Teatro Cervantes Announces Cast Change for ‘La Favorita’

By Francisco Salazar

The Teatro Cervantes in Malaga has announced a cast change for its performance of Donizetti’s “La Favorita.”

The theater announced that due to a vocal infection, mezzosoprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera will not be able to perform the title role on March 8, 2020. As a result Laura Vila will take over the performance.

Villa is a rising Spanish mezzo who has performed at the Jiangsu Grand Theater, the Belgian Festival “Zomeropera,” Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real, and the Ibiza’s Opera Festival. This is season she is scheduled to perform at the Teatro Principal and Teatro Campoamor in productions of “I Puritani” and “Lucia di Lammermoor.”

Vila joins a cast that includes Ismael Jordi, Lucía Millán, Pavel Shmulevich, and Carlos Álvarez with Antonello Allemandi conducting.

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