Now Ms. Sunnegardh, 40, is preparing to appear at the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of Beethoven's "Fidelio" as a last minute substitute for an ailing Karita Mattila.
Nevertheless, for the hearing before the Ninth Circuit, the Department sent a very smart and capable, but lower level official, who was a last minute substitute for higher ranked officials, and who, as a result, was woefully unprepared.
Focus on what you can do before racing down to the store to buy a last minute substitute.
The God of the Hebrews demanded that Abraham sacrifice his beloved son Isaac on Mount Moriah (widely believed to be the location of the Temple Mount in modern-day Jerusalem) but then called it off at the last minute, ultimately substituting circumcision as a nonfatal re-enactment of ritualized bloodshed that founds and forever marks the Jewish people.
A surprising omission from the awards list was the rich-voiced soprano Jennifer Rowley, who impressed listeners at Caramoor last summer as a last-minute substitute in Donizetti's "Maria di Rohan".
Mr. Luisi has long been on standby for the ailing Mr. Levine and was elevated from principal guest conductor to principal conductor, the Met said last week in announcing his last-minute substitute role.
He was loaned to Colchester last September, recalled by Roberto Martinez in January, but made just one appearance for the Toffeemen, as a last-minute substitute at Southampton.
The New York Times reported last month that one of the book's sources, Joseph Fuoco, described as a last-minute substitute flight engineer on one of the two planes that escorted the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, was an imposter.
(A last-minute substitute sheik was found).
Mr. Hanick appeared as a last-minute substitute for another performer who was forced to cancel.
