The season’s first flu victim is Berlin’s Susanna
mainFrom the Staatsoper under den Linden:
Anna Prohaska regrets to have to cancel tonight´s performance of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO due to an influenza infection. We wish her a good and speed recovery and thank Evelin Novak for stepping in as Susanna tonight.
Get those jabs.
In a first concept of the libretto, Da Ponte had Susanna in bed with the flu at the beginning of the 1st act while Figaro inattentively tried to hang the drapes, but Mozart feared that the other protagonists would catch it too so it was changed in the measuring scene.