When one has reached the pinnacle, a Heldentenor at the top of one’s profession, what indeed is left but to become Angela Gheorghiu? Says the Met press office, at 5:40 on a Friday afternoon, “Frank van Aken will make his Met debut as Siegmund in Die Walküre at tomorrow’s matinee performance, replacing Jonas Kaufmann who is [“]ill[“].”  

A glimpse of Mr. van Aken (with his Mrs.) from Frankfurt’s 2012-2011 Walküre.