Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

PUCCINI

Tosca

Wednesday, December 4   1 & 6:30pm

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas onNovember 23. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia… MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

Thursday, December 5   1pm

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood. This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD Holiday Encore

MOZART

The magic flute

Saturday, December 14 11am

The Met’s first-ever Live in HD transmission—the abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute—returns to cinemas this holiday season. Tony Award–winner Julie Taymor conjures a spellbinding staging, replete with a kaleidoscope of color… MORE INFO

National Theatre Live

PRIMA FACIE

Thursday, January 9 7pm

Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge…MORE INFO

National Theatre Live

FLEABAG

Thursday, January 23 7pm

Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Following a box-office record-breaking run in cinemas in 2019, the one-woman show returns to cinemas to the big screen this winter…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

VERDI

aIDA

Saturday, January 25   9:30am
Wednesday, January 29   1 & 6:30pm

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle… MORE INFO

London Theatre Live

MACBETH

Wednesday, February 5 7pm
Sunday, February 9 3pm

Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of Pi, Henry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal. With staging ‘full of wolfish imagination and alarming surprise’ (★★★★★ The Guardian), the immersive 5.1 cinema surround sound places the audience inside the minds of the Macbeths, asking are we ever really responsible for our actions?…MORE INFO

Great Art On Screen

Perugino: Eternal Renaissance

Tuesday, February 11  1 & 7pm

Journey through Italy to discover Perugino’s great masterpieces, from the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel to the two rooms entirely dedicated to him in the National Gallery of Umbria. Spectators will be led on a guided discovery of the artist’s harmonious work: a perfect balance between man and nature…MORE INFO

National Theatre Live

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Thursday, February 20 1 & 7pm

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate…MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

DAWN OF IMPRESSIONISM: PARIS 1874

Tuesday, March 25   1 & 7pm
Thursday, April 17   1pm

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything; the first Impressionists, “hungry for independence”, broke the mold by holding their own exhibition outside official channels. Impressionism was born and the art world was changed forever…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

BEETHOVEN

FIDELIO

Saturday, March 15   10:00am
Wednesday, March 19   1 & 6:30pm

Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio… MORE INFO

Great Art On Screen

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery

Tuesday, April 8   1 & 7pm

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery is a journey into the Italian Renaissance through the most beautiful, representative works of art of the period. It is a totally immersive and unique experience and allows the audience to see, listen, feel and savor the most outstanding and celebrated breeding ground of creativity in the history of art…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

MOZART

Le Nozze Di Figaro

Saturday, April 26   10:00am
Wednesday, April 30   1 & 6:30pm

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro… MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

STRAUSS

SALOME

Saturday, May 17   10:00am
Wednesday, May 21   1 & 6:30pm

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine… MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

Michelangelo: Love and Death

Tuesday, May 20   1 & 7pm
Thursday, June 26   1pm

Spanning his 88 years, Michelangelo: Love and Death takes a cinematic journey through the print and drawing rooms of Europe through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican to seek out a deeper understanding of this legendary figure’s tempestuous life, his relationship with his contemporaries and his incredible legacy…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

ROSSINI

Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Saturday, May 31   10:00am
Wednesday, June 4   1 & 6:30pm

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast… MORE INFO