La Donna del Lago - The Royal Opera House
Next Showing: 27th May 13 @ 18:45
Final Showing: 27th May 13 @ 18:45
A BROADCAST EVENT IN HD SCREENED VIA SATELLITE FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE IN LONDON
by Gioachino Rossini
Opera in two acts Sung in Italian (with subtitles)
This rarely performed masterpiece, based on Sir Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake, is the most fully Romantic of Rossini’s Italian operas.
In Renaissance Scotland, King James V travels to the tribal Highlands, where he falls in love with Elena – the Lady of the Lake. But her father, fighting with the clans against the King, has promised her hand in marriage to the clan leader Rodrigo – and Elena herself is in love with the young romantic hero Malcolm……… Some truly galvanizing scenes ensue, most memorably the stunning confrontation between the tenors Uberto (James V in disguise) and Rodrigo.
John Fulljames has assembled the ultimate bel canto cast, including Joyce DiDonato (Elena), Colin Lee (Rodrigo) and Juan Diego Flórez (Uberto/James V). His staging evokes the exotic mystery of Rossini’s Romantic landscape, and opens up this rich but under-explored seam of operatic gold. La donna del Lago promises to be a musical revelation. Conductor: Michelle Mariotti.
Est. running time: 3 hrs. 20 mins. (inc. one interval)
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The Audience - National Theatre
Next Showing: 13th Jun 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 16th Jun 13 @ 15:00
The first screening is a live broadcast event in HD screened via satellite from the National Theatre in London. The encore screening is a delayed live recording of the Thursday performance.
The Audience
A new play by Peter Morgan
Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast live from London’s Gielgud Theatre as part of National Theatre Live.
For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace – a meeting like no other in British public life – it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this contract of silence – and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional – sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.
From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.
The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen.
The Audience is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries. read more
British Museum - Life and Death in Pompeii
Next Showing: 18th Jun 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 18th Jun 13 @ 19:00
The British Museum’s first ever live broadcast from their new exhibition Life & Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
This is the first exhibition ever to be held on the subject of Pompeii at the museum and the first in London for over 20 years. It will focus on the homes and lives of the inhabitants of the thriving industrial hub of Pompeii and the small seaside town of Herculaneum nearly 2,000 years ago.
Viewers will be taken along a Roman street and into a house with atrium entrance, bedroom, kitchen, dining room, sitting room and garden. Exhibition curator Paul Roberts, alongside Mary Beard and Giorgio Locatelli amongst others will accompany the viewers as they are taken up close to the famous casts of those caught in the explosive heat of the volcano.
They will gain insight into the daily lives of the Romans through a unique selection of objects: Jewellery, clothes, sculptures, mosaics, a jar for growing dormice (a rare Roman delicacy) and even an intact loaf of bread with the baker’s stamp still visible. read more
Gloriana - The Royal Opera House
Next Showing: 24th Jun 13 @ 18:45
Final Showing: 24th Jun 13 @ 18:45
A BROADCAST EVENT IN HD SCREENED VIA SATELLITE FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE IN LONDON
Richard Jones directs a production of Britten's opera for our time, exploring tensions between affairs of state and affairs of the heart. read more
Othello - The National Theatre
Next Showing: 26th Sep 13 @ 19:00
Final Showing: 26th Sep 13 @ 19:00
A LIVE BROADCAST EVENT IN HD SCREENED VIA SATELLITE FROM THE NATIONAL THEATRE IN LONDON
The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy.
Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet.
Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.
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