THE Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions will mark its 10th season with live broadcasts to more than 2,000 cinemas around the world, including the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven.

The Met: Live in HD season begins on October 3 with Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine of Il Trovatore.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Count di Luna in the first pairing of the two Russian superstars at the Met since 2002, with Yonghoon Lee as Manrico, the title character, Štefan Kocán as Ferrando, and Dolora Zajick in her signature role of the demented gypsy Azucena.

A new staging of Verdi’s masterpiece Otello, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and directed by Bartlett Sher, broadcasts live to the Torch on October 17. Aleksandrs Antonenko sings his first Met performances of the tormented Moor of Venice, with Sonya Yoncheva in her role debut as his wife, Desdemona, and ?eljko Lu?i? as Otello’s sinister rival, Iago. The staging also marks the Met debut of set designer Es Devlin, whose previous designs include the 2014 revival of Machinal on Broadway and numerous opera productions for Covent Garden, La Scala, and other leading companies.

James Levine conducts the first Met revival of Wagner’s Tannhäuser since 2004, seen in Otto Schenk’s 1977 production, on November 1. Johan Botha sings his first company performances of the demanding title role, in a cast that also includes Peter Mattei as Wolfram, his second Met Wagner role; Günther Groissböck as the Landgraf; and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Elisabeth and Michelle DeYoung as Venus, the human and divine rivals for Tannhäuser’s affection.

William Kentridge returns to the Met for his first new production since the company’s premiere of The Nose, which caused a sensation when it opened in 2010, with Lulu on November 21. The inventive visual artist will stage Berg’s shocking masterpiece about a sexually irresistible young woman whose wanton behaviour causes destruction for those who fall under her spell. James Levine conducts one of the operas with which he is most identified; he has led 30 Met performances of the work, including the company premiere in 1977.

Met Opera Live’s Il Travatore is broadcast to The Torch Theatre on Saturday, October 3 at 5.55pm, with Otello broadcast on Saturday, October 17 at 5.55pm, Tannhauser on Sunday, November 1 at 2pm and Lulu on Saturday, November 21 at 5.30pm. Tickets and more information are available on The Torch website www.torchtheatre.co.uk or from the box office on 01646 695267.