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Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas

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Met Opera Live: Cosi Fan Tutte

Saturday 3 October 6:00 pm

The Met: Live in HD season continues with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love.

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Met Opera Live: Macbeth

Tuesday 20 October 6:00 pm

Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists return to The Met: Live in HD for Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: Manon

Tuesday 27 October 7:15 pm

In the seedy underbelly of 18th-century Paris, money is king. Nothing is sacred – even love itself can be bought for the right price.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Encore: Manon

Sunday 1 November 2:00 pm

In the seedy underbelly of 18th-century Paris, money is king. Nothing is sacred – even love itself can be bought for the right price.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: Carmen

Tuesday 10 November 7:15 pm

An all-star cast brings this white-hot drama to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas as the jealous and despairing Don José.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Encore: Carmen

Sunday 15 November 2:00 pm

An all-star cast brings this white-hot drama to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas as the jealous and despairing Don José.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: The Nutcracker

Tuesday 1 December 7:15 pm

Peter Wright’s production of this festive family favourite sparkles to the wondrous swell of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral score, alongside the glow and grandeur of Julia Trevelyan Oman’s period designs.

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Met Opera Live: SAMSON ET DALILA

Saturday 5 December 5:00 pm

Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Encore: The Nutcracker

Sunday 13 December 2:00 pm

Peter Wright’s production of this festive family favourite sparkles to the wondrous swell of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral score, alongside the glow and grandeur of Julia Trevelyan Oman’s period designs.

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Met Opera Live: La Fanciulla del West

Tuesday 26 January 6:00 pm

Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: Götterdämmerung

Wednesday 3 February 4:45 pm

For the long-awaited finale of Wagner’s epic saga, director Barrie Kosky situates the rich apocalyptic drama in a contemporary world of dream-like turmoil.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Encore: Götterdämmerung

Sunday 7 February 2:00 pm

For the long-awaited finale of Wagner’s epic saga, director Barrie Kosky situates the rich apocalyptic drama in a contemporary world of dream-like turmoil.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: Così fan tutte

Tuesday 23 February 6:45 pm

Così fan tutte has lost none of its sting since it first scandalised audiences in 1790.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Encore: Così fan tutte

Sunday 28 February 2:00 pm

Così fan tutte has lost none of its sting since it first scandalised audiences in 1790.

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Met Opera Live: Silent Night

Saturday 20 March 5:00 pm

Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Tuesday 23 March 7:15 pm

Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Encore: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Sunday 28 March 2:00 pm

Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography.

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Met Opera Live: Manon

Saturday 3 April 5:00 pm

Leading tenor Matthew Polenzani is her idealistic lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, with rising-star baritone Andrzej Filończyk as her stalwart cousin, Lescaut, in a breathtaking staging by director Laurent Pelly.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: Swan Lake

Thursday 22 April 7:15 pm

Liam Scarlett’s production for The Royal Ballet brings together Tchaikovsky’s towering score and John Macfarlane’s picturesque designs to create an enduring ballet spectacle of love, treachery and forgiveness.

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Met Opera Live: Otello

Saturday 24 April 6:00 pm

One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde, takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera, live to cinemas worldwide.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Encore: Swan Lake

Sunday 25 April 2:00 pm

Liam Scarlett’s production for The Royal Ballet brings together Tchaikovsky’s towering score and John Macfarlane’s picturesque designs to create an enduring ballet spectacle of love, treachery and forgiveness.

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Royal Ballet and Opera Live: Tosca

Wednesday 5 May 7:00 pm