One of the most watched NT Live releases of all time. Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the much-anticipated return of the Olivier Award–winning hit production, that inspired Netflix’s The Crown.

The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost.

Peter Wright’s 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of The Royal Ballet repertory. Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, Giselle conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.

Shakespeare’s OTHELLO rages to life like never before in an explosive new production starring David Harewood OBE (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones OBE (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) and Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob). Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris OBE (War Horse, Dr Semmelweis, The Grinning Man) with music by PJ Harvey, this epic story of manipulation, jealousy and toxic masculinity explores the darker side of power, rage and desire.

Comedian James Acaster unleashes his infectious energy as he explores his love/hate relationship with stand-up - while welcoming a heckle or two. Filmed in Truro, Dublin and Northampton, we see how this experiment panned out in front of three very different audiences.

James Acaster is one of the UK's most exciting and original stand up comedians, with sold out UK tours and specials on Netflix (Repertoire series), he has become one of the most well known faces on the UK comedy scene. He is a bestselling author, actor (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) and a co-host of the hugely popular Off Menu Podcast.

Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic

journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the

cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...

Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) and Die Walküre (2025). Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars

as Siegfried’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s

treacherous Mime and Elisabet Strid’s radiant Brünnhilde. Antonio Pappano conducts, drawing out

the unspoken tensions and ethereal mysticism of Wagner’s dynamic score.

Frances Barber stars as Billie Trix - icon, radical, existentialist, and complete disaster - in this bold and hilarious one-woman odyssey through the 20th and 21st centuries.

From post-war Berlin to the New York art scene, from folk duos to disco comebacks, Billie Trix has done it all - often naked, usually high, and always on her own terms. Drawing on her warped memories, lost loves, and chaotic career, Billie delivers a savage, surreal monologue that collides memoir, stand-up and cabaret.

Blending monologue with original songs by the Pet Shop Boys, MUSIK is a genre-defying exploration of fame, failure, and fierce individuality - wrapped in sequins and spiked with satire.

As she says herself: "I am music. Ich bin Musik. Without me, there is nothing."

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.

Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House, People, Places & Things) directs a cast including Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin).

All My Sons is an Old Vic co-production with Headlong.

From one of the UK's most viral stand-up comedians, in his debut special, "Paul Smith: Pablo Live" is the show you've all been waiting for. Filmed live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin, it's packed full of Smith's signature, unflinching, laugh out loud comedy. Featuring a mix of his trademark audience roasting, razor-sharp wit and hilarious true stories of his everyday life, from spending money in the most irresponsible way possible, why boys are better than girls and raising kids without leading by example, this is the full, unfiltered Paul Smith experience, and you won't want to miss a minute of it.

Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it. Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including

Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic

adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who

realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–

winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance”

(The Telegraph).

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.