Bryan Hymel has withdrawn from upcoming performances as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto, due to personal reasons.
Francesco Demuro will sing the Duke in the March 6, 9, 15, and 20 performances; Matthew Polenzani will sing the performances on April 26, May 1, and 4; and Stephen Costello will sing the May 10 performance.This is Hymel's third high-profile cancelation in the last few months: Les Huguenots and Les Troyen in Paris were the first two.
He's scheduled to open the San Francisco Opera season in September, and...well...I hope he's okay.
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Your headline prompted me to look up the etymology of "duking". Apparently this is an unusual example of Cockney rhyming slang making it into American English, in this case via boxing. So: "duke", short for "Duke of York", rhymes with "fork", Cockney slang for "fingers", metonym for "fist".
Wow.
And now we have more cause for concern about Hymel.
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