Even if preggerified Anna Netrebko had to pull out of her commitment for Salzburg's Roméo Et Juliette, the show goes on as planned with the heavily-hyped Nino Machaidze (Public Enemy's words of wisdom have seldom sounded more appropriate) stepping in to replace La Trebka, Rolando goes ahead as poor Roméo.
As we can see in the photo above, during rehersals he got himself involved in some kinkly role play operatic stuff, pretending that bewby Nino (funnily enough, a dude's name in Italian) is faraway Anna.
The duly sold-out production opens Saturday.