Siemens Festival Nights - public opera screening in Newham

Big screen opera comes to Royal Victoria Dock. In celebration of the first anniversary of its opening this September, the Crystal is proud to host Siemens Festival Nights, an outdoor opera festival taking place on the dockside between 30th August and 1st September. Presenting brand new opera productions from the world renowned Salzburg Festival.

Audiences will have the opportunity to see some of the most popular operatic masterpieces from Giuseppe Verdi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Falstaff, La Traviata, Don Carlo and The Magic Flute, shown on a large screen at the Crystal.

The Siemens Festival Nights will be a unique opera experience for everyone. Marking the anniversary of the opening of the Crystal, a Sustainable Cities Initiative by Siemens, which houses the world’s largest exhibition dedicated to the future of cities, which attracted more than 85,000 since it opened last September. The uniquely shaped, glass-clad structure is one of the most sustainable buildings in the world.

The festival will begin in the evening of Friday, 30 August, with the first showing of the Salzburg Festival beginning at 7pm.

Highlights at a glance:
Friday, August 30
- Evening screening (7 p.m. / Falstaff)
Saturday, August 31
- Public picnic with La Traviata as background opera (11 a.m. – 3 p.m.)
- Evening screening (4 p.m. / Don Carlo)

Sunday, September 1
- Matinee screening for kids (11 a.m. / The Magic Flute)

Special attractions for families will be offered during the morning events on Saturday and Sunday. These include bean bag throwing into an opera singer’s mouth, creating opera masks and a photo opportunity for kids with a life-sized opera scene cut out.For more information on the tickets and programme, please visit the official website