Zanda Švēde, Nicolas Testé, Chong Wang, Nadine Sierra, Piotr Beczala and Brian Mulligan Photo

From: Photo Flash: First Look at Nadine Sierra, Nicolas Testé & More in SF Opera's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

San Francisco Opera today announced cast changes for the Company's new production of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, presented October 8�"28, 2015, and for Mozart's The Magic Flute, presented October 20�"November 20, at the War Memorial Opera House. German soprano Diana Damrau has withdrawn from the Lucia production, in order to remain on vocal rest for the next six weeks. American soprano Nadine Sierra�"who performed Lucia last spring at the Zurich Opera House to critical acclaim and, more recently, as the Countess in San Francisco Opera's The Marriage of Figaro�"will now sing the title role for all seven performances.