THURSDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2017 CAST AMENDMENT PAGLIACCI (Ruggero Leoncavallo) Wednesday 6 December 2017 at 12pm and Saturday 9 December 2017 at 7.30pm

Due to a family emergency, Italian tenor Fabio Sartori has had to withdraw from the role of Canio in Pagliacci on 6 December and on 9 December. The role will now be sung by American tenor Bryan Hymel, who makes his debut in the role on 2 December, and who also makes his role debut as Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana).

Bryan Hymel made his Royal Opera debut in 2010 as Don José (Carmen) and has since sung Prince (Rusalka), Aeneas (Les Troyens), the title role of Robert le diable, Henri (Les Vêpres siciliennes), Don José and Don Carlo for the Company. Earlier in the 2017/18 Season he returned to sing Henri for The Royal Opera. Recent engagements elsewhere include Don José, Alfredo Germont (La traviata) and Faust (La Damnation de Faust) for Paris Opéra, Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) for La Scala, Milan, Arnold (Guillaume Tell) and Rodolfo (La bohème) for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) for Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The rest of the cast remains the same with British baritone Simon Keenlyside as Tonio, Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio as Nedda, Polish baritone Andrzej Filończyk as Silvio and Portuguese tenor Luis Gomez as Beppe. Israeli conductor Daniel Oren conducts.

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