Ingeborg Gillebo to Step in for Isabel Leonard in Tonight's LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Met

Norwegian mezzo-soprano Ingeborg Gillebo will make her Met debut singing the role of Cherubino in this evening's performance of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, replacing Isabel Leonard, who is ill.

Gillebo made her debut at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo as Cherubino in 2010. Her other roles there include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Costanza in Haydn's rarely staged L'Isola Disabitata, Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She has also sung at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, as well as at the Peer Gynt Festival and the Kirsten Flagstad Festival in Norway.

This evening's Le Nozze di Figaro in the new production by Richard Eyre is conducted by James Levine and also stars Amanda Majeski as the Countess, Marlis Petersen as Susanna, Peter Mattei as Count Almaviva, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Figaro.