Screenings

Ballet Screening (approx. 165 mins) An NCPA-Pathé Live (Paris) Presentation Swanhilda notices her fiancé Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two sweethearts, Coppélia is not what she seems and Swanhilda decides to teach Franz a lesson. The company’s stunning corps de ballet shines in the divertissements and famous “dance of the hours”, and its principals abound in youthful energy and irresistible humour in this effervescent production. Music: […]

By Giuseppe Verdi Opera Screening (approx. 220 mins) Sung in Italian with English Subtitles An NCPA-The Metropolitan Opera (New York) Presentation Aida is a classic story of love and betrayal. Set in Memphis, in the capital city of ancient Egypt, Ethiopian princess Aida is held prisoner. An Egyptian general, Radames, is secretly in love with Aida, and she with him. The story has a twist when Radames is chosen to lead a war against Ethiopia and Aida is conflicted between […]

Encore Ballet Screening (approx. 190 mins) An NCPA-Pathé Live (Paris) Presentation Inspired by heroic stories of brave knights, Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful servant Sancho Panza set out on an adventure to meet his ideal woman, Dulcinea. Cervantes’s hero comes to life in the Bolshoi’s critically acclaimed staging of this exalting performance. With panache and sparkling technique, principal dancers Ekaterina Krysanova and Semyon Chudin lead the spectacular cast of toreadors, flamenco dancers, gypsies and dryads in virtuosic […]

Ballet Screening (approx.120 mins) An NCPA-Pathé Live (Paris) Presentation On the day of his wedding, the young Scotsman James is awoken with a kiss from an ethereal winged creature, a Sylph. Entranced by her beauty, James risks everything to pursue an unattainable love. La Sylphide is one of the world’s oldest surviving ballets, and a treasure in the Danish Bournonville style. Restaged for the Bolshoi by Bournonville expert Johan Kobborg, this production is the ultimate romantic masterpiece. Music: Herman Severin Løvenskiold Choreography: […]

By Giuseppe Verdi Opera Screening Sung in Italian with English Subtitles Estimated run time: 3 hours and 7 mins, including two intermissions Set in Paris in the mid-1800s, Violetta, a beautiful courtesan gives up the frills and fancies of high society for the love of a younger man, Alfredo.  They begin a life together but their happiness is ruined when Alfredo’s father pressures Violetta to break the marriage for the reputation of his family. She loves Alfredo so much that […]

Carmen by Georges Bizet Carmen is a half-wild gypsy living with a band of smugglers in the mountains near the coast of Spain. Set in the year 1830 in Seville, the opera shows the love and jealousy of Don José, who is lured away from his duty as a soldier and his beloved Micaëla by the gypsy factory-girl Carmen, whom he allows to escape from custody. Sung in French with English Subtitles/ Opera Screening Conductor: Louis Langrée Production: Sir Richard Eyre Cast: Clémentine Margaine, Aleksandra Kurzak, […]

La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) by Gaetano Donizetti Marie, a charming tomboy, was adopted by the French army regiment. She is supposed to marry a soldier from the regiment, but falls in love with Tonio, a peasant boy. In order for her to marry Tonio, he must first join the regiment to become eligible to be her husband. However, Marie learns that she is in fact the daughter of a Marchioness and her mother arranges for […]

By Ludwig Minkus Ballet Screening (210 mins) An NCPA-Pathé Live (Paris) Presentation  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 Bayadèreis one of the greatest works in classical ballet history – a story of love, death and vengeful judgment set in India. Dazzling sets, costumes, and one of the most iconic scenes in ballet, the “Kingdom of […]

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner Die Walküre is the second of the four operas that comprise Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung. The story is based on Norse mythology, where the Valkyries decide which soldiers die in battle and which live. All the Gods have lost their power, and in order to get it back, Wotan, the ruler of the Gods, fathered twins – Siegmund and Sieglinde – with a mortal woman. Wotan’s wife Fricka is furious and […]

By Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Princess Aurora falls under the curse of the Evil Fairy Carabosse on her sixteenth birthday, falling into a deep slumber of one hundred years. Only the kiss of a prince can break the spell. A resplendent fairytale ballet performed by the Bolshoi, The Sleeping Beauty features scores of magical characters including fairies, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and a beautiful young Princess Aurora performed by Olga Smirnova, a “truly extraordinary talent” (The Telegraph). This […]