A DocHouse presentation, followed by a live Q&A with director Lorie Conway. Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law documentary features one of the bravest lawyers in Africa — Beatrice Mtetwa in Zimbabwe. In spite of harassment and beatings by police, she has courageously defended those jailed by the Mugabe government—peace activists, journalists, opposition candidates, [...]
Kids Club, Sat 1 Jun, £5 The marvellous London International Animation Festival are back with a fab selection of short animated films from around to world to delight, entertain, amuse and surprise you! A 79 minute programme of some of the most exceptional and entertaining animation aimed at young children.
Happy half-term! A treat for children and carers alike, all at £5. My Neighbor Totoro is a heart warming, sentimental masterpiece that captures the simple grace of childhood. We have two versions showing: dubbed for our half-term matinees on May 24, 29 and 31: and sub-titled on Sun 26 May when it is showing with [...]
Rivalling the spectacle of Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby, this screening of the film will be introduced by the lively, the lovely, the Dixie Dinahs in performance. Look out, the joint is gonna jump! From fiery flappers and foxy follies to cute chorus lines and sultry swing dancers, the Dixie Dinah’s are an all-female dance troupe [...]
Sat October 5 at 17:55 NEW PRODUCTION Composor: Tchaikovsky Conductor: Valery Gergiev Production: Deborah Warner Set Designer: Tom Pye Video Designers: Finn Ross & Ian William Galloway Choreographer: Kim Brandstrup Cast: Mariusz Kwiecien (Eugene Onegin), Anna Netrebko (Tatiana), Oksana Volkova (Olga), Piotr Beczala (Lenski), Alexei Tanovitsky (Gremin) The Live in HD season begins October [...]
Sat October 26 at 17:55 Composor: Shostakovich Conductor: Pavel Smelkov Production: William Kentridge Set Designer: William Kentridge & Sabine Theunissen Cast: Paulo Szot (Kovalyov), Andrey Popov (Police Inspector), Alexander Lewis (The Nose) William Kentridge’s dazzlingly innovative production of Shostakovich’s shocking, unconventional opera about a beleaguered Russian official and his runaway nose returns to the Met for [...]
Sat November 9 at 17:55 Composor: Puccini Conductor: Riccardo Frizza Production: Luc Bondy Set Designer: Richard Peduzzi Cast: Patricia Racette (Tosca), Roberto Alagna (Cavaradossi), George Gagnidze (Scarpia), John Del Carlo (Sacristan) Patricia Racette portrays the tempestuous diva Floria Tosca in Luc Bondy’s production of Puccini’s enduring favorite. Roberto Alagna sings Tosca’s lover, the painter Cavaradossi, and George Gagnidze is [...]
Sat December 14 at 17:55 NEW PRODUCTION Composor: Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: James Levine Production: Robert Carsen Set Designer: Paul Steinberg Cast: Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Lisette Oropesa (Nannetta), Angela Meade (Alice Ford), Stephanie Blythe (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg Page), Paolo Fanale (Fenton), Franco Vassallo (Ford) Verdi’s brilliant final masterpiece Falstaff has its first new [...]
Sat February 8 at 17:55 Composor: Dvořák Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Production: Otto Schenk Set Designer: Günther Schneider-Siemssen Choreographer: Carmen de Lavallade Cast: Renée Fleming (Rusalka), Emily Magee (Foreign Princess), Dolora Zajick (Ježibaba), Piotr Beczala (Prince), John Relyea (Water Sprite) Renée Fleming sings her first Live in HD performance of one of her signature roles, the lovelorn [...]
Sat March 1 at 17:00 NEW PRODUCTION Composer: Alexander Borodin Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda Production: Dmitri Tcherniakov Set Designer: Dmitri Tcherniakov Cast: Ildar Abdrazakov (Prince Igor Svyatoslavich), Oksana Dyka (Yaroslavna), Anita Rachvelishvili (Konchakovna), Sergey Semishkur (Vladimir Igorevich), Mikhail Petrenko (Prince Galitsky), Štefan Kocán (Khan Konchak) Alexander Borodin’s epic Prince Igor has its first Met performances since [...]
