Screen Arts

Live: January 16, 2016, 5.55 Encore: January 20, 2016, 12.00

Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years.

Soprano Diana Damrau stars as Leïla, the beautiful Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl divers competing for her

hand. Her suitors are tenor Matthew Polenzani and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, who sing the lilting duet “Au fond du

temple saint,” which opera fans know and adore. Director Penny Woolcock explores the timeless themes of pure

love, betrayal, and vengeance in a production that vividly creates an undersea world on the stage of the Met.

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda brings his romantic flair to the lush score from the composer of Carmen.

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Stratford_Upon_Avon/film/met-opera-les-pecheurs-de-perles

Live: November 21, 2015, 5.30 Encore: November 25, 2015, 12.00

Acclaimed artist and director William Kentridge (The Nose) applies his unique theatrical vision to Berg’s notorious

femme fatale who shatters lives, including her own. Musically, the masterful score is in the sure hands of Met Music

Director James Levine. Soprano Marlis Petersen has excited audiences around the world with her portrayal of the

tour-de-force title role, a wild journey of love, obsession, and death. Susan Graham joins a winning cast, including

Daniel Brenna and Johan Reuter.

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Stratford_Upon_Avon/film/met-opera-lulu

Live: October 31, 2015, 4.00 Encore: November 4, 2015, 12.00

James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade.

Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor Johan Botha takes on the daunting title role, opposite soprano Eva-Maria

Westbroek as Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the

Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of his recent triumph in Parsifal, baritone Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and

mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus.

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Stratford_Upon_Avon/film/met-opera-tannhauser

Live: October 17, 2015, 5.55 Encore: October 21, 2015, 12.00

Verdi’s masterful Otello matches Shakespeare’s play in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s

dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star

Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello’s innocent wife and victim; and baritone Željko Lučić plays the evil Iago,

who masterminds Otello’s demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Stratford_Upon_Avon/film/met-opera-otello

Live: October 3, 2015, 5.55 Encore: October 7, 2015, 12.00

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met—Leonora, the

Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yonghoon Lee sings the ill-

fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious gypsy

with the troubled past. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Stratford_Upon_Avon/film/met-opera-il-trovatore

Live: April 30, 2016, 5.55 Encore: 4 May, 2016, 1.00

The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production,

previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with

soprano Nina Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner—who portrays

Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance. Legendary mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s fearsome

mother, Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass Eric Owens are Elektra’s troubled siblings. Chéreau’s

musical collaborator, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conducts.

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Stratford_Upon_Avon/film/met-opera-elektra

Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut

Live: March 5, 2016, 5.55     Encore: March 9, 2016, 12.00

The Met stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard Eyre places the action in occupied France in a film noir setting. “Desperate passion” is the phrase Puccini himself used to describe the opera that confirmed his position as the preeminent Italian opera composer of his day. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the stirring score.

Estimated run time 215 mins

Members Priority Booking opens 2pm Tuesday 28 July

General Booking opens one week later.

Puccini’s Turandot

Live: January 30, 2016, 5.55 Encore: February 3, 2016, 12.00

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Stratford_Upon_Avon/film/met-opera-turandot