UPDATED YET ONCE MORE (March 26 at 5:00 pm): Per the Met’s press office, “Massimo Giordano will sing the role of Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore on March 31 and April 4 matinee, replacing Rolando Villazón, who is suffering from laryngitis.”

UPDATED AGAIN (March 26 at 3:55 pm): Iréne Theorin will sing the first two matinees of the Met’s first Ring cycle this spring. The updated “Brünnhilde schedule” follows:

April 6 Die Walküre – Iréne Theorin (debut)
April 11 mat. Die Walküre – Iréne Theorin
April 18 mat. Siegfried – Iréne Theorin
April 25 mat. Götterdämmerung – Katarina Dalayman
April 28 Die Walküre – Katarina Dalayman
April 30 Siegfried – Linda Watson
May 2 Götterdämmerung – Katarina Dalayman
May 5 Die Walküre – Linda Watson
May 7 Siegfried – Linda Watson
May 9 Götterdämmerung – Linda Watson

UPDATE (March 26 at 2:15 pm): The Met has released an official announcement that “Christine Brewer has withdrawn from her scheduled performances as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen due to a knee injury that prevents her from performing the staging.”

La Cieca hears that Iréne Theorin is in New York and will rehearse Die Walküre tomorrow.

The Met’s Nemorino cover is Roman Shulackoff (not pictured).