Fathom and The Metropolitan Opera's Emmy and Peabody award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions returns to movie theatres across the United States this fall. This season will feature nine live and nine encore presentations from October to May.

All live events take place on Saturday afternoons. In addition to the live events, Wednesday encore performances will be shown the third week after the respective live event. The full schedule is below.

Don’t miss the chance to experience the excitement of the Met, including interviews and behind-the-scenes features, all at your neighborhood movie theatre!

MET – Armida LIVE Saturday, May 1, 2010 The transmission of Rossini’s opera Armida will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT in select movie theatres. This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.” An encore presentation of this performance will be exhibited on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 6:30 PM in all time zones.

Tickets are now available at the theatres listed below.