The Met: Live in HD

The Met: Live in HD series will kick off its 2015-16 season at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. with “Il Trovatore,” Verdi’s four-act tragedy. Its notoriously complicated plot includes revenge, mistaken identity, rivalry between suitors, suicide, and execution, all pulled together by its “absolutely glorious” music, according to WQXR-FM radio’s “Opera in Brief.”

The production stars Anna Netrebko as Leonora, the heroine who sacrifices her life, Yonghoon Lee as Manrico, the ill-fated troubadour, Dmitri Hvorostovsky as his rival, and Dolora Zajick as the gypsy with the troubled past. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, $15 for students. All Met opera screenings will now have reserved seating.

Prior to the telecast, from 11:30 to 12:30, Victoria Bond, a composer and conductor, and Barbara Zinn Krieger, a librettist, will present a program on composing in the 21st century that will include a preview of Ms. Bond’s original opera about Clara Schumann, with scenes performed by Meredith Mecum and Benjamin Bloomfield, the two lead singers, as Clara and Robert Schumann. Tickets for the presentation, which will include a celebratory reception, are $50.

Montauk Library Group members are eligible for $15 tickets to Guild Hall’s Met: Live in HD programs through December. Members must sign up and pay at the library’s circula- tion desk no later than the Sunday prior to the opera. Tickets will be distributed at Guild Hall 30 minutes before each program.