Special Events

The Met Live in HD 2018-19 Season

2019
March 2: Donizetti, La Fille du Régiment
March 30: Wagner, Die Walküre – 12PM Start
May 11: Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites – 12PM Start

The Bolshoi Ballet 2018-19 Season

March 10: The Sleeping Beauty
April 7: The Golden Age
May 19: Carmen Suite/ Petrushka – LIVE from Moscow

Exhibition on Screen: Season 6

Young Picasso
February 17
Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time – and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. This film looks at the early years of Picasso; the upbringing and the learning that led to his extraordinary achievements.

Rembrandt (Encore)
April 10 & 14
For many, Rembrandt is the greatest artist that ever lived and this deeply moving film seeks to explore the truth about the man behind the legend. This major show hosted by London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was an event like no other.

Van Gogh in Japan
June 5 & 9
One cannot understand Van Gogh without understanding how Japanese art arrived in Paris in the middle of the 19th century and the profound impact it had on artists like Monet, Degas and, above all, Van Gogh.

Exhibition on Screen: Young Picasso

Directed by Phil Grabsky

Sunday, February 17, 1:00 PM

Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time – and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. Many films have dealt with these later years – the art, the affairs and the wide circle of friends. But where did this all begin? What made Picasso in the first place? Too long ignored, it is time to look at the early years of Picasso; the upbringing and the learning that led to his extraordinary achievements. Three cities play a key role: Malaga, Barcelona, and Paris. Young Picasso visits each and explores their influence on Picasso, focusing on specific artworks from these early years. Explaining how this young artist acquired his craft, the film looks carefully at two key early periods – the so-called Blue Period and Rose Period – taking us all the way to 1907 and the creation of a critical painting in the history of art – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. It was a painting that shocked the art world but changed it irrevocably. Picasso was only 25 years old. Working closely with all three Picasso Museums in Malaga, Barcelona, and Paris this film explains how he rose to great heights.

Turner Big Screen Classics: My Fair Lady

55th Anniversary

Sunday, February 17, 5 PM

Rated: PG

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Jeremy Brett, Gladys Cooper
Director: George Cukor
Costume Design: Cecil Beaton, Michael Neuwirth

In this beloved musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond — one that is threatened by an aristocratic suitor (Jeremy Brett).

In 1964 with a production budget of $17 million, My Fair Lady was the most expensive film shot in the United States up to that time and won the Academy Award for Best PIcture.

Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality

Rated: NR

Thursday, February 21, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 3, 1 PM

Director: David Pujol
Screenplay: David Pujol, Montse Aguer

The documentary proposes an exhaustive journey through the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and also of Gala, his muse and collaborator. It starts in 1929, a crucial year in Dalí‘s career and life, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and advances until the year of the artist’s death in 1989. In all this vital and artistic journey, Dalí‘s geographies, especially Portlligat, stand out as the only stable home-workshop he possesses; Figueres, his hometown, where he creates his Dalí Theater-Museum, and Púbol, where the Castle is an exponent of courtly love, which Dalí gives to Gala. But naturally other cities, especially Paris and New York are also central.

NT Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

by William Shakespeare
Broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London

Sunday, February 24, 1 PM

Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins.
Starring: Simon Russell Beale as Richard II

Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into an uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize power, the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges the throne and the king’s divine right to rule. Simon Russell Beale returns to National Theatre Live screens following broadcasts of Timon of Athens and King Lear, and his recent role in the National Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy.

Met Live in HD: La Fille Du Régimen

by Gaetano Donizetti

Saturday, March 2, 12:55 PM

Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

Captain Marvel

Rated: PG-13

Premiere: Thursday, March 7, 7 PM

Cast: Brie Larson, Jude Law, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Gemma Chan, Mckenna Grace
Director: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Screenplay: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Nicole Perlman, Liz Flahive, Meg LeFauve, Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Captain Marvel follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, this is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Bolshoi Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty

Sunday, March 10, 12:55 PM

Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: after Ivan Vsevolojski and Marius Petipa

A resplendent fairytale ballet The Sleeping Beauty features scores of magical characters including fairies, the Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and a beautiful young Princess Aurora performed by Olga Smirnova, a “truly extraordinary talent” (The Telegraph). This is classical ballet at its finest.

Met Live in HD: Die Walküre

Saturday, March 30, 12 PM
Note earlier start time

The second installment of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung by Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria
Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humanity.

Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age

Sunday, April 7, 12:55 PM

Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto: Yuri Grigorovich and Isaak Glikman

In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the cabaret and realizes that she is the beautiful dancer “Mademoiselle Margot,” but also the love interest of the local gangster Yashka. With its jazzy score by Shostakovich and its music-hall atmosphere featuring beautiful tangos, The Golden Age is a refreshing and colorful dive into the roaring 20’s.