Live screening of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Puccini's 'La Fanciulla del West', with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, part of the company's Live in HD series.
The Met Opera brings Puccini's La Fanciulla del West to The Dome Cinema on Tuesday 26 January 2027, as part of the Royal Ballet Opera's 2026-27 season. It's a live cinema broadcast from the Met stage in New York, so you're watching the performance as it happens rather than a recording. The screening starts at 18:00 and runs for 195 minutes.
On stage, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky makes her role debut as Minnie, the mine-owner's daughter who holds her own in a rough-and-tumble frontier town. She's opposite tenor SeokJong Baek as the dashing bandit and baritone Christopher Maltman as the lawman, with Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson conducting. It's a new staging by British director Richard Jones, and the Met's first new production of La Fanciulla in more than 30 years.
If you're not familiar with it, La Fanciulla del West is Puccini's drama of the American Wild West, and this production is part of the company's Live in HD series, which broadcasts opera live from the Met to cinemas worldwide. The Worthing screening falls within the Royal Ballet Opera's 2026-27 season at the Dome, so it's one of several opera broadcasts they'll be showing across the year.
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As for the venue, The Dome Cinema is an Edwardian building that first opened in April 1911 as The Kursaal, a multi-purpose entertainment hall that started out as a roller-skating rink. A small cinema opened upstairs in October 1911, showing silent movies daily, often accompanied on the piano by the building's owner, Carl Seebold. The cinema was transformed in 1921, and the opulent Screen 1 was born. It now has three screens: the 500-seat main auditorium, the more intimate Screen 2, and the new 41-seat Screen 3. The screening is on Tuesday 26 January 2027, starting at 18:00 and running for 195 minutes.
