On October 6, the 2018-2019 season of The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series begins with Verdi’s Aida, with an encore performance on October 10. Anna Netrebko sings Aida for the first time at the Met with Anita Rachvelishvili as her rival Amneris.

Attending an opera at the cinema is certainly a different experience than seeing a live performance at an opera house, as I describe in some detail here. But if you’ve never tried opera and wonder whether it might be to your liking, or if you would love to see a Met performance but aren’t going to be anywhere near New York, the cinema offers an accessible and relatively low-priced venue.

You can find theaters showing the performance in your area are at Fathom Events.