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Jersey shirk

missing_carmenBarely a week before opening night, Denyce Graves has withdrawn from an Opera New Jersey production of Carmen. Kirstin Chávez will substitute. [Tim Smith]

Olga is out

Based on a photo by Larry MerkleAt the Met, Viktoria Vizin will sing the title role in Bizet’s Carmen tonight, replacing Olga Borodina, who is announced as “ill.”