Eva Kirchner sang Micaela in Carmen, Helena in Midsummer Nights Dream, Haydn's Creation conducted by Peter Schreier, Musetta in Boheme, Ilia in Clemenza di Tito, Nanetta in Falstaff, Pamina in Zauberflote, Susanna in Nozze, Marzelline in Fidelio, Echo in Ariadne, Servilia in Titus and Aennchen in Freischutz, all at the Dresden State Opera, Germany. Mimi in Boheme in Rostock.

Phillip Ens sings the Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, Claggart in Billy Budd in Houston and at Glyndebourne, Arkel in Pelleas for the Vienna State Opera, Tiresias in Oedipus Rex for the Cologne WDR Radio, Joerg in Stiffelio for the Metropoloitan Opera, Fafner in Siegfried at Covent Garden and the Deutsche Oper and The Verdi Requiem for the Winnipeg Symphony.

Ursula Hesse von den Steinen sang Orlovsky in Glyndebourne after singing it at the Vienna Staatsoper. Orlovsky, 3rd Lady in Flute and starred in The Seven Deadly Sins at the Paris Opera. Eboli in Don Carlo in Nurnberg. Beethoven's 9th conducted by Riccardo Chailly in Milan. Title roles in Carmen in Bonn, and Cenerentola and L'Italiana at the Dresden State Opera. Fricka in Rheingold in Karlsruhe, Elvira in Don Giovanni in Nuremberg, the gymnast in Lulu in Amsterdam, Clairon in Cappriccio in Brussels, Giulietta in Tales of Hoffman in Nantes, world premiere of Heliogabal at Gerard Mortier's Ruhrtriennale, Caligula in Cologne.

Christian Elsner sings Siegmund in Die Walkuere in Weimar. He sang Mendelssohn's Lobgesang with Riccardo Chailly at La Scala, Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall (cond. by M.Jansons) and in Salzburg (cond. by M.Honeck), Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in Stockholm (cond. by C.M.Giulini) and Rotterdam (cond. by R.Norrington), Mendelssohn’s Paulus in Vienna (cond. by F.Luisi) and Barcelona (cond. by J.Lopez-Coboz) and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Leipzig (cond. by H.Blomstedt) and Berlin (cond. by M.Janowski). He recorded Mahler’s Lied von der Erde, Beethovens Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony, Liszts Faust Symphony, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Schubert’s Winterreise and Schoene Muellerin, Schumann's Dichterliebe, Mahlers Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen and the titlerole in Mozart’s Idomeneo.

Allyson McHardy sings the title role in L'Italiana in Algieri in Lille, France. She sang Rosina in Barbiere at the San Francisco Opera after she sang Olga in Eugene Onegin there. She made her New York City Opera debut as Marquise Melibea in Viaggio a Reims in fall 2005. Dalilah in Samson and Dalilah at Opera Hamilton. Suzuki at Canadian Opera Company and Edmonton. Covered Rosina, Hansel, Suzuki and Bradamante Alcina at San Francsico Opera. Meg Page in Falstaff and Concepcion in L'Heure Espagnole with Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood, La Vida Breve with the Boston Symphony, Orlofsky with Merola. Zerlina and Hansel with Arizona Opera, Fenena in Nabucco with Vancouver Opera. Lola in Cavalleria in Edmonton. Malika in Lakme in Calgary.

Eugene Brancoveanu sang the role of Scapin in L'Ile de Merlin at the Spoleto Festival and will make his New York City Opera debut in fall 2007 as Pandolphe in Massenet's Cendrillon. He sings Escamillo in Carmen at the Walnut Creek Festival, covers Tomsky in Pique Dame in Tokyo, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and plays the Pilot in The Little Prince for the San Francisco Opera, conducted by Donald Runnicles . He won a Tony Award for his Marcello in Baz Luhrman's Boheme on Broadway. Opera News said "Eugene Brancoveanu, a convincingly robust Marcello, was the strongest of the four principals." He received rave reviews for his Tarqinius in Rape of Lucretia for San Francisco Opera's Merola Program. For the San Francisco Opera mainstage he sang Morales in Carmen, Marullo in Rigoletto Fiorello in Barbiere, the 1st Prisoner in Fidelio, and covered Tomsky in Pique Dame and Taddeo in L'Italiana in Algieri. With Michael Tilson Thomas he often sings and portrays Yiddish Theatre legend, Boris Thomashevsky with the San Francisco Symphony, and other fine orchestras and sang the lead role in Shostakovich's Moscow Chereomuski in Stuttgart in June, 2006.

Christa Mayer will sing at the Bayreuth Festival the roles of Erda and Waltraute in The Ring in summer 2008 conducted by Thieleman. She sang Leda in Liebe der Danae, Maddalena in Der Meistersinger, Fenena in Nabucco, Begbick in Mahagonny, Henrietta in I Puritani, Quickly in Falstaff, Suzuki in Butterfly and Baba in Rake's Progress at the Dresden State Opera. Cieca in La Gioconda in Kiel.

Lothar Odinius will sing Tamino in Zauberfloete for Glyndebourne's touring production. He sang the title role in La Clemenza di Tito and Don Ottavio in Giovanni in Potsdam and Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutte in Wiesbaden. He sings Händel's Israel in Egypt in Amsterdam conducted by Emanuelle Haïm. Numerous concerts worldwide with Helmut Rilling include Mendelsohn's Elijah and Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and Haydn's Creation. Haydns L´isola Disabitata conducted by Adam Fischer in Budapest. Recording of Schubert's Schiller Lieder, Volumes 3 and 4 on the Naxos label. Don Quixote de la Mancha at Berlin's Komische Oper.

