Cast change : Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" (on the 21st of July 2019)
Due to personal reasons, Simon O'NEILL has withdrawn from singing the role of Calaf in SUMMER FESTIVAL OPERA 2019-20 Japan ↔ Tokyo ↔ World "Turandot" on the 21st of July 2019.
The role will be sung by David POMEROY.
Canadian tenor David Pomeroy is enjoying a career that has placed him in the spotlight on some of the world's most important stages. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut portraying the title role in Les contes d'Hoffmann. In the 2018/19 season, the tenor will make debuts at the New Orleans Opera and Theatro Municipal de São Paulo as Calaf in Turandot and with Opéra de Limoges as Paul in Die tote Stadt. He will also sing his first Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos with Oper Stuttgart and appear in Vancouver as the title role in Faust.
Pomeroy began the 2017/18 season with his debut in the title role of Tannhäuser at the Cologne Opera, later returning to the Manitoba Opera as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.
He then also appeared as the title role in a concert version of Peter Grimes with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Engagements from the 2016/17 season included Calaf in Turandot with the Edmonton Opera and Calgary Opera, Florestan in Fidelio with the Cologne Opera, Verdi's Requiem with the Vancouver Symphony and Janáček's Glagolithic Mass with the Warsaw Philharmonic. He will make his debut appearance at the New National Theatre, Tokyo.
Please note that tickets will not be refunded.
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