Met loses its Aida

The Metropolitan Opera has been forced to replace Latonia Moore in the title tole of Verdi’s Aida after just two performances.

Moore, it says, ‘has withdrawn due to illness.’

Jumping in for the rest of the run, up to January 7, is Michelle Bradley.

Bradley (pictured), who’s from Versailles, Kentucky, is a former Lindemann Young Artist who has been singing Carmelites in San Francisco and is booked for Aida shortly in Fort Worth.

Zachary Woolfe’s NY Times review of Moore read: ‘Most worrying, despite some effusive high notes and a sympathetic presence, the soprano Latonia Moore sounded ragged in the title role, her voice weakening by the ends of phrases, separated by big gulps of breath. “O patria mia,” Aida’s great Act III aria, was crooned and disjointed.’