Metropolitan Opera Cast Change Advisory: TOSCA

Iulia Isaev will sing the title role in tonight's performance of Puccini's Tosca, replacing Jennifer Rowley, who is ill.

Romanian soprano Iulia Isaev makes her Met debut in tonight's performance of Tosca. Her performances include Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Vienna State Opera and Opéra du Rhin in Alsace; Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte at Dutch National Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin; and Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin at Greek National Opera. She has sung many roles with Bucharest National Opera including Alice in Verdi's Falstaff, Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and Desdemona in Verdi's Otello. This season she reprises Alice in Bucharest.

The cast for Tosca includes Joseph Calleja as Cavaradossi, Wolfgang Koch as Scarpia, and Philip Cokorinos as Sacristan. Carlo Rizzi conducts.

Performances of Tosca run through April 6, 2019.

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