Cinemas across the UK to screen entire Royal Opera House season live

Thanks to the Empire Extra programme, you can enjoy opera from an Empire cinema
Saturday night at the movies: The Royal Opera House 2016/17 season will be broadcasted live o Empire Cinemas
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Cerys Kenneally25 May 2016

A trip to the Royal Opera House is a prestigious event and comes with plenty of spectacle. But it also involves a fair bit of expense — and that's if you can even get tickets.

Now there is a more accessible alternative. Empire Cinemas have teamed up with the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden to live broadcast all of its operas across the whole 2016/17 season.

That means you can catch the action at several cinemas around the capital and beyond for around £15. And although it might not be able to boast quite the same atmosphere, the view from the cinema screen may actually be better.

Cinemas taking part include those in Leicester Square, Bromley, Sutton and Walthamstow.

Empire Cinemas will broadcast 12 live performances, half of which are operas, and half ballets.

What to see at the theatre – in pictures

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The operas/ballets being live broadcasted to Empire Cinemas are:

Operas

September 29 2016: Norma

October 17 2016: Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte

November 15 2016: Les Contes D’Hoffmann

January 31 2017: Il Trovatore

March 30 2017: Madama Butterfly

June 28 2017: Otello

Ballet

October 17 2016: Anastasia

December 8 2016: The Nutcracker

February 8 2017: Woolf Works

February 28 2017: The Sleeping Beauty

April 11 2017: Jewels

June 7 2017: The Dream/Symphonic Variations/Marguerite and Armand

Visit www.roh.org.uk/cinemas for more infomation.

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