In Gloria we show the crème de la crème of theatre, opera, and live performances from the world’s most esteemed and exciting stages.
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Opera: A Masked Ball (Arena di Verona, 2014)
Sunday August 23
Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera brings fiery music, political intrigue and a fatal love triangle to Arena di Verona.
National Theatre Live: All My Sons (2026)
Thursday August 27 + Sunday August 30
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).
Opera: Madama Butterfly (Vienna Philharmonic, 1974)
Sunday September 6
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-directed version of the Puccini opera, with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World (2026)
Thursday September 10 + Sunday September 13
Nicola Coughlan joins Éanna Hardwicke and Siobhán McSweeney in the riveting play of youth and self-discovery, directed by Caitríona McLaughlin.
Opera: Die Fledermaus (Musik Theater an der Wien, 2025)
Sunday September 20
Johann Strauss II’s irrepressible comedy of flirtation and intrigue among poseurs, frenemies and round-the-clock party people.
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2026)
Thursday September 24 + Sunday September 27
Lesley Manville joins Aidan Turner in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, directed by Marianne Elliott.
DR Symfoniorkesteret & Esa-Pekka Salonen
Tuesday September 29 + Sunday October 4
Experience star conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on the big screen, who, together with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and French guest artists, performs a modern classic in the Concert Hall: Messiaen’s symphonic masterpiece Turangalîla.
Opera: Falstaff (Salzburg Festival, 2013)
Sunday October 4
Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
National Theatre Live: The Audience (2013)
Thursday October 8 + Sunday October 11
Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the much-anticipated return of Peter Morgan’s hit play, directed by Stephen Daldry.
Opera: Lohengrin (Bayreuther Festspiele, 2018)
Sunday October 18
A medieval epic with sword fights and witchcraft, this Wagnerian masterpiece pairs legends about the Holy Grail with songs that have become pop-culture.
Broadway Live: Fallen Angels (2026)
Thursday October 22 + Sunday October 25
Sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously potent, Fallen Angels, Noël Coward’s champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners, starring Golden Globe-winner Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara, will certainly both shock and delight.
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature
Thursday October 29 + Saturday October 31
Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) with Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature
Friday October 30 + Sunday November 1
Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
Opera: Iolanta (Wiener Staatsoper, 2025)
Sunday November 1
Peter Tchaikovsky’s last opera is an intimate, lyrical opera about knowing, truth and the healing power of love.
Opera: Don Carlo (Salzburg Festival, 2013)
Sunday November 15
A father and son stand on opposite sides of love – and politics. Everything is at stake when the curtain rises on Verdi’s turbulent Don Carlo.
GIANT – the Play
Thursday November 19 + Sunday November 22
GIANT, the 5-star critically acclaimed play starring John Lithgow (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Crown) as Roald Dahl, comes to the big screen. GIANT explores with dark humour the difference between considered opinion and dangerous rhetoric offering a complicated portrait of a fiendishly charismatic icon.
Opera: Tristan & Isolde (Semperoper Dresden, 2024)
Sunday November 29
In Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner gives unparalleled musical expression to an overwhelming longing for love.
Ballet: The Nutcracker (New York City Ballet, 2011)
Sunday December 13
Experience the wonder of New York City Ballet’s iconic holiday classic on the big screen.
Opera: Carmen (Arena di Verona, 2022)
Sunday December 27
Brazenly seductive, unrepentantly exotic, recklessly strong willed, the character of Carmen has enthralled the world’s imagination for more than 150 years.
Opera: La Gioconda (Arena di Verona, 2005)
Sunday January 10 2027
La Gioconda is a musical treasure trove, with its soaring melodies, dramatic confrontations, heart-rending arias, lush Italian orchestration and rousing choruses.
Opera: Fedora (Teatro Carlo Felice, 2015)
Sunday January 24 2027
Jealousy, murder, intrigue, and love. Fedora‘s music has all the lyricism and no-holds-barred passion that are characteristic of turn-of-the-century Italian opera.
Opera: Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Sunday February 7 2027
Infidelity, treachery and murder are the ingredients of the most famous diptych in Italian opera history: Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana.
Opera: Don Carlo (Teatro Regio di Parma, 2016)
Sunday February 21 2027
Don Carlo is one of Verdi’s most complex operas about power, love and political oppression in the Spanish court under Philip II.
Opera: Fidelio (Opernhaus Zürich, 2008)
Sunday March 3 2027
Beethoven’s only opera is an opera like no other and a blazing musical protest against oppression that signals Beethoven’s implicit belief that humanity will eventually triumph over injustice.
Opera: Cosi fan tutte (Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2021)
Sunday March 21 2027
Mischief and misunderstandings are everywhere in this comic game of love by Mozart that sees the cunning Don Alfonso try to prove that two fiancées are unfaithful.
Opera: La traviata (Teatro Real Madrid, 2006)
Sunday April 4 2027
La traviata by Verdi is a tragic tale about Parisian courtesan, Violetta, who attempts to leave the life she knows behind to try and finally find true love.
Opera: La bohème (Arena di Verona, 2024)
Sunday April 18 2027
Puccini’s La bohème is one of the most famous operas ever written, following the unforgettable story of two young, bohemian lovers in Paris.
Opera: Maria Stuarda (Salzburg Festival, 2025)
Sunday May 2 2027
The story of Maria Stuarda is a powerful drama about power and morality, identity and betrayal, personal desire and political obligation.
Opera: The Magic Flute (Wiener Staatsoper, 2025)
Sunday May 16 2027
Mozart’s last opera The Magic Flute is a fairy tale of darkness, light, and finding your way in the world.
Opera: Aida (Bregenz Festival, 2009)
Sunday May 30 2027
Love and duty collide as nations clash in Verdi’s sharply relevant opera of love and war set in Ancient Egypt.
