Yonghoon Lee to Sub in for Title Role at Verdi's DON CARLO, 4/16

Yonghoon Lee will sing the title role in this evening's performance of Verdi's Don Carlo, replacing Ricardo Tamura. As previously scheduled, Lee will sing the role in all remaining Met performances of the opera this season.

Lee made his Met debut as Don Carlo in 2010 and reprised the role on the Met's tour of Japan in 2011. In subsequent Met seasons, he has starred as Ismaele in Verdi's Nabucco and Don José in Bizet's Carmen, the latter both in 2012 and earlier this season as a last-minute replacement for an ailing colleague. Next season, the Korean tenor will sing his first Met performances of both Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore-opposite Anna Netrebko in her North American role debut as Leonora-and Turiddu in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.

Tonight's performance of Don Carlo, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, also features Armenian soprano Lianna Haroutounian in her Met debut as Elisabeth de Valois, Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Nadia Krasteva in her Met debut as Eboli, Luca Salsi in his role debut as Rodrigo, Ferruccio Furlanetto as Philip II, and James Morris as the Grand Inquisitor.

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