Coming Soon

A Complete Unknown

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Stars: Timothée ChalametElle FanningEdward Norton

Movie specifics

  • 141 minutes
  • Release date: 
    23 Jan 2025

The Brutalist

Includes a 15 minute intermission at 100 minutes When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client. Stars: Adrien BrodyFelicity JonesGuy Pearce

Movie specifics

  • 215 minutes
  • Release date: 
    23 Jan 2025

Royal Ballet: Cinderella

This summer, be transported into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true. This enchanting ballet by The Royal Ballet’s Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton is a theatrical experience for all the family. Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, life for Cinderella (Fumi Kaneko) is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out...With a little bit of magic, she is transported into an ethereal new world – one where fairies bring the gifts of the seasons, where pumpkins turn into carriages, and where true love awaits.
Screening Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 January at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 29 January at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00

Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 195 minutes
  • Release date: 
    25 Jan 2025

Companion

A billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate. Stars: Sophie ThatcherJack QuaidRupert Friend

Movie specifics

  • 97 minutes
  • Release date: 
    30 Jan 2025

La Scala: La Forza del Destino

La Scala’s gala season opening is always a glittering affair, and a highlight of the international arts calendar. This year the stars – Anna Netrebko, Brian Jagde, Ludovic Tézier – align for Leo Muscato’s new production of Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love. Riccardo Chailly conducts a work that offers some of Verdi’s most memorable melodies, including its haunting overture, the rousing 'Rataplan' march and Leonora's soaring prayer, 'La vergine degli angeli'.
Screening Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 February at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 5 February at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 220 minutes
  • Release date: 
    1 Feb 2025

September 5

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. Stars: Peter SarsgaardJohn MagaroBen Chaplin

Movie specifics

  • 95 minutes
  • Release date: 
    6 Feb 2025

The Room Next Door

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Eventually, they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.Stars: Julianne MooreTilda SwintonJohn Turturro

Movie specifics

  • 107 minutes
  • Release date: 
    6 Feb 2025

Widow Clicquot

Widow Clicquot is based on the true story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century. After her husband's untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she defies her critics and revolutionizes the champagne industry to become one of the world's first great entrepreneurs. Stars: Haley BennettTom SturridgeSam Riley

Movie specifics

  • 90 minutes
  • Release date: 
    6 Feb 2025

Becoming Led Zeppelin

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.
Screening Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 February at 4:30pm
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 121 minutes
  • Release date: 
    8 Feb 2025

Dragonkeeper

ADULTS AT KIDS PRICES! In ancient China, dragons were once friends of humans, but our greed ended their alliance, and these magical creatures were hunted down. Years later, in a remote fortress, a young slave girl, Ping, strikes up an unlikely friendship. Stars: Bill NighyMayalinee GriffithsAnthony HowellBill Bailey

Movie specifics

  • 98 minutes
  • Release date: 
    8 Feb 2025

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

The fourth film in the acclaimed romantic comedy series finds Bridget Jones alone once again after the death of her husband, raising two young children as a single mother and attempting to forge a new path toward life and love. Stars: Renée ZellwegerHugh GrantEmma ThompsonChiwetel Ejiofor

Movie specifics

  • Release date: 
    13 Feb 2025

Captain America: Brave New World

Marvel Studios’ “Captain America: Brave New World” follows Sam Wilson, who after meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red. Stars: Anthony MackieHarrison FordRosa SalazarLiv TylerTim Blake NelsonGiancarlo Esposito

Movie specifics

  • 125 minutes
  • Release date: 
    13 Feb 2025

Royal Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann

Four women: four curious love stories. The great Juan Diego Flórez leads a fantastic cast in Offenbach's dream-like opera. Through the haze of the years, a poet remembers the women he loved. But when it comes to matters of the heart, nothing is as it seems. Particularly when the devil himself (Alex Esposito) is involved… 
Journeying back to his school days, Hoffmann relives his childhood romance with Olympia (Olga Pudova), a model student in every sense. Doomed love follows him into adulthood, where the dancer, Antonia (Ermonela Jaho), is taken from him too soon. Meanwhile, the sensual courtesan Giulietta (Maria Costa-Jackson) has her own secret agenda. As memory and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred, will Hoffmann find the enigmatic Stella before it is too late?
Screening Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 February at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 19 February at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00

Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 240 minutes
  • Release date: 
    15 Feb 2025

Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo

David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an ‘enthralling’ (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare’s MACBETH, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, especially for the big screen. Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of Pi, Henry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal. With staging ‘full of wolfish imagination and alarming surprise’ (★★★★★ The Guardian), the immersive 5.1 cinema surround sound places the audience inside the minds of the Macbeths, asking are we ever really responsible for our actions?
Screening Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 February at 1pm
Adults: $25.00, Concessions: $23.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 114 minutes
  • Release date: 
    22 Feb 2025

Spit Q&A Screening Featuring David Wenham

Join us on Saturday February 22 for a very special screening of the Australian film Spit, including a Q&A with the film's star David Wenham live on stage! 
In the follow up to 2003's hit comedy "Gettin' Square", Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his tail and a target on his back, he navigates a series of comedic misadventures. Stars: David WenhamGary SweetDavid RobertsDavid FieldHelen Thomson
Saturday February 22- 6:45pm for 7pm screening, with Q&A to follow after
Adult $20; Concessions $18 - Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 102 minutes
  • Release date: 
    22 Feb 2025

The Last Journey

THE LAST JOURNEY follows Filip Hammar’s father Lars, who is retiring after 40 years as a beloved French teacher in Koping, Sweden. But instead of a “third age” with travel, wine, and experiences together with his wife, he becomes passive and tired. Filip and his best friend Fredrik, take Lars to his beloved France and let him revisit the places he loves. By making the same road trip that the family used to make when Filip was a child and staging some of his father’s fondest memories (often with hilarious consequences), they hope to rekindle Lars’ spark. Stars: Filip HammarFredrik WikingssonLars Hammar

Movie specifics

  • 90 minutes
  • Release date: 
    27 Feb 2025

The Lost Tiger

Teo is a plucky young tiger and one of the last of his kind. Found abandoned and wearing a mysterious crystal necklace, he is adopted into a big, boisterous kangaroo family of travelling wrestlers. After receiving visions from an unfamiliar land, Teo must suddenly embark on an epic quest to reconnect with his heritage and save his homeland from the clutches of destruction. THE LOST TIGER features an incredible local voice cast including Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords), Celeste Barber (Runt), and Thomas Weatherall (Heartbreak High). Stars: Jimi BaniCeleste BarberRhys Darby

Movie specifics

  • 84 minutes
  • Release date: 
    27 Feb 2025

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Persian Language, English Subtitles. Investigating Judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble. Stars: Mahsa RostamiSetareh MalekiNiousha Akhshi

Movie specifics

  • 168 minutes
  • Release date: 
    27 Feb 2025

White Bird

From the best-selling author of Wonder, the book that sparked a movement to “choose kind,” comes the inspirational next chapter. In White Bird: A Wonder Story, we follow Julian (Bryce Gheisar), who has struggled to belong ever since he was expelled from his former school for his treatment of Auggie Pullman. To transform his life, Julian’s grandmother (Helen Mirren) finally reveals to Julian her own story of courage — during her youth in Nazi-occupied France, a boy shelters her from mortal danger. They find first love in a stunning, magical world of their own creation, while the boy’s mother (Gillian Anderson) risks everything to keep her safe.

Movie specifics

  • 120 minutes
  • Release date: 
    27 Feb 2025

ACO: The Four Seasons – A Music Film

The Australian Chamber Orchestra has always forged its own path. With Artistic Director and violinist Richard Tognetti at the helm, the ACO has been producing films for over a decade, from their award-winning collaborations with BAFTA-nominated director Jennifer Peedom (‘Mountain’, ‘River’) to their acclaimed series of cinematic music films, ‘ACO StudioCasts’. Directed by Matisse Ruby, ‘The Four Seasons’ film release is the latest from this ground-breaking, world-renowned ensemble.
Arguably the most popular and recognisable piece of classical music ever written, this performance directed by Richard Tognetti, highlights the profound symbiosis between Vivaldi’s Venice and the Middle East. Interspersing Vivaldi’s masterpiece with music by Australian-Egyptian composer and Oud virtuoso Joseph Tawardros, the film honours Vivaldi’s classic while giving it new life.
Screening Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 March at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 5 March at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 70 minutes
  • Release date: 
    1 Mar 2025

Hard Truths

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a fierce, compassionate, and humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Starring acclaimed actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste back together with Leigh for the first time since Secrets and Lies. Stars: Samantha SpiroMarianne Jean-BaptisteJo Martin

Movie specifics

  • 97 minutes
  • Release date: 
    6 Mar 2025

Spit

In the follow up to 2003's hit comedy "Gettin' Square", Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his tail and a target on his back, he navigates a series of comedic misadventures. Stars: David WenhamGary SweetDavid RobertsDavid FieldHelen Thomson

Movie specifics

  • 102 minutes
  • Release date: 
    6 Mar 2025

Black Bag

When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country. Stars: Michael FassbenderCate BlanchettPierce BrosnanNaomie Harris

