PALACE OPERA AND BALLET
Experience the best of what's on stage in Europe in Bowral, with new performances screening direct from London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, Opéra National de Paris and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala!
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Opera di Roma: Simon Boccanegra
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this production has been withdrawn and will no longer be screening in cinemas. Our apologies for any inconvenience
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.
Language: French with English subtitles
Production Company: Opéra national de Paris, Pathé
Director – Rudolf Nureyev
Cast – Paris Opera Ballet
Screening Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 June at 1:00pm
Plus Wednesday 11 June at 11:00am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
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 (Natalya Romaniw) 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).
Language: German
Production Company: Royal Opera House, Trafalgar Releasing
Director – Barrie Kosky
Cast – Christopher Maltman, Elisabet Strid, Natalya Romaniw, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Soloman Howard, Marina Prudenskaya, Maida Hundeling, Katie Lowe, Lee Bisset, Claire Barnett-Jones, Catherine Carby, Alison Kettlewell, Monika-Evelin Liiv, Rhonda Brown
Screening Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June at 1:00pm
Plus Wednesday 18 June at 11:00am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
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.
Language: English
Production Company: Royal Opera House, Trafalgar Releasing
Director – Christopher Wheeldon
Cast – The Royal Ballet
Screening Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 June at 1:00pm
Plus Wednesday 2 July at 11:00am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
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.
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Production Company: Opéra national de Paris, Pathé
Director – Robert Wilson
Cast – Eleonora Buratto, Stefan Pop, Christopher Maltman, Aude Extrémo, Carlo Bosi, Vartan Gabrielian
Screening Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 July at 1:00pm
Plus Wednesday 23 July at 11:00am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
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.
Language: Czech with English subtitles
Production Company: Teatro di San Carlo, RAI
Director – Dmitri Tcherniakov
Cast – Asmik Grigorian, Adam Smith, Gabor Bretz, Anita Rachvelishvili, Ekaterina Gubanova, Peter Hoare
Screening Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 August at 1pm
Plus Wednesday 13 August at 11am
Adults: $27.00, Concessions: $20.00
