a little self indulgence

So, yesterday afternoon after I got home from school... I found myself on the Royal Opera House website, looking at shows. Within twenty minutes I had purchased tickets to two different performances! One of the shows was last night it was four different pieces, small works one of them might even be considered a mini ballet. The pieces were Electric Counterpoint which was only it's 2nd performance by the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House (It's in its world premier!) the second pieces was Afternoon of a Faun, then Tzigane a Balanchine Ballet being performed by the Royal Ballet for the 2nd time and the last piece was A Month in the Country, adapted from Turgenev's play.
This performance, only opened last Thursday and has 4 scheduled shows (I think) So I am really excited that I got to see it. Here is the description given on the ROH website..

The world premiere of a new work by Christopher Wheeldon for The Royal Ballet makes for an exciting opening to this mixed programme and comes after the great success of his DGV: Danse à grande vitesse last Season. First of the contrasting works that follow is Jerome Robbins’s contemplative Afternoon of a Faun, with two dancers in introspective rehearsal and set to one of Debussy’s most famous orchestral pieces. The temperature is raised next for the extrovert evocation of gypsy passion of Balanchine’s Tzigane. Finally, Ashton’s much-loved A Month in the Country, set to music by Chopin and with beautiful period designs, follows the emotional drama of Turgenev’s famous play in which a young tutor’s presence disturbs the calm of a Russian household. Barry Wordsworth, the new Music Director of The Royal Ballet, conducts this programme of variety and intensity.


And the theater itself, and the orchestra were amazing.. the other ticket I got is for next Thursday (as in not tomorrow) and I am going to see Sleeping Beauty!!

I am in heaven.

This is a picture of the theater I stole from the web :)


P.S. Munich pictures coming soon(ish) :)