Live Broadcasts

Sat 23 Nov 2019, 5.55pm. LIVE BROADCAST SCREENING.Philip Glass – Akhnaten—Met Premiere Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo headlines as the revolutionary Pharaoh whotransformed ancient Egypt.Director Phelim McDermott, whose productions include the hugely successful Satyagraha byPhilip Glass, returns to the Met…

Wed 4 Dec 2019, 7pm. ENCORE BROADCAST SCREENING. Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life isin danger…

Tues 10 Dec 2019, 7.15pm.  LIVE BROADCAST SCREENING. A classic returns to The Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia – a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls. The intricate choreography is set to Delibes’…

Sat 21 Dec 2019, 2pm. ENCORE BROADCAST SCREENING. The Royal Ballet’s glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite. It is Christmas Eve and Herr Drosselmeyer the…

Sat 11 Jan 2020, 5.55pm. Live Broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the most…

Sun 19 Jan 2020, 2pm. ENCORE BROADCAST SCREENING. This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal Ballet both in its new home after World…

Wed 29 Jan 2020, 7.45pm.Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical arias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poignant final scene over which…

Sat 1 Feb 2020, 5.55pm. Live Broadcast from the Met Opera in New York. The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new co-production with English National Opera and Dutch National…

Thur 20 Feb 2020, 7pm. Cyrano de Bergerac. Broadcast live from the National Theatre to our Screen.James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the West…

Tue 25 Feb 2020, 7.15pm. The Royal Ballet: THE CELLIST / DANCES AT A GATHERING Cathy Marston | Jerome Robbins  Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballet, and is…

Sat 29 Feb 2020, 5.55pm. Live Broadcast from the Met Opera in New York. In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicarreconceives a production evoking a scandalous world in which the…

Tues 17 Mar 2020, 7.15pm. Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised…

ENCORE SCREENING. Sun 22 Mar 2020, 2.30pm. Recorded Broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.New Production (Wagner). Award-winning, Sir Bryn Terfel CBE, returns to the Met for the first time since 2012, as the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation…

Wed 1 Apr 2020, 7.15pm. Liam Scarlett’s glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival. While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional choreography and John Macfarlane’s magnificent designs breathe new life…

Sat 11 Apr 2020, 5.55pm. Live Broadcast from the Met Opera in New York . Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns with star soprano Anna Netrebko as the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her…

Tue 21 Apr 2020, 7.00pm. Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt. The award-winning production by Damiano Michieletto presents vividly the…

Sat 9 May 2020, 5.55pm. Live Broadcast from the Met Opera in New York. Set in 16th Century Britain, Donizetti’s historical drama follows Mary, Queen of Scots and her bitter rivalry with the cousin responsible for imprisoning her, Queen Elizabeth…

Broadcast as an Encore screening from the National Theatre The Welkin – a new play by Lucy KirkwoodOne life in the hands of 12 women.Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced…