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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for “The Queen of Spades.”

The company said that Brandon Jovanovich will sing the role of Hermann, replacing the originally announced Brian Jagde. The company said that due to the overlapping rehearsal and performance schedules for the production of Verdi’s “Aida,” Jagde was forced to cancel.

Jovanovich has sung the role of Hermann at the Salzburg Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. For his Salzburg Festival turn, OperaWire said, “American tenor Brandon Jovanovich, who sang his first Hermann in Salzburg, has grasped this fatalism and created a passionate portrait of a foreigner trapped in the obsessive love and gambling craze.”

Earlier this season Jovanovich sang the lead role in “Moby Dick” at the Metropolitan Opera.

For “The Queen of Spades,” he is set to join a cast that includes Sonya Yoncheva, Violeta Urmana, Igor Golavatenko, Alexey Markov, and Maria Barakova. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the production of Elijah Moshinsky.

“The Queen of Spades” opens on May 23 and runs through June 7, 2025.