Anita Hartig has dropped out of the last three Bohèmes of the year at the Vienna State Opera, including a December 22 livestream.

Irina Lungu, 39, will shiver on screen in Zeffirelli’s timeworn 1963 production. It’s her first Mimi in Vienna.

Marco Armiliato conducts.

The soprano has pulled out of her last two Toscas this month due to ‘a sudden illness’.

The Spanish soprano Saioa Hernández jumps in (and off) on December 19 and 22.

Hernández, 40, made her Scala debut last year at the season-opening Attila. She was already due to sing the January Toscas.

Netrebko needs to get well in time for the Met’s New Year’s Eve gala.

Sick notes are so much more charming in Italian: A causa di un’indisposizione Anna Netrebko è costretta a cancellare le rappresentazioni di Tosca del 19 e 22 dicembre. Il Teatro alla Scala ringrazia Saioa Hernández che sosterrà la parte di Floria Tosca nelle date indicate aggiungendole alle rappresentazioni già previste il 2, 5 and 8 gennaio.