The curtains rise in Bay Area movie houses at 9:55 a.m., and there will be rebroadcasts at 6:30 p.m. This production, a new staging updated from Scotland to a Rust Belt American town by Australian film and theater director Simon Stone, also features the celebrated bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Raimondo and will be conducted by Ricardo Frizza. Sierra, who also took the leading role here in 2015, stars as the doomed Lucia (famed throughout operadom for her blood-soaked “mad” scene) opposite tenor Javier Camarena as her heartthrob Edgardo and baritone Artur Rucínski as her ruffian of a brother Enrico.

Popcorn, with arias: Want to attend a live production from the New York Metropolitan Opera? You can do it, virtually, from your chosen movie seat in theaters all over the Bay Area this Saturday, as the nation’s preeminent opera company livestreams its current production of Donizetti’s tragic masterpiece “Lucia di Lammermoor,” starring the fabulous soprano Nadine Sierra, a Merola and Adler Fellow alum at San Francisco Opera who has already appeared many a time on our own stage here at War Memorial Opera House.

(Photo courtesy Zenith Richards/Metropolitan Opera) Soprano Nadine Sierra stars in the title role of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” in the New York Met’s current production, which is set in an American town in the Rust Belt. The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create.

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