Cinema at The Center 2015-2016

CINEMA

at THE CENTER

Opera at the Cinema

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE New to The Center, the finest theatre from London captured live on stage. National Theatre Live launched in 2009 and its high-definition broadcasts have now been experienced by over 3.5 million people around the world. NT Live audiences in the U.S. saw Helen Mirren starring in The Audience long before it arrived on Broadway and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time a full year before it became a surprise smash hit. Other NT Live events inlcude productions from the Donmar Warehouse and the Young Vic, both part of London’s equivalent of off-Broadway. The series will include nine screenings, four are listed here, spring season TBA.

OPERA AT THE CINEMA No passport required! Introduced last season, these highdefinition film screenings of classic operas have taken our audiences to the opera houses of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.

A program of Rising Alternatives, this series brings the world’s richest cultural spectacles to you, all within a short drive from home. The season will inlcude four screenings; they take place on Sunday afternoons at 2pm.

On the cover: Poster for the Barbican Theatre production of Hamlet, courtesy of National Theatre Live Scene from Tosca © Croisier

TICKETS Tickets to individual screenings are $20 RISING ALTERNATIVES OPERA at the CINEMA Single tickets go on sale August 4 No passport required! Introduced during the 2014-2015 season, Series subscriptions are available now these high-definition film screenings of classic operas have taken our Buy four within a series & take 20% Berlin, off and Vienna. A program audiences to the opera houses of Paris, Buy three within a series & take 15%the offworld’s richest cultural of Rising Alternatives, this series brings spectacles all within a short drive from home.

All seatingtoisyou, general admission TICKETS $20 Buy all four and get 20% off, buy three get 15% off.

TO ORDER

By phone 914-251-6200 Online at www.artscenter.org Box office hours Tuesday - Friday, noon to 6pm * Please note that all prices include a $2.50 per ticket college administrative fee. Any discounts will be calculated from the base price. Standard ticket service fees will apply. Series subscrptions not available online.

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Sunday, September 20, 2pm

Sunday, October 18, 2pm

Stephen Daldry’s acclaimed production of David Hare’s play with Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan reprising their Broadway and London West End roles as former lovers who attempt to rekindle their once-passionate relationship. “…scorching – a brilliant play” – Mail on Sunday

George Farquhar’s 1707 play is a “rom-com” of love and cash in which two young men who have blown through their fortunes share one goal: to marry for money.

Directed by Simon Goodwin, this wild comedy was applauded

by Time Out: “This Restoration romp is a lot of fun!”

From London’s West End The National Theatre Production Recorded live July 2014

From the Olivier Theatre The National Theatre Production Recorded live September 2015

HAMLET

CORIOLANUS

Thursday, November 12, 7pm

Sunday, January 24, 2pm

Benedict Cumberbatch, star of Sherlock and Oscar nominee for The Imitation Game tackles one of the most challenging roles in the English theater in a production directed

by Lyndsey Turner. The 2 ½-month West End run sold out weeks before its first scheduled performance.

Director Josie Rourke’s production, cheered by The Independent as “magnificent” and starring one of England’s most sought-after stage actors, Tom Hiddleston, was so highly praised that the production quickly sold out and tickets were selling on online auction sites for more than £2,000!

From London’s West End The Barbican Theatre Production Recorded live October 2015

From Covent Garden The Donmar Warehouse Production Recorded live in January 2014

© Brescia Amisano

© A. Bofill

NORMA

AIDA

Sunday, September 27, 2pm

Sunday, November 8, 2pm

Bellini’s most famous opera, featuring a powerful and vengeful classical heroine, in a production directed by American stage director Kevin Newbury with conducting by Renato Palumbo and featuring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky as the high priestess who breaks her vow of chastity.

Following in the footsteps of Zeffirelli’s masterful productions this all new presentation of Verdi’s magnificent opera is led by two great masters: conductor Zubin Mehta, returning to La Scala, and director Peter Stein. This quintessential lyric opera features soprano Kristin Lewis.

Sung in Italian From Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona Recorded live February 2015

Sung in Italian From Teatro Alla Scala di Milano Milan Recorded live February 2015

© Croisier

TOSCA

DIE

ZAUBERFLÖTE

Sunday, March 20, 2pm

Sunday, May 8, 2pm

A new production of Puccini’s fifth opera and first masterpiece, a tale of jealousy, turmoil, despair and the dreams of society’s lower classes. Paolo Arrivabeni conducts the classic opera with stage direction by Claire Servais and Barbara Haveman singing the title role.

From Austria’s Bregenz Festival, this spectacular production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, sung in German, features fire-spewing “dragon dogs,” mythical creatures operated by puppeteers, and dozens of stunt artists in this staging by David Pountney and conducted by Patrick Summers.

Sung in Italian From Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège Recorded live January 2015

Sung in German From Bregenz Festival Vienna Symphony Orchestra Recorded live July 2013

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