Celebrate the end of 2018 with the Berliner Philharmoniker’s glittering New Year’s Eve Concert. This fantastic event will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim, and Broadcast LIVE from Berlin in high defin...

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• Mon 31 Dec
• 120 minutes

For £120 (£100 for Friends of the Forum) your name can be attached to a seat of your choice for 5 years. For £60 (£50 for Friends of the Forum) your name will be attached to a randomly allocated se...

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• Mon 31 Dec
• 5 minutes

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of Meru, comes Free Solo a stunning, intimate and unflinching port...

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• Tue 8 Jan to Wed 9 Jan
• 100 minutes

Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to cinemas. This visceral new production about the limits of power will be...

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• Tue 15 Jan
• 150 minutes

The temple dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor fall deeply in love, giving way to heated passions, and murderous intrigues when the Rajah and his daughter Gamzatti discover their forbidden love. La B...

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• Sun 20 Jan
• 200 minutes

TCHAIKOVSKY’S MOST AMBITIOUS OPERA CONTAINS SOME OF HIS GREATEST MUSIC AND IS A POWERFUL STUDY OF DESTRUCTIVE OBSESSION. In Tchaikovsky’s intense opera of obsession and the supernatural, Gherman is...

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• Tue 22 Jan
• 210 minutes

RICHARD EYRE’S BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION PROVIDES THE PERFECT SETTING FOR VERDI’S OPERA ABOUT A COURTESAN WHO SACRIFICES ALL FOR LOVE. From the thrill of unexpected romance to a heartbreaking reconcilia...

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• Wed 30 Jan
• 215 minutes

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a lo...

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• Thu 31 Jan
• 180 minutes

LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP TRIUMPH IN CARLOS ACOSTA’S VIBRANT PRODUCTION OF THIS DAZZLING BALLET. Cervantes’s story of the bumbling knight Don Quixote has inspired countless artistic interpretations. Mari...

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• Tue 19 Feb
• 165 minutes

The Princess Aurora falls under the curse of the Evil Fairy Carabosse on her sixtenth birthday, falling into a deep slumber of one hundred years. Only the kiss of a prince could break the spell. A r...

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• Sun 10 Mar
• 170 minutes

CHRISTOF LOY DIRECTS A STARSTUDDED CAST OF SINGERS, INCLUDING ANNA NETREBKO, JONAS KAUFMANN AND LUDOVIC TÉZIER, IN VERDI’S EPIC OPERA, CONDUCTED BY ANTONIO PAPPANO. Leonora falls in love with Don A...

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• Tue 2 Apr
• 255 minutes

Come into the forest; dare to change your state of mind. Rosalind is banished, wrestling with her heart and her head. With her cousin by her side, she journeys to a world of exile where barriers ar...

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• Wed 17 Apr
• 200 minutes

EXPERIENCE THE DECADENCE AND ELEGANCE OF 1870S PARIS IN DAVID MCVICAR’S SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION OF GOUNOD’S BEST-LOVED OPERA. There are many versions of the story of Faust, who trades his soul with ...

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• Tue 30 Apr
• 225 minutes

TWO RECENT WORKS AND ONE WORLD PREMIERE SHOWCASE THE CONTEMPORARY FACE OF THE ROYAL BALLET. The contemporary face of The Royal Ballet is shown in works from three of today’s leading choreographers....

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• Thu 16 May
• 195 minutes

Carmen is as passionate and free-spirited as ever as she finds herself caught in a love triangle. The passionate one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso originally conceived for legendary...

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• Sun 19 May
• 140 minutes

In a reimagined 1590, England is a matriarchy. Baptista Minola is seeking to sell off her son Katherine to the highest bidder. Cue an explosive battle of the sexes in this electrically charged love st...

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• Wed 5 Jun
• 200 minutes

SHAKESPEARE’S STAR-CROSSED LOVERS ENCOUNTER PASSION AND TRAGEDY IN KENNETH MACMILLAN’S 20TH-CENTURY BALLET MASTERPIECE. Shakespeare’s enduring love story is known the world over. Since its 1965 pre...

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• Tue 11 Jun
• 195 minutes

"To whom should I complain?" When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help. W...

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• Wed 31 Jul
• 200 minutes