The Nov. 10 Met HD cast features Thomas Adès conducting the premiere of his The Tempest, with Simon Keenlyside as Prospero.
Merola/Adler alumnae Joyce DiDonato and Elza van den Heever sing the title role and Elizabeth I, respectively, in the Jan. 19 simulcast of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.
Look for the Dec. 8 telecast of Un Ballo In Maschera, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Alvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Stephanie Blythe; and the March 2 Parsifal, with Jonas Kaufmann, Katarina Dalayman, Peter Mattei, and René Pape.