Tickets £15 / Under 18s £2 Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th century Vienna to the New York Met in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny [read more…]

2pm Wednesday 3rd December £2 minimum donation Caliban Shriekes by Jack Hilton Definitely not a novel (whatever its publishers say) but definitely very interesting is Jack Hilton's 1935 book Caliban Shrieks. Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant, it has been reissued in hardback by Vintage Classics and lauded as a lost literary masterpiece in the New Yorker. Join us for the first Wednesday of the month at 2pm to chat about our chosen [read more…]

Tickets: £14 adults / £12 over 65 / £12 under 18 Welcome to our 1940s New York radio studio to watch some fabulous performers bring this Dickens classic to life! Our actors will take on over 40 different roles, transforming themselves with every word to capture the wonder, the chills, and the heart of this timeless Christmas tale for a special broadcast "coast to coast".  The evening is complete with vintage commercials and the magic [read more…]

Tickets £15 / Unders 18s £2 Umberto Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their [read more…]