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1 85-year-old Man, 2 Original Body Parts, 5 Countries, 16 Cities, 23 shows, 6 weeks. Will he make it home ... or is this the end of the road? One of the most recognisable figures in British comedy, John Cleese’s career spans six decades - from his early days with the Cambridge Footlights to co-founding Monty Python, co-creating Fawlty Towers, and writing and starring in the Oscar-nominated “A Fish Called Wanda”. His unique brand of black humour has made him a global icon and intergalactic treas...

• Wednesday, November 19th

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Georgia’s former prime minister has found a unique hobby. He collects century-old trees, some as tall as 15-floor buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast. At a great expense and inconvenience, these ancient giants are uprooted from their lands to be transplanted in his private garden....

• Monday, September 22nd

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera TOSCA [New Production] AS LIVE: Wednesday 1st October 2025, 18:45 BST Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Sung in Italian with subtitles Cast: Floria Tosca ANNA NETREBKO Mario Cavaradossi FREDDIE DE TOMMASO Baron Scarpia GERALD FINLEY Spoletta CARLO BOSI Cesare Angelotti OSSIAN HUSKINSON Sacristan ALESSANDRO CORBELLI Sciarrone SIPHE KWANI Creatives: Music GIACOMO PUCCINI Conductor JAKUB HRŮŠA Director OLIVER MEARS...

• Wednesday, October 1st

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet GISELLE LIVE: Tuesday 3rd March 2026, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Choreography MARIUS PETIPA after JEAN CORALLI and JULES PERROT Music ADOLPHE ADAM Edited by LARS PAYNE Conductor VELLO PAHN Scenario THÉOPHILE GAUTIER after HEINRICH HEINE Production and Additional Choreography PETER WRIGHT Designer JOHN MACFARLANE Original Lighting JENNIFER TIPTON Re-created by DAVID...

• Tuesday, March 3rd

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Based on the popular board game, this comedy begins at a dinner party hosted by Mr. Boddy, where he admits to blackmailing his visitors. These guests, who have been given aliases, are Mrs. Peacock, Miss Scarlet, Mr. Green, Professor Plum, Mrs. White and Col. Mustard. When Boddy turns up murdered, all are suspects, and together they try to figure out who is the killer....

• Friday, October 31st

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The Big Bike Film Night is on a mission - bringing the best short cycling films from around the world together for you. The Big Bike Film Night is back for 2025! Showcasing 2.5 hours of riveting bike films that have everything a cycle-centric audience could want – action, drama, humour, and plenty of inspiration. The evening is unashamedly and utterly, utterly, utterly designed and devised to delight the two-wheel devotee! The 2025 treasure chest of films includes an exhilarating film that red...

• Thursday, October 9th

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Highland Perthshire Plus presents a special relaxed screening of 'Downton Abbey' on Saturday 13 September at 10:30am. Tickets £6. In a relaxed screening, there is no pre-show. So the film will start at the scheduled start time. The lights are left on low throughout and the sound is set to a lower volume. You are free and very welcome to speak, sing, clap and laugh throughout the screening. All welcome. DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the C...

• Saturday, September 20th

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The highly anticipated 19th Annual Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) is back and ready with a curated selection of the best fly fishing films from around the world. Anglers, outdoor enthusiasts, and adventure seekers are invited to join the tour as it visits cities nationwide, showcasing stunning cinematography, unforgettable stories, and the heart-pounding excitement of fly fishing. This year’s event promises to be the biggest yet, with a diverse lineup of films that highlight remote locations, uniqu...

• Tuesday, November 11th

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Join us for some live streamed taster sessions of Bloody Scotland at the Birks. If you enjoy them, there are plenty of other sessions over the weekend which you can either pop along to Stirling to see or watch online. www.bloodyscotland.com/whats-on/ Sunday 14 September 1:30pm, Scotland the Grave: Marion Todd, Foday Mannah, Callum McSorley Scottish crime fiction is the broadest of churches, albeit often awfy sacrilegious. We round off the 2025 festival with three very different but excellent b...

