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When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander.

Funny Girl brought global fame to Barbra Streisand 50 years ago, boasting some of the most iconic songs in film and theatre history, including People and Don’t Rain On My Parade. Half a century later, this ‘exhilarating embrace of a production’ (The Independent) comes to cinema screens after wowing critics and audiences alike in London’s West End. This iconic musical tells the story of Fanny Brice, whose vocal talents and comedic ability see her rise from Brooklyn music hall singer to Broadway star.

A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

In what should be a highlight of the new season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. Later in the season, a second star-studded cast takes over, with Sondra Radvanovsky and Dolora Zajick as the leading ladies.Tenors Aleksandrs Antonenko and Yonghoon Lee alternate as Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti and Plácido Domingo take the podium for the Met’s monumental production.

The International BANFF Mountain Film Festival, brought to audiences by Cape Union Mart, delivers action-packed, adrenaline-pumping short films to South Africa for the thirteenth year. Audiences will get the chance to explore and experience some of the world’s most epic adventure sports, from high mountain expeditions to skiing, mountain-biking, and even flying surfers! In proud partnership with leading outdoor brands K-Way, Black Diamond, Deuter, Buff and GoPro; this year’s World Tour features the best mountain films, showcasing amazing filmmaking talent from the world over to an audience that spans the globe.

The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I comes to cinemas in this unmissable event recorded live from London’s iconic Palladium.

“The Secret Survivor” is the eye witness account by 92 year old Veronica Phillips - Hungarian Jew, born 9 November 1926, Budapest. She lives in Johannesburg today. After nearly 70 years of silence Veronica tells her story of surviving the Holocaust to film director, Johnathan Andrews. She remembers Budapest as teenager, waiting in line to get a Swiss letter of protection - possible through the efforts of Carl Lutz - the Arrow Cross, the Nazis, the concentration camps where she was held, a death march, and finding her way back home to Budapest. The film includes war time archival footage and interviews with historians and diplomats.