Event Cinema offers the very best in ballet, opera, musical theatre, Q&A’s and other cultural events from around the world. Broadcast or captured live from the stages of the world’s most famous venues.
Our programme includes seasons from the Royal Opera House, National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company as well as many other prestigious companies and events.
Thu 8 Sep |
3h 10m
With a score that includes Butterfly’s aria, One fine day and Humming Chorus, Giacoma Puccini’s opera is entrancing and ultimately heart-breaking.
Tue 27 Sep |
3h 25m
Dangerous desires, family secrets and political intrigues twist through every moment of daring choreography in Kenneth MacMillan's ballet inspired by true events.
Wed 5 Oct |
3h 0m
A rollicking new comedy by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night), based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals.
Thu 6 Oct |
3h 25m
Robert Carsen situates Verdi’s large-scale political drama within a contemporary world, framing its power struggles and toxic jealousies in the apparatus of a modern, totalitarian state.
Wed 12 Oct |
3h 0m
Richard Jones’s recent production perfectly captures the vulnerability of youth amid the harshness and glamour of a big city.
Thu 20 Oct |
3h 0m
Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut in this 21st-century retelling of Anton Chekhov's tale of love and loneliness.
Thu 3 Nov |
2h 0m
An evening that comprises of three world premieres.
Wed 16 Nov |
Thu 8 Dec |
3h 10m
Never Before Seen In Cinema and, based on Laura Esquivel’s captivating novel of the same name.
Thu 19 Jan 2023 |
3h 0m
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power.
Thu 26 Jan 2023 |
3h 45m
Expect heart-melting serenades, ridiculous disguises and a fairy-tale ending waiting just out of reach.
Wed 15 Feb 2023 |
Thu 23 Feb 2023 |
3h 20m
Puccini’s score is rich in musical marvels (featuring ‘Nessun dorma’), while Andrei Serban’s production draws on Chinese theatrical tradition to evoke a colourful fantasy tableau of ancient Peking.
Wed 22 Mar 2023 |
3h 0m
A creative team steeped in the magic of theatre, film, dance and opera brings new atmosphere to Cinderella’s ethereal world of fairy godmothers and pumpkin carriages, handsome princes and finding true love.
Wed 12 Apr 2023 |
4h 0m
David McVicar’s glorious production of Mozart’s ever-popular comic opera conducted by Antonio Pappano.
Thu 27 Apr 2023 |
3h 25m
Be swept away by Tchaikovsky’s ravishing music and Oliver Messel’s sumptuous designs with this true gem from the classical repertory.
Wed 24 May 2023 |
6h 45m
Adeele Thomas’s energetic staging sets Verdi’s tale in a Hieronymus Bosch inspired universe of medieval superstition.
Tue 13 Jun 2023 |
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