The Russian baritone has pulled out of his upcoming Dublin date ‘due to a change in the schedule for his cancer treatments.’

The hall website says: ‘Please note that the upcoming concert by baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky with pianist Ivari Ilja scheduled for Saturday, 29th April 2017 at the National Concert Hall has been cancelled.’

Hvorostovsky is still going ahead with his April 25 Toronto concert, where he will be partnered by Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov.

We reported earlier this week that Martha Argerich is replacing the Italian pianist at Aix.

Apparently, he has suffered a nasty fall and will be out of action for at least a month.

Nadine Sierra, 28, tonight won the 2017 Richard Tucker Award, which carries a $50,000 cash prize and buckets of prestige.

She has already won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Marilyn Horne Competition. She is presently singing Lucia di Lammemoor in Venice.

photo: Merri Cyr

Manfred Jung died in Essen on April 14 at the age of 76.

Hired by Hervert von Karajan for the 1975 Salzburg Easter Festival, he sang Siegfried in Götterdämmerung in Bayreuth’s centennial Ring, and went on to appear on many world stages.

We’re hearing that Alexander Markovic has resigned from Opera North.

He was appointed in February last year and started work, very promisingly this season.

Here’s what the company is saying:

Richard Mantle, General Director of Opera North, has announced that he has today accepted the resignation of Aleksandar Markovic as the Company’s Music Director. Mr Markovic will formally leave Opera North at the end of his first year in July 2017.

Mr Markovic is currently on extended leave and it has been mutually agreed that he will not return to the Company for the remainder of the season.