From director Sir. Sam Mendes comes the 2020 Golden Globe best motion picture winner. At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield ( Captain Fantastic’s George MacKa...

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• Sun 19 Jan to Thu 23 Jan
• 119 minutes

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Vic...

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• Fri 24 Jan to Thu 30 Jan
• 119 minutes

The complex relationship of Maleficent and Aurora continues to be explored as they face new threats to the magical land of the Moors. **As with all of our Kids Club screenings there will be a free ...

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• Sat 25 Jan
• 119 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
• 144 minutes

Oscar Winning Helen Mirren tells the story of Anne Frank’s life through the pages of her world famous diary, a story that has made the tragedy of the Holocaust known to readers all over the world. ...

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• Mon 27 Jan to Thu 30 Jan
• 95 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
• 165 minutes

Mystery, romance and adventure all play a part in this feature length animated musical based on the life of the lost princess Anastasia. Remembering nothing about her royal heritage - her only clue a ...

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• Sat 1 Feb
• 94 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
• 225 minutes

Separated from his parents, a Jewish nameless boy wanders through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, unfalteringly looking for a glimmer of hope in a world of extreme brutality. Based on the 1965 novel by Je...

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• Sun 2 Feb
• 170 minutes

Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this brilliant black comedy from Bong Joon-ho ( Okja, Snowpiercer ) follows the Kim family as they struggle to survive on the breadline. W...

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• Mon 3 Feb
• 180 minutes

This 1963 classic is a Disney adaptation of King Arthur's humble beginnings. With the help of a wizard called Merlin, a poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery ...

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• Sat 8 Feb
• 76 minutes

With Valentine's Day approaching and the Playhouse Theatre production starring James McAvoy well under way, we thought we'd bring you Cyrano de Bergerac's first instance on film. The earliest film ...

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• Sun 9 Feb
• 120 minutes

Shaun is back! And there's a new arrival in town who's a little alien... meet Lu-La. Strange lights over the quiet town of Mossingham herald the arrival of a mystery visitor from far across the galaxy...

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• Sat 15 Feb
• 87 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

This live-action reimagining of one of Nickelodeon’s most popular pre-school cartoons fast-forwards to the teenage years of the iconic young explorer. Now Dora (Isabela Moner) faces her most dangerous...

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• Sat 22 Feb
• 102 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

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality” We might think we already know Frida Kahlo – the image of floral crowns, big brows and folk style clothing have made her a muse to generati...

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• Mon 6 Jul
• 90 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