Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s celebrated staging. Baritone Michael Volle sings his first Verdi role at the Met as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance. Reuniting after their acclaimed turns in the production’s 2019 run are soprano Ailyn Pérez as Alice Ford, soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg Page, and mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly. Soprano Hera Hyesang Park [read more…]

Monday 3rd April 2023 - 7.30pm at Erin Arts Centre Adults £5 / Friends of Rushen Heritage Trust £4 - general admission (no assigned seating). Popular local historian Peter Kelly presents some of the fascinating pictures he put together for the Isle of Man Examiner Millennium Supplement in 1999, the images taken from photographs, magic lantern slides and glass plate negatives held in the Manx National Heritage collection - and presented in Peter’s inimitable and [read more…]

Wednesday 12th March 2023 - screenings at 2pm and 7.30pm Adults £6 / Under 18s £2 Starring Sex Education's Emma Mackey and directed by Frances O' Connor, the film imagines Emily Bronte's transformative and exhilarating journey to womanhood. As the rebellious misfit strives for personal and artistic freedom within the confines of her family life, she channels her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time. UK Rating: 15

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging. This live cinema transmission is part of [read more…]

“Ravens’ Nests & Spring Tides” – writing about place and nature in Iceland and the Isle of Man  Author talk by Dr Sarah Thomas and Dr Fiona Gell  Wednesday 19 April 7.30pm  Authors Sarah Thomas and Fiona Gell have written about two very different places – Iceland’s Westfjords and the underwater world around the Isle of Man – but their writing has captured the landscapes, nature and heritage that have shaped their own stories.  From [read more…]

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021–22. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo- [read more…]

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing at the Oscars 2023. The penultimate Midweek Movie of the season is Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's mind-melting, multi-Oscar-winning, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Wednesday 17th May 2023 at the Erin Arts Centre - screenings at 2pm and 7.30pm - tickets £6 (under 18s £2) Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Wang, a laundromat owner who becomes [read more…]