The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its upcoming performances of “The Magic Flute”

The company announced that Jeni Houser will sing the Queen of the Night in the Jan. 2 performance of Mozart work and Kathryn Lewek will sing the role Jan. 4. Both sopranos will replace So Young Park, who was originally scheduled.

Houser will make her Metropolitan Opera debut in the performance. The soprano has been seen at the Madison Opera, Kentucky Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Glimmerglass Festival. This season she makes debuts at the Los Angeles Opera, Dallas Opera, and New Orleans Opera.

Lewek is one of the best known Queen of the Nights in the world. She has performed the role at the Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bregenzer Festspiele, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Wiener Straatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival Castell de Peralada, Opera Leipzig, Opera de Toulon, English National Opera, Nashville Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Welsh National Opera, The Royal Danish Opera.

Performances open on Dec. 15, 2019 and run through Jan. 4, 2020. Lothar Koenings conducts the run, which is set to also star David Portillo, Soloman Howard, Joshua Hopkins, Will Liverman, and Joélle Harvey, among others.

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