BREAKING NEWS - Elina Garanca is pregnant and cancels the premieres of "Anna Bolena" at the Met and "Don Giovanni" at la Scala

The Latvian mezzo soprano Elina Garanca and her husband, the conductor Karel Mark Chichon, are expecting their first child, according to a press release. The due date is late October 2011.

For this reason, Miss Garanca has to cancel the premieres of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City and Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at La Scala of Milano, both of them starring Anna Netrebko.

Source: Die Presse

Elina Garanca at the Wiener Staatsoper stage door, Anna Bolena, Wiener Staatsoper, Wien 17. Apr 2011. Photo: Helmut Flatscher