CALLICOON, NY — Continuing the 20th-anniversary season of “The Met: Live in HD,” the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010 performance of Bizet’s “Carmen” returns to select U.S. cinemas. Director Richard Eyre sets Bizet’s popular masterpiece in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War, with mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča in the title role, opposite tenor Roberto Alagna as Don José. Soprano Barbara Frittoli sings the role of Micaëla, with baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Escamillo. It will be screened at the Callicoon Theater, 30 Upper Main St., on Wednesday, November 18 at 2 p.m.

It is conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, now the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director; the production marks the first opera Maestro Nézet-Séguin conducted at the Met. This transmission remains the bestselling title in the series’s 20-year history

Alongside Eyre, the production’s creative team also includes set and costume designer Rob Howell, lighting designer Peter Mumford and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. Gary Halvorson directed the Live in HD presentation for cinemas, which was originally transmitted live in 2010. 

“Carmen” will be screened at other theaters in the U.S. at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 14.

Tickets for “Carmen” are available online and at participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change). For more information, visit www.fathomentertainment.com/series/the-met-live-in-hd or www.metopera.org.