• Sunday, September 14th

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At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't, in Charlotte Wells' emotiona...

• Tuesday, November 18th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Metropolitan Opera LA SONNAMBULA [New Production] AS LIVE: Tuesday 21st October 2025, 18:45 BST Running time: 195 minutes, One Interval Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Cast: Amina NADINE SIERRA Lisa SYDNEY MANCASOLA Elvino XABIER ANDUAGA Rodolfo ALEXANDER VINOGRADOV Creatives: Music VINCENZO BELLINI Conductor RICCARDO FRIZZA Director ROLANDO VILLAZÓN Set Designer JOHANNES LEIACKER Costumer Designer BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL Lighti...

• Tuesday, October 21st

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Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and MFA Houston 'Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon'. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film...

• Tuesday, May 19th

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. Set against a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy, in a world designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection. It tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse picker in Edinburgh, Scotland. Trapped between the confines of a vast distribution centre and the solitude of her own bedroom, Aurora seeks out every opportunity to resist the alienation...

• Sunday, June 21st

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera SIEGFRIED LIVE: Tuesday 31st March 2026, 17:15 BST Running time: 330 minutes (to be confirmed) Sung in German with subtitles Cast: Siegfried ANDREAS SCHAGER Mime PETER HOARE Der Wanderer CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN Brünnhilde ELISABET STRID Alberich CHRISTOPHER PURVES Fafner SOLOMAN HOWARD Erda WIEBKE LEHMKUHL Woodbird SARAH DUFRESNE Creatives: Music RICHARD WAGNER Conductor ANTONIO PAPPANO Director BARRIE KOSKY Set Designer RUFUS DI...

• Tuesday, March 31st

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Friday, 12 Sept at 7:30pm - Costumes encouraged. Don't forget your bottle of bubbly to take into the screening! DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the centre of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter wi...

• Sunday, September 14th

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• Monday, September 15th

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• Tuesday, September 16th

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• Wednesday, September 17th

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• Thursday, September 18th

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. 18-year-old Totone spends most of his time drinking beer and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends until reality catches up with him when he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He sets out to make the best Comté cheese in the region in an attempt to win the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros. Dir: Louise Courvoisier Cast: Clément Faveau, Maïwene Barthelemy, Luna Ga...

• Sunday, December 14th

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Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from...

• Sunday, March 15th

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Part of the Heartland Film Society Monthly Series Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Cl...

• Sunday, October 19th

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Join us at the Birks Cinema on Friday 26 September at 7:30pm for 'Living Stone', a Fringe First-winning show by Mairi Campbell, created with director Kath Burlinson and co-composer Dave Gray. The journey begins with the discovery of an ancient millstone on Mairi’s great-grandmother’s croft on the Isle of Lismore, leading her to uncover the stone’s secrets and the captivating images and stories it holds.Blending live music, song and Mairi’s beautiful viola playing with striking visual a...

• Friday, September 26th

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Quo Vadis, Aida? In 1995, the single worst atrocity of the Bosnian War happened in Srebrenica. Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslin man and boys were slaughtered by Serb forces. And yet there remain people who deny that this atrocity took place in this community where neighbour turned against neighbour. 'Quo Vadis, Aida?' is a dramatisation of the events leading up to and after the genocide. This film is sponsored by a local supporter of Beyond Srebrenica, a Scottish Charity that promotes awareness of t...

• Tuesday, September 30th

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare directed by Robert Hastie Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining....

• Thursday, January 22nd

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. Hilmar Oddsson’s delightful 1980-set darkly comedic road movie is an oddball odyssey of self-discovery and acceptance across the beautifully photographed landscapes of Iceland. Middle-aged and disappointed, Jón (Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson) spends his days knitting and listening to the radio with his domineering elderly mother (Kristbjörg Kjeld) on their rural Icelandic farmstead. With his life overtaken with looking after his home and his mother’...

