The Gran Teatre del Liceu has announced two cast replacements for the performance of Madama Butterfly on December 27.

The theater stated, “For the December 27 performance of Madama Butterfly, soprano Carolina López Moreno will take on the role of Cio-Cio-San, replacing Sonya Yoncheva, who is still recovering from a severe cold. Additionally, tenor Celso Albelo will sing the role of Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, stepping in for Matthew Polenzani, who has been advised to rest for medical reasons.”

Moreno has recently performed La Rondine with the London Symphony Orchestra and appeared at venues such as the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Club, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Jugendstil-Festhalle Landau, and Cambridge University in the UK. Her repertoire includes works by Offenbach, Verdi, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Mercadante, Poulenc, Puccini, and Nino Rota.

This season, Albelo is scheduled to perform Rigoletto at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and La tabernera del puerto at the Teatro de la Zarzuela.

Madama Butterfly is set to conclude its run on December 28, with Saioa Hernandez in the lead role.