(Credit: Gran Teatre del Liceu Website)

The Gran Teatre del Liceu has announced a cast change for Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.”

The Barcelona company said, that tenor Ilya Selivanov will the role of Zinovi Ismailov replacing Daniel Kirsch, who has canceled his participation in the production for artistic reasons.

Selivanov is a Mariinsky Opera Academy of Young Singers, Prize-winner at the VI All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Competition (1st prize, Lipetsk, 2012), I and II International Young Opera Singers’ Competition Opera Without Borders (Krasnodar, 2014, 2015), International Competition in Kohtla-Järve (Estonia, 2009), Maxim Mikhailov International Opera Singers’ Competition (Kaluga, 2013), and Grant-recipient of the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation (2011-2012).

He is set to join a cast that includes Alexei Botnarciuc, Sara Jakubiak, Ángeles Blancas, Pavel Černoch, and Ladislav Elgr.

Àlex Ollé directs the production while Josep Pons conducts. “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” opens on Sept. 27 and runs through Oct. 7, 2024.