The Hyde is excited to host a new series of art focused films in the Museum auditorium!

The Met: Live in HD | X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Saturday, November 18, at 12:55 pm
Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space.
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Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection
Thursday, November 30, at 2 pm
This is the story of the most famous artistic rivalry of all time, the one between Borromini and Bernini, but also the story of Borromini’s rivalry with himself. (Student group matinee screening available.)
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The Met: Live in HD | The Magic Flute
Saturday, December 2, at 12:55 pm
The Met’s family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns, sung in English and running under two hours.
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The Met: Live in HD | Florencia en el Amazonas
Saturday, December 9, at 12:55 pm
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
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The Met: Live in HD | Nabucco
Saturday, January 6, at 12:55 pm
Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille.
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The Met: Live in HD | Carmen
Saturday, January 27, at 12:55 pm
Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries.
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Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait (Student Matinee)
Friday, February 9, at 10:30 am
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influential, popular and disputed artists of the last 30 years. This film will show the hidden mechanisms lying behind the person, the artist and the Koons brand.
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Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait
Thursday, February 15, at 6 pm
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influential, popular and disputed artists of the last 30 years. This film will show the hidden mechanisms lying behind the person, the artist and the Koons brand.
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The Met: Live in HD | La Forza del Destino
Saturday, March 9, at 11:55 am
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented—and thrilling—heroines.
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Hamlet (Student Matinee)
Thursday, March 7, at 10:30 am
Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
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Hamlet
Friday, March 15, at 1 pm
Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
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The Met: Live in HD | Romeo et Juliette
Saturday, March 23, at 12:55 pm
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores.
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The Met: Live in HD | La Rondine
Saturday, April 20, at 12:55 pm
Puccini’s bittersweet love story arrives in cinemas on April 20, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.
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King Lear
Friday, April 26, at 1 pm
Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play. Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them.
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King Lear (Student Matinee)
Friday, May 10, at 10:30 am
Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play. Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them.
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The Met: Live in HD | Madama Butterfly
Saturday, May 11, at 12:55 pm
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy.
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