“The Met: Live in HD,” the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, opens its 18th season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the The Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center on the campus of Fryeburg Academy. The first presentation of the season is Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann,” which stars acclaimed tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet, alongside sopranos Erin Morley and Pretty Yende and mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine.

The 2024–25 “Live in HD” season also features the Met premiere and live transmission of Jeanine Tesori’s new opera “Grounded,” starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo; new stagings of Strauss’s “Salome” by director Claus Guth, with a cast led by soprano Elza van den Heever and baritone Peter Mattei, and Verdi’s “Aida,” with soprano Angel Blue and tenor Piotr Beczała, directed by Michael Mayer; the first-ever Met Live in HD transmission of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” along with Puccini’s “Tosca,” both featuring soprano Lise Davidsen as she continues to explore the full range of Italian and German dramatic repertoire; Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with an all-star cast; and director Bartlett Sher’s beloved take on Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” with opera’s newest star, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina, returning to the Met after her hit run this season in the new production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts “Grounded,” “Aida,” and “Salome.”

“From its beginning, ‘The Met: Live in HD’ was created to connect the Met to a global audience,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s Maria Manetti Shrem general manager. “We’re glad to see audiences around the world beginning to return to cinemas in larger numbers since the end of the pandemic.”

Tickets are $30 for adults, $28 for seniors (65+), and $10 for students. Purchase tickets online at fryeburgacademy.org/pac, or call the box office at 207-544-9066. The LHE/PAC is located on the campus of Fryeburg Academy at 18 Bradley St., Fryeburg.