La Cieca has just heard a whisper that the Met’s new Robert LePage Ring cycle for the Met (beginning in 2010-2011) is already in the midst of a major cast change: Christine Brewer looks likely to be the new Brünnhilde instead of the previously announced Deborah Voigt.

UPDATE: Now La Cieca has also heard another whisper, this one perhaps slightly louder than the first, that in fact Voigt will be the LePage Brünnhilde. Given that Ms. Brewer will sing one cycle of the Met’s Ring next season, it obviously makes some sense that Peter Gelb might invite her back in following seasons, perhaps to alternate with Ms. Voigt in what will likely be multiple cycles in the early ‘teens.

Or maybe La Cieca should start listening more to opera and less to whispering.