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Broadcasts directly from the National Theatre, Royal Opera House and other famous theatres around the world onto a big screen. Broadcasts may be of live performances or "Encore" screenings of previous famous productions recorded "as live". <hr> For some screenings from live venues, check ticket link for actual performance. These two short Italian operas are each regarded as the composers' masterpiece. Award-winning director Damiano Michieletto brings them together in a new staging, setting both in a poverty stricken village in 1980s southern Italy, where the Mafia has a hold. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts a cast that includes charismatic Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, exciting Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio and Aleksandrs Antonenko.