Movie specifics

  • Release date: 
    13 Mar 2025

Disney's Snow White

“Disney’s Snow White” is a live-action musical reimagining of the classic 1937 film. The magical music adventure journeys back to the timeless story with beloved characters Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy. Stars: Rachel ZeglerGal Gadot

Movie specifics

  • Release date: 
    20 Mar 2025

Opéra de Paris: Carmen

This classic Paris Opera performance of Calixto Bieito’s contemporary staging kindles every passion.
The first words uttered by Carmen (Elīna Garanča) mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame”. With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José (Roberto Alagna). Fate will do the rest...
Carmen’s irrepressible freedom, coupled with a need to live ever more intensely on a knife-edge, is present in Calixto Bieito’s contemporary production as in no other. The luxury cast is conducted by Sir Mark Elder. 
Screening Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 March at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 26 March at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 177 minutes
  • Release date: 
    22 Mar 2025

NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who, Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under afalse identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress twoeligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
Max Webster (Life of Pi) directs this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, filmed live from the National Theatrein London.
Screening Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 March at 1pm
Adults: $25.00, Concessions: $23.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • Release date: 
    29 Mar 2025

Royal Ballet: Swan Lake

Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness. Bringing together Tchaikovsky’s sensational score with the incredible imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane, ‘Swan Lake’ on the big screen is an exceptional way to experience this ultimate ballet classic. Prince Siegfried (Matthew Ball) chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette (Yasmine Naghdi), he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night. Von Rothbart (Thomas Whitehead), arbiter of Odette's curse, tricks the Prince into declaring his love for the identical Odile and thus breaking his vow to Odette. Doomed to remain a swan forever, Odette has but one way to break the sorcerer's spell...
Screening Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 March at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 2 April at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00

Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 210 minutes
  • Release date: 
    29 Mar 2025

A Minecraft Movie

Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison, Henry, Natalie and Dawn —find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve. Stars: Jack BlackJason MomoaEmma Myers

Movie specifics

  • Release date: 
    3 Apr 2025

Dog Man

Dog Man, half dog and half man, he is sworn to protect and serve as he doggedly pursues the feline supervillain Petey the Cat. Stars: Isla FisherPete DavidsonRicky Gervais

Movie specifics

  • Release date: 
    3 Apr 2025

La Scala: Eugene Onegin

Teatro alla Scala presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece of unrequited love, drawn from Pushkin’s novel.
Acclaimed soprano Aida Garifullina stars as Tatyana, the naïve young girl who grows into a sophisticated beauty. Baritone Alexey Markov sings the title role of the nobleman who lives to regret his blasé rejection of Tatyana’s love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend Lensky (Dmitry Korchak).
The tender music is entrusted to the exciting Timur Zangiev, and staging is in the hands of prolific stage and film director Mario Martone, now in his tenth La Scala production.
Screening Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 April at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 16 April at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 200 minutes
  • Release date: 
    12 Apr 2025

The Correspondent

While covering the news desk in Cairo for a colleague over the Christmas holidays, Australian journalist Peter Greste is arrested and accused of terrorism. He has become a pawn in the middle of a deadly game full of corrupt officials and ancient rivalries. Now the subject of his own worldwide news story, with only his wits and unlikely allies keeping him alive, Greste’s very survival means staring down a brutal regime. Stars: Richard RoxburghJulian MarounRahel Romahn

Movie specifics

  • 119 minutes
  • Release date: 
    17 Apr 2025

NT Live: Dr. Strangelove

Seven-time BAFTA Award winner Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) plays four roles in the world premiere adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear attack, a surreal race takes place, seeing the Government and one eccentric scientist scramble to avert global destruction. This explosively funny satire is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep) and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley (The Upstart Crow).
Screening Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 April at 1pm
Adults: $25.00, Concessions: $23.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • Release date: 
    26 Apr 2025

Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

The greatest love story ever told – through ballet. An ancient family feud casts a long shadow over the town of Verona. In this hothouse of tension, brawls are quick to break out and both sides get caught in the crossfire. The Capulets and Montagues are sworn enemies. Yet it is love at first sight for Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet when they meet each other at the Capulet ball, into which Romeo has snuck. The two fall in love and they profess their devotion to each other at Juliet’s balcony. They secretly get married. The stakes are raised for the young couple when Romeo avenges the death of his friend Mercutio who has been killed by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. For this, Romeo is exiled from Verona. Meanwhile, Juliet’s parents are forcing her to marry another suitor. In order to be together, Romeo and Juliet must risk it all…
Screening Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 April at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 30 April at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00

Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 150 minutes
  • Release date: 
    26 Apr 2025

