Having persuaded Placido Domingo to withdraw from the Games’ opening, Italy’s Anna Pirozzi and Uruguay’s Erwin Schrott have been lined up as subs.
The launch event, titled Kabuki x Opera, will take place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on April 18.
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Domingo was not pushed, but decided himself to withdraw because of the complexity of the project
Um…he was “persuaded to withdraw”, and allowed that perhaps the complexity of the project was the reason (e.g. no losing face, which is very important in Japan).
Erwin Schrott is hardly a “sub”. I’d rather hear him than Domingo any day.