Legendary actors Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen star together on screen for the first time in this smart and suspenseful thriller directed by Bill Condon (MR HOLMES, GODS AND MONSTERS). Career con arti...

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• Wed 20 Nov to Thu 21 Nov
• 109 minutes

Czechoslovakia, 1930s. Liesel and her Jewish industrialist husband Viktor build a modernist family home, an architectural masterpiece representing a bright future. That future, however, doesn't materi...

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• Wed 20 Nov
• 103 minutes

This courtroom drama exposes the political motives behind one of the most scandalous cases of miscarriage of justice in the 20th century. Known as "the Butcher of Vilnius", Franz Murer facilitated the...

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• Thu 21 Nov
• 137 minutes

Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in the remarkable true story of visionary American car designer Carroll Shelby (Damon) and fearless British driver Ken Miles (Bale), who together battled corporate m...

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• Fri 22 Nov to Thu 28 Nov
• 152 minutes

Victor ( Daniel Auteuil ) is a disillusioned 60-something who feels alienated by the modern technologies that his psychoanalyst wife ( Fanny Ardant ) can’t live without. When she throws him out, he...

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• Fri 22 Nov to Thu 28 Nov
• 115 minutes

When the first snow falls in the valley, it is urgent to prepare its reserves for the winter. Alas, during the operation, a small ladybug is trapped in a box - to the Caribbean. One solution: reform t...

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• Sat 23 Nov
• 92 minutes

Phelim McDermott returns to the Met with a new staging of Glass’s Akhnaten, originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National Opera, where it premiered, winning the 2017 Olivier Awar...

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• Sat 23 Nov to Sun 24 Nov
• 226 minutes

Through her video works, American artist Shana Moulton has developed a distinctive psychic and aesthetic realm anchored around her alter ego, Cynthia. By presenting herself and others as slightly wack...

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• Sun 24 Nov
• 120 minutes

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 colou...

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• Thu 28 Nov
• 180 minutes

This Holiday Season, laugh and sing-a-long with your favourite CBEEBIES Stars and be part of a fabulous interactive show for all the family. This year’s highly anticipated CBeebies Christmas Show is o...

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• Sat 30 Nov to Sun 1 Dec
• 70 minutes

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• Sun 1 Dec to Tue 31 Dec
• 60 minutes

Seen by over 120 million people worldwide, LES MISÉRABLES is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals. Broadcast live from the Gielgud Theatre, this is the record-breaking staged conce...

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• Mon 2 Dec
• 170 minutes

Former carnival performer Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye) and maid Jean (Glynis Johns) are assigned to protect the infant royal heir from tyrannical King Roderick I (Cecil Parker). While Jean takes the ba...

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• Tue 3 Dec
• 127 minutes

In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weird is celebrated, strange is special and beauty is embraced as more than simply meets the eye. Here, the free-spirited Moxy and her UglyDolls friends li...

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• Sat 7 Dec
• 87 minutes

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 colou...

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• Mon 9 Dec to Thu 12 Dec
• 180 minutes

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’ deli...

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• Tue 10 Dec
• 180 minutes

One Christmas Eve, the miserly Scrooge (Caine) reluctantly gives Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog) an unpaid day off for Christmas. That night, Scrooge is visited by three spirits. The first takes him ba...

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• Sat 14 Dec
• 86 minutes

The perennial Christmas favourite, It's a Wonderful Life is still a staple of the festive season. This ultimate feel-good favourite, from Oscar -winning director Frank Capra , stars James Stewart as d...

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• Tue 17 Dec to Sun 22 Dec
• 162 minutes

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 t...

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• Tue 17 Dec
• 150 minutes

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.

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• Thu 19 Dec to Thu 2 Jan
• 155 minutes

“Far away, as north as we can go, once stood an enchanted forest.” So begins the new fairy-tale animated musical from the creative team of Disney’s 2013 Oscar-winning FROZEN. The original cast are reu...

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• Fri 20 Dec to Sun 29 Dec
• 100 minutes

Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to the infamous Grinch in this animated adaptation of Dr Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch is a cynical grump who plots to ruin Christmas after his neighb...

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• Sat 21 Dec
• 90 minutes

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 mos...

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• Sat 11 Jan to Sun 12 Jan
• 240 minutes

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 War II a...

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• Thu 16 Jan
• 180 minutes

The young peasant girl Giselle dies when she learns that the man she loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins the Wilis, vengeful spirits of jilted brides who condemn Albrech...

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• Sun 26 Jan
• 240 minutes

Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyricalarias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poig...

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• Wed 29 Jan
• 180 minutes

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 Opera, hailed as a triumph at its premiere in Lond...

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• Sat 1 Feb to Sun 2 Feb
• 240 minutes

Starring James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) in the title role, this inventive new adaptation by Martin Crimp tells the story our hero, Cyrano, who is fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, he almost ...

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• Thu 20 Feb
• 180 minutes

Prince Siegfried is summoned by his parents to choose a bride. However, he encounters a mysterious swan-woman by the lake, Odette, and is captivated by her. His vow of eternal love to her will have ir...

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• Sun 23 Feb
• 240 minutes

Choreographer Cathy Marston is previously an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Roya...

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• Tue 25 Feb
• 180 minutes

In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell...

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• Sat 29 Feb to Sun 1 Mar
• 240 minutes

For the first time at the Met, Sir Bryn Terfel sings the role of the mysterious Dutchman, condemned to roam the seas for eternity, with Anja Kampe as the devoted Senta, whose love can set him free.

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• Sat 14 Mar to Sun 15 Mar
• 240 minutes

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 D...

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• Tue 17 Mar
• 180 minutes

In spite of each of their families being merciless enemies, Romeo and Juliet are deeply in love. The rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues will cost Mercutio’s life, causing Romeo a desire of...

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• Sun 29 Mar
• 240 minutes

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...

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• Wed 1 Apr
• 180 minutes

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 lover, the idealistic painter Mario Ca...

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• Sat 11 Apr to Sun 12 Apr
• 240 minutes

This opulent triptych was inspired by Balanchine’s visit to the famous jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels on New York’s Fifth Avenue, celebrating the cities and dance schools of Paris, New York and St. Peters...

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• Sun 19 Apr
• 240 minutes

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 Dam...

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• Tue 21 Apr
• 180 minutes

A mad world of mad kings, teetering on the brink of disaster. Richard the Lionheart is dead. His brother John is King of England. Threatened from all sides by Europe, the English noblemen and even ...

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• Wed 29 Apr
• 210 minutes

Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Eliza...

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• Sat 9 May to Sun 10 May
• 240 minutes

A brand new play The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood from the National Theatre in London. The ensemble cast of 12 includes Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Shameless) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Three Girls, M...

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• Thu 21 May
• 180 minutes

Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling sp...

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• Thu 28 May
• 180 minutes

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• Wed 10 Jun
• 210 minutes

Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge an...

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• Thu 18 Jun
• 120 minutes

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• Wed 15 Jul
• 210 minutes

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• Wed 23 Sep
• 210 minutes

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• Opening Wed 10 Jun
• 180 minutes

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• Opening Wed 15 Jul
• 180 minutes

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• Opening Wed 23 Sep
• 180 minutes