(Credit: Marty Sohl)

The Metropolitan Opera has announced the launch of “The Met: Live at Home,” a streaming platform that allows audiences to watch the Met’s acclaimed series of live simulcasts from any device in the comfort of their homes.

The company said that it is the latest effort by the company to reach as broad a public as possible. The program is being created for those who do not have access to a participating movie theater for the Met’s Live in HD cinema transmissions.

The service will use location services technology and geo-fencing and the streams will be available to opera-lovers and newcomers alike in the United States and Canada who do not live near movie theaters that carry the Met’s transmissions.

For countries that do not have participating cinemas, the live programs will be available nationwide on a pay per view basis.

In a statement General Manager Peter Gelb, “We wanted to make our live performances available to people who don’t have ready access to the movie theaters that carry the Met, whether you reside in the mountains of Montana or on assignment in Antarctica.”

The Live at Home season will begin on October 22 with “Medea” and continues with “La Traviata” (November 5), “The Hours” (December 10), “Fedora” (January 14), “Lohengrin” (March 18), “Falstaff” (April 1), “Der Rosenkavalier” (April 15), “Champion” (April 29), “Don Giovanni” (May 20), and “Die Zauberflöte” (June 3). All performances will be Saturday matinees transmitted live from the Met stage.