Directed by David Bickerstaff | Release date: 14 January 2020 | Running time: Approx. 80’ For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine...

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• Mon 20 Jan to Mon 27 Jan
• 85 minutes

Aida as our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents saw it, set against the hyperrealist scenery designed in 1945 by the Catalan artist from Manresa, Josep Mestres Cabanes. This splendid creation...

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• Wed 22 Jan
• 240 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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• Tue 28 Jan
• 95 minutes

Sung in Italian with English subtitles Approximate running time: about 2 hours 30 minutes Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical aria...

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• Wed 29 Jan to Sun 2 Feb
• 150 minutes

Kinky Boots The Musical , filmed live at the Adelphi Theatre in the heart of London’s West End, is strutting onto the big screen! With songs from Grammy and Tony award winning pop icon Cindy Lauper, b...

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• Tue 4 Feb to Sun 9 Feb
• 133 minutes

National Theatre Live Thursday 20 February 2020 Cyrano de Bergerac By Edmond Rostand, in a new version by Martin Crimp Directed by Jamie Lloyd James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the ...

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• Thu 20 Feb
• 180 minutes

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

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• Tue 25 Feb to Sun 1 Mar
• 150 minutes

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice tells the story of the painter Jacopo Robusti (1519-1594), the only great Renaissance artist to never leave Venice (even during the plague years) who earned the moniker o...

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• Wed 26 Feb
• 96 minutes

The new 25th Anniversary show catapults Riverdance into the 21st century and will completely immerse you in the extraordinary and elemental power of its music and dance. 25 years ago, 7 minutes change...

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• Tue 3 Mar to Sun 8 Mar
• 120 minutes

Frida: Viva La Vida is a stunning documentary narrated by Italian actress Asia Argento, which highlights the two sides of Frida Kahlo’s spirit: on one side the iconic independent and strong woman that...

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• Tue 10 Mar
• 95 minutes

Sung in German with English subtitles Approximate running time: about 2 hours 30 minutes Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, co...

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• Tue 17 Mar to Sun 22 Mar
• 150 minutes

Jonas Kaufmann My Vienna is a deeply personal tribute by the star tenor to the world-famous melodies from the birthplace of waltz and operetta. Filmed live in the magical setting of the Wiener Konzert...

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• Tue 24 Mar
• 90 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 to Sun 5 Apr
• 180 minutes

Directed by Phil Grabsky | Release date: 7 April 2020 | Running time: Approx. 85’ The story of Christ’s death and resurrection has dominated western culture for the past 2000 years. It is perhaps t...

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• Tue 7 Apr to Sun 12 Apr
• 85 minutes

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, ex...

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• Thu 16 Apr
• 135 minutes

Sung in Italian with English subtitles Approximate running time: about 3 hours Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as...

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• Tue 21 Apr to Sun 26 Apr
• 180 minutes

The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders, narrated by and featuring Academy Award-winner, Jeremy Irons, is a cinematic journey through the rooms, stories and emotions of one of the most visited museu...

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• Tue 28 Apr
• 92 minutes

42nd Street, the legendary Broadway musical theatre classic, is a ‘glorious’ (***** Express) and ‘utterly moreish extravaganza of glitz’ (***** Times). Telling the story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented yo...

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• Tue 28 Apr
• 135 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 h...

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• Wed 29 Apr
• 200 minutes

National Theatre Live Thursday 21 May 2020. The Welkin a new play by Lucy Kirkwood One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet,...

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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 to Sun 31 May
• 180 minutes

Hermitage: The Power of Art tells the great stories and events that have passed down the corridors of world-famous Hermitage Museum and through the streets of St. Petersburg: from its foundation by Pe...

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• Wed 3 Jun
• 88 minutes

Leontes rips his family apart with his jealousy but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late? Set across a 16-year span from Mad Men to the moon landings, th...

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• Wed 10 Jun
• 210 minutes

Berliner Philharmoniker LIVE: Season Finale Concert Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel PRODUCTION DETAILS Broadcast LIVE on Friday 12 June 2020, 6:30PM (BST) from the Berlin Philharmoni...

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• Fri 12 Jun
• 130 minutes

Sung in German with English subtitles Approximate running time: about 2 hours Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Chr...

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• Thu 18 Jun to Sun 21 Jun
• 120 minutes

Directed by Ali Ray | Release date: 6 July 2020 | Running time: Approx. 90’ This highly engaging film takes us on a journey through the life of one of the most prevalent female icons: Frida Kahlo. ...

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• Mon 6 Jul to Sun 12 Jul
• 90 minutes

A man arrives in a strange town only to find that everyone knows his name, but thinks he’s someone else. “So I to find a mother and a brother In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself” How do any ...

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• Wed 15 Jul
• 210 minutes

Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale of loss and reconciliation located in a familiar world of precarious journeys. Forced to flee his native land, Pericles becomes a refugee at the mercy of sea...

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• Wed 23 Sep
• 210 minutes