• Sunday, September 21st

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Step into a night of music, romance, and celebration with André Rieu’s Waltz the Night Away! An all-new summer concert captured live from the stunning Vrijthof Square in his beloved hometown of Maastricht is coming to cinemas! Each night, the Vrijthof transforms into a grand ballroom as André and his Johann Strauss Orchestra invite audiences of all ages to waltz under the stars. With timeless melodies and beautiful waltzes, this concert will take you on a journey filled with joy, love, and hear...

• Sunday, September 28th

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Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright? Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing...

• Thursday, September 25th

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From Tom Opre, director of 'The Last Keeper', comes 'The Real Yellowstone' – a powerful, cinematic documentary that reveals the disappearing culture of ranching families across the American West and their growing struggle to hold onto their land, drawing striking parallels with the impact of modern land management in Scotland and beyond. With soaring imagery, unfiltered interviews and a score by Scottish composer Paul Mounsey, the film asks: what happens to the environment when its closest stew...

• Monday, October 27th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet CINDERELLA AS LIVE: Tuesday 25th November 2025, 19:15 GMT Running time: 195 minutes (To be confirmed) Filmed live at the Royal Opera House, London, in December 2024 Cast: Cinderella FUMI KANEKO The Prince WILLIAM BRACEWELL Cinderella’s Step-Sisters BENNET GARTSIDE, JAMES HAY Cinderella’s Father THOMAS WHITEHEAD The Fairy Godmother MAYARA MAGRI The Fairy Spring ISABELLA GASPARINI The Fairy Summer MARIKO SASAKI The Fairy Autumn M...

• Tuesday, November 25th

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This holiday season, the magic begins on the big screen. Join André Rieu for his 2025 Christmas Concert – “Merry Christmas” and experience joyful carols, beautiful waltzes, and plenty of surprises – it’s the ultimate Christmas cinema event! With his fabulous Johann Strauss Orchestra, and special guests including the sensational Emma Kok and over 400 brass players bringing the majestic sound of Christmas, André’s concert is bursting with warmth, laughter, and holiday cheer. Christmas is André’s f...

• Saturday, December 6th

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A special event around the memoir 'Loving Alasdair' and short film, 'Unlikely Murals, Mostly'. Author May Hooper will be joining us at The Birks Cinema on Sunday, 2 November at 6:30pm. Come and meet May. Hear her talk about Alasdair and all the fun and heartache which she had with him and his family. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. May Hooper is a woman who knew Alasdair Gray quite profoundly. He was physically attracted to her. She was wildly fond of him. He remains a major...

• Sunday, November 2nd

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The August quiz will be held in the Birks Cinema Cafe! While the first floor is going through a few more upgrades, we will be in the freshly painted ground floor with Quizmaster Charlie. Gather your friends and family to win the top prize. Each team is allowed a maximum of 4 members, £10 per team. Add a bowl of nachos to share for an additional £5!...

• Friday, October 3rd

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• Friday, November 7th

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Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography… Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and with first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance, this beautiful new film reveals Caravaggio as never before. Multi-award-winning filmmakers David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky d...

• Sunday, November 16th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera LA TRAVIATA LIVE: Wednesday 14th January 2026, 18:45 GMT Running time: 240 minutes (To be confirmed) Sung in Italian with subtitles Cast: Violetta Valéry ERMONELA JAHO Alfredo Germont GIOVANNI SALA Giorgio Germont ALEKSEI ISAEV Annina VEENA AKAMA-MAKIA Doctor Grenvil BARNABY REA Flora Bervoix ELLEN PEARSON Baron Douphol SAM HIRD Gastone de Letorières GIORGI GULIASHVILI Marquis d’Obigny OSSIAN HUSKINSON Creatives: Music GIUSE...

