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The esteemed baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who canceled all his performances this summer to receive treatment for a brain tumor, plans to return to the stage this month for three performances of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” at the Metropolitan Opera, the company said Wednesday.

Mr. Hvorostovsky’s website said that his limited return was following “a positive round of ongoing treatments.” He plans to sing the role of di Luna in “Il Trovatore” on Sept. 25, Sept. 29 and Oct. 3, but to withdraw from his last three planned performances in October to return to London “for continued treatment,” the Met said in a statement. He will be replaced in the final three performances by Vitaliy Bilyy, a Ukrainian baritone.

The “Trovatore” promises to be a star-filled one. In addition to Mr. Hvorostovsky, it will feature the soprano Anna Netrebko, singing the role of Leonora for the first time at the Met. Ms. Netrebko and several colleagues donned T-shirts in support of Mr. Hvorostovsky earlier this summer at a concert in Moscow.