The Metropolitan Opera reports that Angela Gheorghiu has withdrawn from singing the lead in Carmen on April 28 and May 1 and she's issued the following statement:
“To make so important a debut as Carmen, I want to be as prepared dramatically as I am musically. Therefore, I will postpone my role debut until a later date when I can work intensely with the Richard Eyre production.”
American mezzo Kate Aldrich will pick up her slack and belt it out of the ballpark. Also, there's Jonas Kaufmann as Don José.