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Andre Rieu's 2024 Christmas Concert: Gold and Silv

Celebrate the holiday season with André Rieu's dazzling Christmas Concert, "Gold and Silver," exclusively in cinemas! This magical event embodies the festive spirit of Christmas, bringing joy, warmth, and sparkle to the big screen. Get ready to be transported to the wondrous world of enchanting glamour that is André's winter wonderland! Under the sparkle of 150 chandeliers and 50 Venetian candelabras, feel your heart warm with the magical melody of all your favourite Christmas classics. André Rieu will be joined on stage by his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra, along with special guest artists and the young and talented Emma Kok. Don’t miss this chance to celebrate music, love, and Christmas sparkle, with André Rieu's new Christmas Concert in cinemas - " Gold and Silver ".

Celebrate the holiday season with André Rieu's dazzling Christmas Concert, "Gold and Silver," exclusively in cinemas! This magical event embodies the festive spirit of Christmas, bringing joy, warmth, and sparkle to the big screen. Get ready to be transported to the wondrous world of enchanting glamour that is André's winter wonderland! Under the sparkle of 150 chandeliers and 50 Venetian candelabras, feel your heart warm with the magical melody of all your favourite Christmas classics. André Rieu will be joined on stage by his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra, along with special guest artists and the young and talented Emma Kok. Don’t miss this chance to celebrate music, love, and Christmas sparkle, with André Rieu's new Christmas Concert in cinemas - " Gold and Silver ".
Andre Rieu's 2024 Christmas Concert: Gold and Silver
200 Minutes
Celebrate the holiday season with André Rieu's dazzling Christmas Concert, "Gold and Silver," exclusively in cinemas! This magical event embodies the festive spirit of Christmas, bringing joy, warmth, and sparkle to the big screen. Get ready to be transported to the wondrous world of enchanting glamour that is André's winter wonderland! Under the sparkle of 150 chandeliers and 50 Venetian candelabras, feel your heart warm with the magical melody of all your favourite Christmas classics. André Rieu will be joined on stage by his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra, along with special guest artists and the young and talented Emma Kok. Don’t miss this chance to celebrate music, love, and Christmas sparkle, with André Rieu's new Christmas Concert in cinemas - " Gold and Silver ".
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Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG

Barry Wong, who became famous along with the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 80s, is a well-known screenwriter in the film industry. Wong’s works are diverse in genre and subject matter. The Hong Kong Screenwriters Guild, which was founded to commemorate the sudden death of Barry Wong, hopes to hold this retrospective programme to revisit a number of Hong Kong films in the 80s and 90s, so that the audience can appreciate and explore the core skills of writing commercial films, and gain an in-depth understanding of how film screenwriters have mastered groundbreaking and integrated elements in their creations.

Barry Wong, who became famous along with the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 80s, is a well-known screenwriter in the film industry. Wong’s works are diverse in genre and subject matter. The Hong Kong Screenwriters Guild, which was founded to commemorate the sudden death of Barry Wong, hopes to hold this retrospective programme to revisit a number of Hong Kong films in the 80s and 90s, so that the audience can appreciate and explore the core skills of writing commercial films, and gain an in-depth understanding of how film screenwriters have mastered groundbreaking and integrated elements in their creations.
Hard Boiled (Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG)
128 Minutes
Inspector Yuen swears to sweep out the gangsters and sometimes breaks the rules in his furious drive to see justice done. An undercover cop tony has the same mission to fight an uphill war against the triads. he painstakingly plays notorious games in order to show faith to the underworld. Finally the two cops, both dedicate to the same ends but have different working styles, have to join forces in their ultimate battle against their maniac enemies....
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Alan & Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye (Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG)
107 Minutes
Alan and Eric are best friends. They share the dream of sailing off to some exotic land and conquer the world, Olive comes from Central America, and both Alan and Eric fall in love with her.

Eric lives a life of the nomads, but he always shows support for Alan. Now Alan becomes a successful singer, bit he gives up everything for Eric, who has got a terminal illness. Together with Olive, the trio starts a sailing journey to pursue their dreams…
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18 Times (Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG)
97 Minutes
Gu Gi predestines to be an unfortunate girl. When her husband becomes rich, he will die for her unfortunate destiny. She has four important men in her life and four different stories between them…
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The Dead and the Deadly (Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG)
95 Minutes
This is a ghost story about a young man who is into sorcery, his girlfriend, and the ghost who goes astray. The young man is honest Gee, a helper to Grand Uncle who is the town's high priest. They are now found in the ancestral shrine of the Mas working wonders. Gee is also being reprimanded by Grand Uncle for being rude to his fiancée, Ah Wun. The last of the Mas, the rich family in town, is back but Ma Cheong-lin is coming home dead. Accompanying the body is a woman who claims to be Ma's wife and very much pregnant.

