Michael Fabiano to Make Met Opera Debut in Tonight's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

Michael Fabiano will make his Met role debut as Edgardo in this evening's performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, replacing Joseph Calleja, who is ill.

This will be Fabiano's fifth role at the Met and his second time stepping in to replace a colleague on short notice this season; in December, he sang his first company performances of Rodolfo in La Bohème to critical acclaim. The American tenor first came to prominence as a winner of the Met's 2007 National Council Auditions, documented in the film The Audition. He made his company debut in 2010 as Raffaele in Verdi's Stiffelio and he returned to sing Cassio in Verdi's Otello in 2012 and Alfred in a new production of Strauss's Die Fledermaus last season. He was the 2014 winner of the Met's Beverly Sills Artist Award.

Tonight's performance of Lucia di Lammermoor, conducted by Maurizio Benini, also stars Albina Shagimuratova in the title role, Luca Salsi as Enrico, and Oren Gradus as Raimondo.