{"id":1115,"date":"2012-01-02T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2012-01-04T12:19:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:19:31","slug":"ballets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Ballets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing The Nutcracker at the Hippodrome and watching Black Swan I decided to watch some ballets.  Yesterday afternoon, on the hitherto untouched Sky Arts channel, I watched Swan Lake.  It was beautiful and incredibly romantic.  I&#8217;d never seen any version of it before.  This one was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyarts.co.uk\/dance\/article\/swan-lake-at-the-royal-opera-house\/\">Anthony Dowell&#8217;s production at the Royal Opera House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"583\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/video.sky.com\/embed\/external\/arts_134301\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00wyltr\">Birmingham Royal Ballet&#8217;s Cinderella on BBC&#8217;s iPlayer<\/a> which I enjoyed but it lacked the drama and romance of Swan Lake.  It had more humour than drama, which was enjoyable enough.  I didn&#8217;t like Prokoviev&#8217;s score which seemed discordant in comparison to Tchaikovsky&#8217;s Swan Lake.  Overall, Cinderella was entertaining but Swan Lake was breathtaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing The Nutcracker at the Hippodrome and watching Black Swan I decided to watch some ballets. Yesterday afternoon, on the hitherto untouched Sky Arts channel, I watched Swan Lake. It was beautiful and incredibly romantic. I&#8217;d never seen any version of it before. This one was Anthony Dowell&#8217;s production at the Royal Opera House. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}