Dipson Theatres presents our special event schedule. Your source for live broadcast ballet and opera events.

Special Event Programming

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  The Met: Live in HD - Dead Man Walking

  
  

  American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, has its highly anticipated Met premiere, in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on S...

  10/21/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  10/21/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  10/21/2023, 10/25/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Birds - 60th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is an unforgettable masterpiece that is considered one of the most terrifying films from the Master of Suspense. When beautiful, blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) trav...

  10/22/2023, 10/23/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  10/22/2023, 10/23/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  10/22/2023, 10/23/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  Spirited Away

  
  

  Spirited Away is an Oscar winning Japanese animated film about a ten year old girl who wanders away from her parents along a path that leads to a world ruled by strange and unusual monster-like animal...

  10/29/2023, 10/30/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  Scarface - 40th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of...

  11/12/2023, 11/15/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  11/12/2023, 11/15/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  11/12/2023, 11/15/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  All-Star Salute To Lee Greenwood

  
  

  An All-Star Salute to Lee Greenwood is a multi-artist concert celebrating the 40-year career of the Grammy, ACM, and CMA award winner. This one-night-only musical extravaganza highlights Greenwood’s...

  11/12/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  11/12/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  11/12/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

  
  

  Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a pote...

  11/18/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  11/18/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  11/18/2023, 11/29/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - The Magic Flute

  
  

  The Met made history in December 2006 when it presented its first Live in HD transmission to cinemas worldwide: the abridged English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor’s whimsi...

  12/2/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - Florencia en el Amazonas

  
  

  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...

  12/9/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  12/9/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  12/9/2023, 12/13/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  A Christmas Story - 40th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  It's the final days before Christmas in early 1940s Cleveland, and 9-year-old Ralphie wants one thing from Santa more than anything else: a Red Ryder Carbine Action Air Rifle. As he trudges through th...

  12/10/2023, 12/13/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  12/10/2023, 12/13/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  12/10/2023, 12/13/2023 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - Nabucco

  
  

  Ancient Babylon comes to life in this classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze stars as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska, reprising her t...

  1/6/2024 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  1/6/2024 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  1/6/2024, 1/10/2024 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met Live in HD: Carmen

  
  

  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...

  1/27/2024 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  1/27/2024 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  1/27/2024, 1/31/2024 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - La Forza del Destino

  
  

  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...

  3/9/2024 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  3/9/2024 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  3/9/2024, 3/13/2024 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - Romeo et Juliette

  
  

  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, wit...

  3/23/2024 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  3/23/2024 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  3/23/2024, 3/27/2024 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - La Rondine

  
  

  Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns to cinemas, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her...

  4/20/2024 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  4/20/2024 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  4/20/2024, 4/24/2024 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD - Madama Butterfly

  
  

  Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American n...

  5/11/2024 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  5/11/2024 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

  5/11/2024, 5/15/2024 The Capitol Theatre BUY TICKETS