AUDIENCES will once again be able to enjoy a season of live ballet on the big screen this autumn.

The Royal Ballet Live series brings stunning live ballet productions from London direct to the screen at The Torch Theatre in Milford Haven.

Kenneth MacMillan’s classic version of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, set to Prokofiev’s magnificent score, opens the 2015/16 Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season on September 22.

This Romeo and Juliet is rich in the swaggering colour of Verona street life, sword fights and celebrations, but MacMillan’s focus is always on the complex emotions of the young lovers – especially on Juliet as she journeys through the delirious happiness of first love to a shocked, adult perception of her fate.

There will be four short ballets in one evening on November 12, with a quadruple programme from The Royal Ballet.

Carlos Acosta focuses on the dramatic essentials of love, jealousy and revenge in his new production of Carmen. As well as choreographing the production, Acosta will dance the lead role. Liam Scarlett has used Lowell Liebermann’s thrilling Piano Concerto No.1 as the inspiration for his similarly audacious choreography in Viscera. Debussy’s evocative score is the inspiration for Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun, which depicts two ballet dancers as absorbed by their own reflections as they are attracted to each other. George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux uses a fragment of music composed for the 1877 production of Swan Lake for an eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique.

Christmas simply wouldn’t be Christmas without The Royal Ballet’s classic production of The Nutcracker, showing at The Torch on December 16.

A young girl’s enchanted present leads her on a wonderful adventure in this captivating ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s glittering score.

Loosely based on a story by ETA Hoffmann, it opens with the Christmas festivities of little Clara and her family and progresses through a sequence of dreams and enchantments that take Clara on her magical journey to the Land of Snow and the Kingdom of the Sweets. Peter Wright’s production will enchant, with its wondrously growing Christmas tree and a rousing battle between the villainous Mouse King and an army of toy soldiers.

All broadcasts are at 7.15pm. For more information and to book tickets, visit The Torch website or call the box office.

LISTINGS:

Romeo and Juliet - Prokofiev: Tuesday, September 22, 7.15pm, tickets £17, concessions £16.

Viscera | Carmen| Afternoon of a Faun | Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux: Thursday, November 12, 7.15pm, tickets £17, concessions £16.

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Wednesday, December 16, 7.15pm, tickets £17, concessions £16.