Arts on Screen - Saffron Screen

The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

BUY TICKETS 7pm Wednesday 27 February

PLAY broadcast AS LIVE from the Almeida Theatre, London (recorded live on 15 January)

Simon Russell Beale plays Richard II in this visceral new production of Shakespeare’s play about the limits of power.

La Fille du Régiment

BUY TICKETS 7pm Tuesday 5 March

OPERA broadcast AS LIVE from the Metropolitan Opera, New York (recorded live on Saturday 2 March)

Full of wit and invention, Donizetti’s comic opera is a delight.

Bite-Sized Ballets: Tortoise & The Hare

BUY TICKETS 2pm Saturday 9 March
BUY TICKETS 2pm Sunday 10 March

Little ones will dance with excitement as tortoise proves to hare that speed isn’t the only way to win a race.

Young Picasso

BUY TICKETS 7.30pm Tuesday 12 March

ART FILM by Phil Grabsky for Exhibition on Screen

Working closely with all three Picasso Museums in Malaga, Barcelona and Paris this film explains how the great artist Pablo Picasso rose to great heights.

The Great Escape

BUY TICKETS 6pm Sunday 24 March

GALA SCREENING on the 75^th anniversary with special guests The D-Day Darlings LIVE from the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith.

24 March 2019 marks the 75^th anniversary of the real-life POW escape during World War II at the Luftwaffe-run Stalag Luft III prison in then German-occupied Poland.

Die Walküre

BUY TICKETS 4pm Saturday 30 March

OPERA broadcast LIVE from the Metropolitan Opera, New York

Featuring some of the most glorious music ever written – including, of course, the Ride of the Valkyries – Die Walküre is the second of the four operas that comprise Wagner’s Ring cycle, a story of monsters, gods and humans on a superhuman scale.

Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story: Live Film Event from the Royal Opera House

BUY TICKETS 7pm Wednesday 3 April

DIRECTOR Icíar Bollaín

A fascinating biopic about the Cuban dancer, Carlos Acosta, followed by a Q&A, broadcast by satellite from the ROH, with the dancer himself and the film’s writer and director.

The King and I: From the London Palladium

BUY TICKETS 7pm Thursday 4 April

An encore screening of the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I, recorded live from London’s iconic Palladium.

La Forza del Destino

BUY TICKETS 2pm Sunday 7 April

OPERA broadcast AS LIVE from the Royal Opera House (recorded live on Tuesday 2 April)

Christof Loy directs a star-studded cast of singers, including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier, in Verdi’s epic opera, conducted by Antonio Pappano.