The next in our series of OnScreen films features Opera Australia’s breathtaking harbour-side production of La Boheme on Tuesday, November 20.
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From the World’s Most Spectacular Opera series, experience the love, laughter and loss of La Boheme at the magnificent Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour.
Puccini’s beloved classic – the original bohemian love story – has long captivated audiences around the world. His music swells with love, soars in ecstasy, crackles with jealousy and cries with heartache. With lavish sets and costumes transforming the harbour-top stage into a romantic Paris winter, Opera Australia’s glittering production will be an unforgettable delight.
Described by Limlight magazine as “a beautiful balance between intimacy and grandeur” this magnificent production caught on film will delight and beguile audiences.
We are showing two screenings: 10am and 7pm, with free morning tea offered at the matinee. Don’t miss this very special film. Book: theMEC.com.au or phone 6592 5466 during box office hours.
Ian McKellen shines in OnScreen Lear
Filmed from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas. Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season.
Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
See King Lear on Tuesday, November 27.
The Merry Widow on the big screen
Another anticipated filmed production is coming in December when we’re screening the Australian Ballet’s “The Merry Widow on Tuesday, December 11.
Irresistibly frothy and lavishly theatrical, The Merry Widow has enough tangled affairs, narrow misses and jealous lovers to fuel a French farce.
Based on the beloved operetta, this lively tale is set in the ballrooms and salons of Belle Époque Paris and is dressed magnificently in velvets, silks, spangles and feathers. Created especially for The Australian Ballet and captured live at the Sydney Opera House, The Merry Widow is a laugh-along favourite with hum-along melodies and its heart on its sleeve.
