Live Broadcasts

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…

Tue 24 Mar 2020, 7pm. Jonas Kaufmann: My Vienna is a deeply personal tribute by the star tenor to the world-famous melodies from the birthplace of waltz and operetta. Filmed live in the magical setting of the Wiener Konzerthaus, the…

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…

Fri 24 Apr, 7.30pm. Selected from over a hundred entries from film-makers around the globe, Wilderland is back for its second year touring the very best of the world’s short wildlife films. These groundbreaking films will offer audiences unparalleled insight…

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…