But Gee knows his boyhood friend Ma couldn't bea husband because he was impotent. Gee therefore examines Ma's body. There is no wound. Gee concludes Ma has been poisoned.

He is wrong. Ma is not dead. He is using some magic to fake death in order to steal the family's funeral treasure. He is wrong. Ma is not dead. He is using some magic to fake death in order to steal the family's funeral treasure. When no terasure is discovered, except a promise that Ma's son would inherit a fortune, Ma is killed forthwith by his cohorts……
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The Met: Live in HD 2024/25 Season

The Met: Live in HD presents high-definition screenings of opera performances in the Metropolitan Opera House, one of the best opera houses in the world. Its dazzling productions are filmed by 14 different cameras in high-definition format and transmitted to cinemas across the world. The Metropolitan Opera pioneered live HD movie-theatre simulcasts in 2006. The acclaimed performances now reach over 2,000 venues in 70 countries and receive rave reviews. The impact of the live performance remains spectacular on screen. For The Met: Live in HD 2024-25 season, Emperor Cinemas brings the Hong Kong premieres of Puccini’s Tosca, one of Puccini’s most well-known masterpieces, this season featuring extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen as the iconic title role with David McVicar’s thrilling production. Another premiere is Verdi’s Aida, with this season's grand new production bringing audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with varied stage presentations and an assembly of singers at the height of their powers. More classic titles include Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss's Salome, and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Now available at Entertainment Building and Emperor Cinemas Plus+ (THE SOUTHSIDE).

The Met: Live in HD presents high-definition screenings of opera performances in the Metropolitan Opera House, one of the best opera houses in the world. Its dazzling productions are filmed by 14 different cameras in high-definition format and transmitted to cinemas across the world. The Metropolitan Opera pioneered live HD movie-theatre simulcasts in 2006. The acclaimed performances now reach over 2,000 venues in 70 countries and receive rave reviews. The impact of the live performance remains spectacular on screen. For The Met: Live in HD 2024-25 season, Emperor Cinemas brings the Hong Kong premieres of Puccini’s Tosca, one of Puccini’s most well-known masterpieces, this season featuring extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen as the iconic title role with David McVicar’s thrilling production. Another premiere is Verdi’s Aida, with this season's grand new production bringing audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with varied stage presentations and an assembly of singers at the height of their powers. More classic titles include Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss's Salome, and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Now available at Entertainment Building and Emperor Cinemas Plus+ (THE SOUTHSIDE).
Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Met 2025)
250 Minutes
Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.
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Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Met 2025)
228 Minutes
Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.
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Strauss's Salome (The Met 2025)
150 Minutes
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
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Beethoven's Fidelio (The Met 2025)
199 Minutes
Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran German bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, Chinese soprano Ying Fang and German tenor Magnus Dietrich as the young Marzelline and Jaquino, and Danish bass Stephen Milling as the principled Don Fernando. Susanna Mälkki conducts the Met’s striking production, which finds modern-day parallels in Beethoven’s stirring paean to freedom.
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Jeanine Tesori's Grounded (The Met 2025)
179 Minutes
Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, portrays Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain down death by remote control. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the Met premiere of Tesori’s kaleidoscopic score and a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who becomes Jess’s husband. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging, using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone’s predatory view from high above.
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Verdi's Aida (The Met 2025)
233 Minutes
Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for the premiere of Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris. Leading tenors Piotr Becza?a as the soldier Radamès, who completes the greatest love triangle in the repertory. The all-star cast also features baritones Quinn Kelsey as Amonasro, basses Dmitry Belosselskiy as Ramfis and Morris Robinson as the king.
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Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Met 2025)
261 Minutes
An ensemble of leading lights takes the stage for Offenbach’s fantastical final work, headlined by tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by soprano Erin Morley as the mechanical doll Olympia, soprano Pretty Yende as the plagued diva Antonia, and mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as the Venetian seductress Giulietta. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in an important company debut as Hoffmann’s friend Nicklausse.
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Puccini's Tosca (The Met 2025)
223 Minutes
Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.
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