3 pm • Peter Jay Sharp Theatre $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

Every year, on December 7th, La Scala officially inaugurates its Opera Season with an opening night regarded as one of European society’s most important cultural events.  This year, since the birth of Teatro alla Scala in 1778, audiences in cinemas will be able to experience Georges Bizet’s Carmen.

3 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia $11; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per film, (not per screening), for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Avery is a typical Brooklyn teen living in an atypical, United Nations-style melting pot. Her adoptive parents are white Jewish lesbians, her younger brother is Korean, her older brother is mixed-race, and she is black. Though her household is loving, she can't quite quell her curiosity about her biological African-American roots. The decision to contact her birth mother sparks a complicated exploration of race and identity.

4:45 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia $11; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per film (not per screening), for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois.  In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle.

7 pm and 8:45 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia All Tickets: $12 (not valid for Thalia Film Pass holders)

On March 16th, 2009, Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock’s most unconventional frontmen, took the stage at the majestic Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to perform a very special orchestral interpretation of his critically acclaimed debut solo album Elect the Dead.

8 pm • Peter Jay Sharp Theatre $21; Members $19; Five or more: $18, Members $16

Rinaldo Alessandrini conducts this new production of Monteverdi's Baroque masterwork, screening in high definition from Teatro alla Scala, in a coproduction with Opéra National de Paris. It is staged and designed by Robert Wilson, and stars Georg Nigl in the title role.