Rácz was to sing in a production of Ariadne auf Naxos during the finals, to take place in the Hungarian city of Szeged on November 3-17.
Her part will be taken over by a soprano from the Baltic Opera.
Five opera productions will be in the finals in Szeged. The productions will feature up-and-coming talents whose voices were matched by their acting skills.
The Dicapo Opera Theatre (New York, USA) will perform Tobias Picker's Emmeline, directed by Róbert Alföldi. The Csokonai Theatre (Debrecen, Hungary) will show Last Day of a Condemned, by David Alagna, directed by Nadine Duffaut. The Baltic Opera (Gdansk, Poland) will show Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss. The Théâtre Bienne Soleure (Bienne, Switzerland) will show two one-act operas: L'Heure Espagnole, by Ravel, and Alexandre bis, by Bohuslav Martinu, both directed by Bertalan Bagó. The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre (Ostrava, Czech Republic) will present Life, by Marco Tutino, directed by Péter Telihay.
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