The Met quietly dropped the thermonuclear device a couple hours from curtain: it's poor Giuseppe Filianoti's revenge:
Giuseppe Filianoti will sing Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor tonight, replacing Rolando Villazón who is ill.
Mr. Villazón is still scheduled to sing Edgardo on February 7 matinee.
Anna Netrebko sings the role of Lucia, with Mariusz Kwiecien as Enrico, Ildar Abdrazakov as Raimondo, and Marco Armiliato conducting.
Mr. Villazón is still scheduled to sing Edgardo on February 7 matinee.
Anna Netrebko sings the role of Lucia, with Mariusz Kwiecien as Enrico, Ildar Abdrazakov as Raimondo, and Marco Armiliato conducting.
Filianoti, just the other day, had sent an early Valentine to la Scala in an interview with Italian newspaper la Repubblica, calling Scala GM Stéphane Lissner "a Frenchman who doesn't care about Italy; he cares about taking the money home, but this way you eventually damage a great Italian tradition".