months, after their excellent Christmas premiere of Sleeping Beauty. Maybe the strains of such a schedule has taken its toll somewhat on the fundamentals of Romeo and [...] […] was Scottish Ballet’s second major production within six months, after their excellent Christmas premiere of Sleeping Beauty. Maybe the strains of such a schedule has taken its toll somewhat on the fundamentals of Romeo and […]

]]> By: John B http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/entertainment/the-sleeping-beauty-scottish-ballet-review-at-edinburgh-festival-theatre/01-14-2008/index.html#comment-42060 John B Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:09:56 +0000 http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/entertainment/the-sleeping-beauty-scottish-ballet-review-at-edinburgh-festival-theatre/01-14-2008/index.html#comment-42060 We saw Sleeping Beauty in Aberdeen yesterday and thought this blog really captured our views as well. Certainly, the number of solos and duets are prefixed by the ballet but they did go on and on and ... Was that a problem with the ballet or the performers or Paige's contribution? That being said, we had a thoroughly enjoyable evening and would recommend anyone to go. Fittingly, the loudest applause of the evening came for the Conductor of the Orchestra who, once again, performed magnificently. We saw Sleeping Beauty in Aberdeen yesterday and thought this blog really captured our views as well.
Certainly, the number of solos and duets are prefixed by the ballet but they did go on and on and … Was that a problem with the ballet or the performers or Paige’s contribution? That being said, we had a thoroughly enjoyable evening and would recommend anyone to go.
Fittingly, the loudest applause of the evening came for the Conductor of the Orchestra who, once again, performed magnificently.

]]> By: Sirio http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/entertainment/the-sleeping-beauty-scottish-ballet-review-at-edinburgh-festival-theatre/01-14-2008/index.html#comment-41966 Sirio Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:40:55 +0000 http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/entertainment/the-sleeping-beauty-scottish-ballet-review-at-edinburgh-festival-theatre/01-14-2008/index.html#comment-41966 Hi, I'm a frequent reader of your blog and wanted to thank you for that! I also wanted to comment on The Sleeping Beauty a coulple of things. Just wanted to point out that classical ballets have a fixed coreography which leaves little space to variations. Of course there can be interpretations and I think that the Scottish ballet made a great job in trying to put a pint of modernity in the ballet but the variations are just what they are. This is just to say that it doesn't really make sense to say as a critic that the wedding "went on too long: there were a few too many solo performances", because the number of solo performances is prefixed by the ballet itself. Apart from that I do agree with your critic, it was a beautiful performance and very friendly to not experts in my opinion so congratulations to the Scottish ballet! Hi,

I’m a frequent reader of your blog and wanted to thank you for that! I also wanted to comment on The Sleeping Beauty a coulple of things. Just wanted to point out that classical ballets have a fixed coreography which leaves little space to variations. Of course there can be interpretations and I think that the Scottish ballet made a great job in trying to put a pint of modernity in the ballet but the variations are just what they are. This is just to say that it doesn’t really make sense to say as a critic that the wedding “went on too long: there were a few too many solo performances”, because the number of solo performances is prefixed by the ballet itself. Apart from that I do agree with your critic, it was a beautiful performance and very friendly to not experts in my opinion so congratulations to the Scottish ballet!

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