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Two male leads drop out of Salzburg’s Lady Macbeth

June 22, 2017 by norman lebrecht

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The Italian Ferruccio Furlanetto has decided that Boris Ismailov in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is not for him. The Salzburg festival has called in a Bolshoi bass, Dmitry Ulyanov .

And the Russian tenor Maxim Aksenov has been replaced as Sergei in the Shostakovih opera by the American Brandon Jovanovich.

Nina Stemme sings the title role. Mariss Jansons conducts.

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