Royal Opera: Turandot

Puccini’s captivating opera of a cold-hearted princess and her mysterious suitor. Featuring the ever-popular ‘Nessun dorma’, this opera of love and revenge is brought to life in a dazzling production. The beautiful but icy Princess Turandot (Sondra Radvanovksy) will only marry a man who can correctly answer three riddles. Those who fail are brutally beheaded. But when an unknown prince arrives, the balance of power in Turandot’s court is forever shaken, as the mysterious stranger does what no other has been able to.
Screening Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 May at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 7 May at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00

Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 205 minutes
  • Release date: 
    3 May 2025

Teatro di San Carlo: Rusalka

Captured live from Naples’ splendid San Carlo Theatre – the world’s oldest continuously running public opera venue - where it opened the company’s theatrical season, acclaimed director Dmitri Tcherniakov stages a new production of Dvořák’s beautiful, supremely romantic opera about a water sprite Rusalka (here the stunning soprano Asmik Grigorian) who longs to find love.
Maestro Dan Ettinger conducts a terrific cast that also includes exciting young British tenor Adam Smith, Ekaterina Gubanova, Anita Rachvelishvili and Gábor Bretz.
Screening Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 May at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 21 May at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 210 minutes
  • Release date: 
    17 May 2025

Opera di Roma: Simon Boccanegra

Captured live at Opera di Roma’s season opening night, Richard Jones’ eagerly anticipated new production of Verdi’s searing and intensely emotional opera.
In 14th century Genoa, Boccanegra (baritone Luca Salsi) is a powerful man, but the secrets of his past haunt him: twenty-five years ago, his young lover died, and their daughter mysteriously vanished. Just as he thinks he might have found her, his enemies start to move against him.
Opera di Roma Music Director Michele Mariotti conducts the fabulous score.
Screening Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 May at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 28 May at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 180 minutes
  • Release date: 
    24 May 2025

Paris Opera Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty

In 1961, Rudolf Nureyev toured Paris with the Kirov, enthralling audiences as the Prince in The Sleeping Beauty. Thirty years later, he proposed a new choreography of what he considered to be “the ballet of ballets” for the Paris Opera Ballet. Retaining the spectacular enchantment of the ballet and the sparkling charm of Tchaikovsky’s music, Nureyev brought a new balance to Marius Petipa’s original choreography by giving more prominence to the male roles.
Returning to the Paris Opera stage after an absence of ten years, there is no doubt that Aurora and Désiré, the Lilac Fairy and the Blue Bird, not forgetting the terrible Carabosse, will fascinate new generations.
Screening Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 June at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 11 June at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

 

Movie specifics

  • 150 minutes
  • Release date: 
    7 Jun 2025

Royal Opera: Die Walküre

Gods and mortals battle in the second chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle. Conductor Antonio Pappano and director Barrie Kosky reunite to continue the mythical adventure that began with Das Rheingold in 2023. On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers – Sieglinde (Lise Davidson) and Siegmund (Stanislas de Barbeyrac) together, unleashing a love with the power to end worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle ensues between their ruler Wotan (Christopher Maltman) and his rebellious daughter, Brünnhilde (Elisabet Strid).
Screening Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 18 June at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00

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Movie specifics

  • 360 minutes
  • Release date: 
    14 Jun 2025

Royal Ballet: Ballet to Broadway

Four of The Royal Ballet's Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon’s most distinctive short works are brought to the Covent Garden stage, bringing together sensuous contemporary ballet with the energy of musical theatre. ‘Fool’s Paradise’ (2007), ‘The Two of Us’ (2020), ‘Us’ (2017), ‘An American in Paris’ (2005): four stories of tender devotion and blossoming romance, showcasing Wheeldon’s remarkable choreographic range.
Screening Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 June at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 2 July at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00

Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 180 minutes
  • Release date: 
    28 Jun 2025

Opéra de Paris: Madama Butterfly

Poor Cio-Cio-San! The 15-year-old geisha (here superb soprano Eleonora Buratto) who, having renounced her family and Japanese traditions for the love of an American naval officer (Stefan Pop), finds herself abandoned in favour of a Western wife. Puccini used this classic theme of a woman seduced and abandoned to create an opera with lush orchestration and burning lyricism.
For singular American director Robert Wilson, this Japanese tragedy of a woman as fragile as a butterfly’s wings proves the ideal environment in which to display his signature refined formalism. Far from the traditional fans and cherry branches, he uses stylised acting and a stripped-down space to allow the melodic lines to blossom in all their purity.  
Screening Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 July at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 23 July at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
Tickets on sale here

Movie specifics

  • 165 minutes
  • Release date: 
    19 Jul 2025