• Wednesday, January 14th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera THE MAGIC FLUTE AS LIVE: Tuesday 21st April 2026, 18:45 BST Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Sung in German with subtitles. Cast: Pamina JULIA BULLOCK Tamino AMITAI PATI Papageno HUW MONTAGUE RENDALL Queen of the Night KATHRYN LEWEK Sarastro SOLOMAN HOWARD Monostatos GERHARD SIEGEL Creatives: Music WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Conductor MARIE JACQUOT Director DAVID MCVICAR Designer JOHN MACFARLANE Lighting Designer PAU...

• Tuesday, April 21st

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE LIVE: Wednesday 5th November 2025, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Choreography FREDERICK ASHTON Music FERDINAND HÉROLD Conductor JONATHAN LO Arrangement and Orchestration JOHN LANCHBERY Scenario JEAN DAUBERVAL Designer OSBERT LANCASTER Lighting Designer JOHN B. READ Synopsis: Lise, the only daughter of Widow Simone, is in love with the young far...

• Wednesday, November 5th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet WOOLF WORKS LIVE: Monday 9th February 2026, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Direction and Choreography WAYNE MCGREGOR Music MAX RICHTER Conductor KOEN KESSELS Designer CIGUË, WE NOT I, WAYNE MCGREGOR Costume Designer MORITZ JUNGE Lighting Designer LUCY CARTER Film Designer RAVI DEEPRES Sound System Designer CHRIS EKERS Make-up Designer KABUKI Dramaturgy UZMA HAMEED Syn...

• Monday, February 9th

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The Fifth Step by David Ireland directed by Finn den Hertog Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luk...

• Thursday, November 27th

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To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of HAMILTON, the recording of the original Broadway cast is hitting the big screen for a limited 3-day engagement, including a cast reunion featuring all-new interviews with members of the original cast and creators. An unforgettable cinematic stage performance, the filmed version of the original Broadway production of HAMILTON combines the best elements of live cinema and film to create a thrilling experience. HAMILTON is the story of America then, told by Ame...

• Sunday, September 28th

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Housewife Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants, and flowers. She is confrontational with everyone, especially her plumber husband Curtley and her unemployed son Moses, whom she thinks is wasting his life. Her sister Chantelle (Michele Austin) runs a thriving hair salon. A single mum, she enjoys life, and lives harmoniously with her daughters Kayla, who works in cosmetics, and Aleisha, a trainee lawyer....

• Sunday, November 16th

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation...

• Sunday, January 18th

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National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren’s Profession by Bernard Shaw directed by Dominic Cooke Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost? Filmed...

• Thursday, October 23rd

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The show Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey tells this story in music, song, words and pictures of the islanders' emigration, its effect on the islands and how some of those who emigrated thrived but others sometimes did not thrive while trying to farm on poor soil! Doors 7pm Show Starts 7:30pm Interval 8:30pm (approx) Show over by 10pm Metagama merchandise will be available for purchase. In April 1923 the SS Metagama left Stornoway with over 300 young islanders onboard, bound for Canada. Within a...

• Tuesday, November 4th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Metropolitan Opera EUGENE ONEGIN AS LIVE: Tuesday 5th May 2026, 18:00 BST Running time: 245 minutes, Two Intervals Sung in Russian with English subtitles Cast: Tatiana ASMIK GRIGORIAN Olga MARIA BARAKOVA Filippyevna STEPHANIE BLYTHE Lenski STANISLAS DE BARBEYRAC Eugene Onegin IGOR GOLOVATENKO Prince Gremin ALEXANDER TSYMBALYUK Creatives: Music PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Conductor TIMUR ZANGIEV Director DEBORAH WARNER Set Designer TOM PYE...

• Tuesday, May 5th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet THE NUTCRACKER LIVE: Wednesday 10th December 2025, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes, One Interval (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Choreography PETER WRIGHT after LEV IVANOV Music PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY Conductor KOEN KESSELS Original Scenario MARIUS PETIPA after E.T.A. HOFFMANN Production and Scenario PETER WRIGHT Designer JULIA TREVELYAN OMAN Lighting Designer MARK HENDERSON Production Consultant...

• Wednesday, December 10th

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