The screening of live theatre and grand opera at the National Media Museum is long past the ‘try out’ stage and is now a popular cultural feature.
Between now and May 4, the museum has five operas and one National Theatre production booked in for live transmission from New York and London, starting tomorrow with Berlioz’s mighty opera Les Troyens, based on the Homeric saga of Ancient Greece’s ten-year siege of the city of Troy It comes from New York’s Metropolitan Opera House.
On January 19, there’s Donizetti’s opera about the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, Maria Stuarda, who was executed by the protestant regime of Queen Elizabeth I.
Two performances of the National Theatre’s production of Arthur Wing Pinero’s Victorian farce The Magistrate can be seen on January 17 and Sunday, January 20.
The play, which ran for a year in London’s West End when it was first performed in 1885, stars Oscar-nominated John Lithgow in the title role of amiable magistrate Posket, with Olivier Award-winner Nancy Carroll as his wife Agatha.
For tickets, call 0844 8563797
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