How did Birmingham Royal Ballet do in Manchester?
[Audience comments] ‘It was spectacular, and nice costumes. The music is very popular and familiar!’ ‘The Hungarian dance – I’ve never seen the dance – I’ve heard the music loads of times but when you see it it puts it back into your mind, so every time you hear it, you’re back watching the ballet dancers doing the dance, which is very good. The pictures with the music!’ ‘The music’s the main thing. Same in opera – the music’s more important than whatever happens on stage, which sometimes is better not to see. Everybody’s idea of what it’s about is not neccessarily your idea.’ ‘It certainly does help, seeing that visual part of it, and you can hear the climaxes coming up, seeing what leaps are being done.’ ‘I find it surprising that it wasn’t very popular when it was first performed, apparently’ ‘I think that if you had a visual behind an orchestra playing, it would not neccessarily enhance it. The only difference is something like fireworks playing, or a fountain playing with the musi
