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Event Cinema for February 2015
Wagner, the Backstreet Boys and a double dose of Shakespeare. This month’s event cinema programme is another mixed bag. See the what’s on section for full details of what’s showing where.
Royal Opera House Live: Andrea Chernier
Umberto Giordano’s verismo opera is based on the last years of real-life poet Andre Chenier, who had an unfortunate appointment with Mme Guillotine during the French revolution. It’s back on the Covent Garden stage for the first time since 1985, in a lavish new production staged by David McVicar.
Screening: Feb 1 (encore screening)
RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Christopher Luscombe’s update of Shakespeare’s great comedy to the summer of 1914, beamed live by satellite from Stratford-upon-Avon. Luscombe’s companion piece, Love’s Labour’s Won (aka Much Ado About Nothing), boasts the same cast and is broadcast live to cinemas on March 4.
Screening: Feb 11
Met Opera: Iolanta & Bluebeard’s Castle
Two rarely-staged one act operas, by Tchaikovsky and Bartok respectively, both of which are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, artistic director of Warsaw’s Polish National Opera
Screening: Feb 14
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Recorded Live from Dublin
Billed as the most successful duo in rock history, which may come as something of a surprise to fans of Simon and Garfunkel, Hall & Oates played their first ever Dublin show at the city’s Olympia Theatre on July 15, 2014. The whole thing was recorded live in 4K for this cinema screening prior to next month’s blu ray and DVD release.
Screening: Feb 19
Royal Opera House: Der fliegende Hollander
Bryn Terfel returns to sing the tormented Dutchman in Tim Albery’s much-acclaimed modern-dress production of Wagner’s romantic masterpiece, which was first staged at the Royal Opera House in 2009.
Screening: Feb 24 & March 1 (encore screening)
King Lear: Stratford Festival
That’s the Stratford Festival of Canada, in case you’re wondering. Colm Feore stars in Stratford artistic director Antoni Cimolino’s production, which now ranks as the one of the festival’s biggest sellers of all time
Screening: Feb 25
Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of
Warts’n’all documentary following the aging boy band as they reunite after six years apart for a new album. What makes this potentially more interesting for non-fans is that it’s directed by Stephen Kijack, who gave us The Stones in Exile and Scott Walker: 30 Century Man. The screening is followed by a live satellite performance.
Screening: Feb 26
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