Intrigue, pageantry, romance, skulduggery, zingers from Maggie Smith – the big screen bow of Downton Abbey takes all the things you love about the TV show and rolls them out on a much grander scale. ...

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• Sun 15 Sep to Thu 19 Sep
• 122 minutes

We're delighted to be participating in Open House London again this year. There will be 4 guided tours of our historic building and projection room. When you book a tour, receive a £2 discount for tic...

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• Sun 22 Sep
• 30 minutes

Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden , the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre ...

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• Thu 26 Sep to Sun 29 Sep
• 200 minutes

See the award-winning one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, broadcast live to cinemas from London’s West End. Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (TV's Fleabag, Ki...

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• Sat 28 Sep to Mon 28 Oct
• 90 minutes

Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland ( Renée Zellweger ) arrives in Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in T...

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• Sat 5 Oct
• 118 minutes

Sexual intrigue, jealousy, wit, anger... and retribution! The new Royal Opera Season begins with Mozart’s engaging masterpiece, which follows Don Giovanni, the women he serially seduces, and the venge...

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• Tue 8 Oct
• 240 minutes

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of Turandot, which stars Christine Goerke in the title role of the icy Chinese princess who has renounced a...

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• Sat 12 Oct to Mon 14 Oct
• 240 minutes

This fascinating cinema event opens with a brand-new documentary about the life and work of Paul Gauguin, one of the world’s most popular and important artists. Filmed in Tahiti, France, the Marquesas...

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• Tue 15 Oct to Mon 21 Oct
• 90 minutes

'The course of true love never did run smooth.’ A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute ...

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• Thu 17 Oct
• 180 minutes

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic love story. Confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide, our two young lovers...

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• Tue 22 Oct
• 180 minutes

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. The witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife ...

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• Thu 24 Oct
• 180 minutes

Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier...

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• Sat 26 Oct
• 240 minutes

Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, a clandestine group of journalists, scholars, and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto vowed to defeat Nazi lies and pro...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 95 minutes

Raymondais betrothed to Jean de Brienne, a gallant knight who pledged to go on a crusade led by the King of Hungary. When her beloved leaves, Abderakhman, a foreign knight, makes a bid for the hand o...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 240 minutes

Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world’s favourite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased his extraordinary genius, but often not examined closely enough is the most crucial eleme...

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• Tue 29 Oct
• 104 minutes

From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Marius Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage, this mixed programme highlights the versatility of ...

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• Tue 5 Nov
• 180 minutes

Hui He stars as the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer, sung by Andrea Carè. Plácido Domingo adds another role to his remarkable repertoire, singing Sharpless for the ...

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• Sat 9 Nov to Mon 11 Nov
• 240 minutes

On the bazaar square of Andrinopolis, the Pachais struck by the beauty of Medora and tries to buy her, but the lovely young woman is not for sale. As the transaction is about to come to a close, Medor...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 240 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
• 240 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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