Netrebko hits a high note

Will it be a baritone, or a soprano?

Anna Netrebko says it is a high note of another kind: She is pregnant and getting married.

The 36-year-old soprano and her fiance, Uruguayan baritone Erwin Schrott, are expecting a child this fall, her management company said Monday.

“We are both very, very happy that soon there will be three of us,” she said.

It will be her first child. She and Schrott, 35, became engaged last year in New York. Schrott sang the title role in Los Angeles Opera’s “Don Giovanni” last fall. Netrebko has starred with the company in “Manon” and “Romeo and Juliet.”

Netrebko “will keep her engagements as long as her doctors permit it,” said her manager, Jeffrey Vanderveen.

She is scheduled to perform in Massenet’s “Manon,” which opens April 4 at the Vienna State Opera. Netrebko was to appear with tenor Rolando Villazon in Charles Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” at the Salzburg Festival, but pulled out because of the pregnancy, festival president Helga Rabl-Stadler said Monday.

Netrebko has also withdrawn from a Metropolitan Opera revival of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” that begins Oct. 3.