Freddie de Tommaso has withdrawn from the First Night time of the Proms at London’s Royal Albert Corridor this night after testing optimistic for Covid-19.
The 28-year-old British-Italian tenor – and winner of this 12 months’s BBC Music Journal Newcomer Award – was because of carry out with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Refrain within the opening evening efficiency of Verdi’s Requiem, alongside fellow soloists, soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and bass-baritone Kihwan Sim.
He’ll now get replaced by Korean tenor David Junghoon Kim, who has stepped in at quick discover.
The efficiency, carried out by Sakari Oramo, opens the 2022 season of the BBC Proms, which is able to run for a full eight weeks following two years of scaled down programming throughout the pandemic.
