Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change Advisory For LA BOHEME 3/20
By: Gabrielle Sierra Mar. 19, 2010
Angela Gheorghiu will sing the role of Mimì in La Bohème on Saturday, March 20 at 1 p.m., replacing Anna Netrebko who is ill.
Gheorghiu is currently at the Met rehearsing the title role in La Traviata which opens March 29, and has graciously agreed to step in as Mimì on short notice. She made her Met debut as Mimì in 1993. The Romanian soprano was heard last season at the Met as Magda in Puccini's La Rondine and as Adina in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore. In the Met's 2010-11 season, she will sing Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.Marco Armiliato conducts La Bohème, with Piotr Beczala, Ruth Ann Swenson, George Petean, Massimo Cavaletti, Oren Gradus, and Paul Plishka also in the cast. The production is by Franco Zeffirelli.Regular Cast:
Anna Netrebko stars in the most popular opera in the repertory. Piotr Beczala, who signaled his arrival as a top lyric tenor in last season's Lucia di Lammermoor, sings his first Met Rodolfo in Franco Zeffirelli's legendary production. Gerald Finley is Marcello, opposite Nicole Cabell and Ruth Ann Swenson alternating as Musetta.
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