3 hr 20 | Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour, dance and drama in Andrei Serban’s classic staging.

3 hrs | After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy is stranded on a lifeboat with four animal survivors.

3 hrs | A new production of the much-loved Royal Ballet fairytale classic.

2 hr 30 – TBC | As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences

4 hrs | Director David McVicar brings out the revolutionary elements in Mozart’s great comic opera of intrigue, misunderstanding and forgiveness.

3 hrs | In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: William F. Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal

3 hr 25 | Magic and fairytale characters are brought to life through ballet in this well-known family favourite.

3 hrs 25 | A devastating curse rises from the ashes in Verdi’s monumental tale of superstition and rivalry.