Ripa plans to return to talk show Tuesday

Ripa plans to return to talk show Tuesday

LOS ANGELES

Kelly Ripa is returning to her daytime talk show, ending an absence that followed word her co-host, Michael Strahan, will join “Good Morning America.”

Ripa will be back Tuesday on “Live With Kelly and Michael,” she said in an email to the show’s staff that was obtained by The Associated Press.

“I wanted to thank you all for giving me the time to process this new information,” Ripa wrote. “Your kindness, support, and love has overwhelmed me. We are a family, and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday morning.”

Tuesday’s show will be the first time Ripa and Strahan are reunited on camera since last week’s announcement that Strahan will leave in September to work full time on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Tenor makes Met Opera debut on short notice

NEW YORK

Francesco Anile got to make his Metropolitan Opera debut in a T-shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. With 5 minutes notice.

The 54-year-old Italian tenor was in the green room during the last act of Saturday’s performance of Verdi’s “Otello,” which was being broadcast on radio throughout the world, when he was told by a stage director that Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko was sick and unable to sing the title role in the fourth act.

There was no time to get in costume for Otello’s entrance ahead of the final scene, so Anile put on a black cape and stood on the edge of stage right above the orchestra pit while Antonenko acted the role and mouthed the words.

Associated Press