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.
3h 0m
Step into a night of music, romance, and celebration with André Rieu's Waltz the Night Away! An all-new summer concert captured live from the stunning Vrijthof Square.
2h 0m
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is at the top of her career, but when an event threatens to throw her life off balance, can she hold her family upright?
Thu 4 Sep |
3h 30m
In war-torn Rome, Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy
Wed 1 Oct |
3h 15m
Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina.
Tue 21 Oct |
2h 0m
Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw's incendiary moral classic
Thu 23 Oct |
3h 15m
Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella's life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out...
Tue 25 Nov |
1h 40m
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
Thu 27 Nov |
3h 30m
The magician Herr Drosselmeyer needs to save his nephew. Hans-Peter has been transformed into a Nutcracker.
Wed 10 Dec |
3h 0m
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy
Thu 22 Jan 2026 |
3h 30m
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair.
Tue 3 Mar 2026 |
5h 30m
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey.
Tue 31 Mar 2026 |
3h 30m
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter's rescue.
Tue 21 Apr 2026 |
4h 5m
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine.
Tue 5 May 2026 |