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Event Cinema for November 2014
It’s another bumper month for event cinema locally. Here’s a handy cyber-cut-out’n’keep rundown of what’s on offer. Head over to the what’s on section for more information, trailers where available, and details of participating cinemas
Met Opera: Carmen
Richard Eyre’s production of Bizet’s steamy opera, which now ranks as the most commercially successful event in the Met’s Live in HD broadcast series.
Screening: Nov 1
Royal Opera House: I due Foscari Encore
Tenor Placido Domingo gives his first London performance in a rare baritone role in Thaddeus Strassberger’s 2012 production of the Verdi opera. An ‘encore’ screening of last month’s live broadcast.
Screening: Nov 2
Andre Rieu’s 2014 Maastricht Concert Encore
Another chance to see the bouffant-haired, self-styled King of the Waltz delighting middle-aged folks with a programme of light popular classics in his hometown.
Screening: Nov 2
National Theatre Encore: Frankenstein
Encore screenings of Danny Boyle’s acclaimed production, with Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch swapping roles as creature and boffin.
Screening: Nov 4 & Nov 6
Exhibition on Screen Encore: Matisse
An updated reworking of the broadcast of the Tate Modern’s blockbuster ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs’ exhibition, with new footage from MoMA.
Screening: Nov 4 & Nov 6
The Vatican Museums
An HD nose around the treasures of the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel – in 3D ‘dimensionalisation’, no less.
Screening: Nov 18
David Bowie Is
An opportunity to relive the V&A’s hugely popular rummage through Dame David’s dressing-up box.
Screening: Nov 18
Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Bartlett Sher’s 2006 production of Rossini’s opere buffa, with Isabel Leonard as the feisty Rosina.
Screening: Nov 22
Bolshoi Ballet: The Pharaoh’s Daughter
Lavishly staged Egyptian hoofing in French choreographer Pierre Lacotte’s 2000 resurrection of Marius Petipa’s ballet.
Screening: Nov 23
Queen Rock Montreal
Classic stadium concert now remastered in 4K, so you can savour every hair in Freddie’s moustache.
Screening: Nov 24
Hockney
Randall Wright’s documentary portrait of the celebrated artist and smoking enthusiast, followed by a satellite Q&A broadcast from Hockney’s LA studio.
Screening: Nov 25
Royal Opera House: L’elisir d’amore
Laurent Pelly’s much-acclaimed staging of Donizetti’s crowd-pleasing comic opera returns to Covent Garden.
Screening: Nov 26 & 30
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