PAULO SZOT NA BROADWAY

Leads Named for ‘South Pacific’
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By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Published: September 12, 2007
The Lincoln Center Theater production of “South Pacific” has announced its leads. In a surprise to no one, Kelli O’Hara will be playing the role of Nellie Forbush. But the role of Emile de Becque, played in 1949 by the opera star Ezio Pinza, is going to a Brazilian opera singer, Paulo Szot, who was seen at New York City Opera in a 2004 production of Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” and a 2006 production of Jonathan Miller’s update of Donizetti’s “Elixir of Love.” ...