Rayanne Dupuis just sang the title role in The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant in Basel. In the world premiere concert and recording of the opera in Dublin, London's newspaper, The Guardian, said "Rayanne Dupuis was magnificent in the title role. She sang a piece by Ginastera in the Musiktriennale in Cologne for the Westdeutschen Rundfunk, sang Lulu in Lulu and Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites at Metz, France and concerts with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire. She was a Met Auditions district winner for Toronto, and received a Canadian Council Grant. She sang Le Voix Humaine for L'Opera de Montpelier and Massy, Marguerite in Honnegger's Jean d'Arc au Bucher in Clermont-Ferrand, title role in the Canadian premiere of Jackie O at Banff, Canada and French premier at Metz, France. Giacinta in La Finta Semplice, Frau Fluth in Lustige Weiber, Die Soldaten and Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw in Nantes. Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra in Seattle. Cherubino at Austin Lyric. Tatyana in Onegin in Scotland, 1st Lady in Edmonton.

Maria Soulis will tour Europe as Mdme. de la Haltiere in Cendrillon. She sang in La Gazzetta at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad, Germany. She sang the title role in Carmen at the Longborough Opera Festival, Adalgisa in Norma, Mrs. Grose in Turn of the Screw and Antonia's mother in Hoffman in Nantes, France. Niklausse in Hoffman and Neris in Medea in Metz, France. She won the Liederkranz Competition in NYC, the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques Competition in Montreal and received a Chalmers Grant in Canada to underwrite study with Neil Semer in New York City, as well as Canada Council grants for further studies in Europe. Cherubino, Dorabella, Hansel, Orlofsky, Charlotte and the Composer in Regensburg, Germany. Rosina at Ireland's Wexford Festival. Dryade in Ariadne in Monaco in 2006.

Lucja Zarzycka sings Abigaille in Nabucco and Aida in Aida in Warsaw, and the title role in Tosca in Cracow, as well as in and Gera, Altenburg and Radebeul, Germany. She sang Leonora in Forza in Cottbus and Frankfurt an der Oder and Abigaille in Nabucco in Braunschweig, Weimar and Gera, Germany. Verdi Requiem in Hamburg and Zurich.

Ralf Simon will sing Tamino in Zauberflote, Cervantes in Das Spitzentuch der Konigin, Alfred in Fledermaus, and Candide in Candide at the Dresden Staatsoperette. He sang in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse In Patria in Frankfurt, Grimaldo in Rodelinda in Darmstadt, Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein in Nuremberg and Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore at Opera Faber in Portugal.

Meik Schwalm sang the Count in Nozze, Prospero in Der Sturm, Doristo in L'Arbore di Diana, Frederick in Lakme, Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis and Enesco's Oedipe in Bielefeld, Germany. Hel Helson in Paul Bunyan at Bregenz Festival, summer 2007. He sang the title role in the world premier of Chief Joseph, Angelotti in Tosca, Montano in Otello and Morales in Carmen at the Berlin Staatsoper and Seven Attempted Escapes From Silence at the Berlin Staatsoper Magazine.

Barbara Hannigan sang the Paris premiere of Dutilleux's Correspondances conducted by Kurt Masur as well as at the Salzburg Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic with Simon Rattle conducting. She sang it at the London Proms, in Helsinki with Esa Pekka Salonen, in Miami and with the Toronto Symphony, after which the Globe and Mail wrote "The TSO's luminous performance of this piece, with music director Peter Oundjian and the angelic, intelligent soprano Barbara Hannigan, may be the most important event of the orchestra's season." The National Post wrote: "Hannigan, who gave the Paris and Dutch premieres of the piece, was magnificent, singing the piece as if she's written both the text and music herself - and as if nothing coud be more natural to her, musically and technically, than such complex scores. The stillness and pure love with which she floated Van Gogh's exclamation "Ah" in his letter was a moment of pure transcendence." She sang Stravinski's Les Noces with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle, and Ligeti's Requiem with that orchestra as well. She played Saskia de Vries in Netherlands Opera's Writing To Vermeer at the New York's Lincoln Center, Brussels and London, and sang Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with orchestra's in Toronto, Amsterdam, Cologne, Vienna, Utrecht and Gutersloh, Germany and with the Berlin Philharmonic. Despina with Edmonton Opera. Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant at the English National Opera in 2005. Ligeti Requiem at the Salzburg Festival. Tour with the Schoenberg Ensemble to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Anne Truelove in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Steven Ebel will be conducted by James Levine as the tenor lead of Mahagonny at Tanglewood in the summer of '08. Currently a finalist in the Lotte Lenya Competition, Opera at Florham Competition and David Adam's Art Song Competition, he sang Tamino in Zauberfloete at the Cleveland Institute of Music in February '08. He won 3rd place from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, a three year Schuyler Foundation for Career Bridge Grants, 2nd Prize at the 2007 Concours Musical International de Montréal and was a semi-finalist at the Wigmore Hall Competition in London. He sang Peter Quint in Turn of the Screw at Opera Cleveland, the Postiglione in New York City Opera's Fanciulla del West and won 2nd Prize in both the 2005 Oratorio Society Competition in New York City and the Five Towns Competition. He won the Long Island Masterworks Paul Straney Scholarship Award Competition for 2006 and sang Fredric in Pirates of Penzance at Opera Delaware.

Holger Falk sang Haydn's The Four Seasons with Christopher Hogwood. He is singing Danilo in Merry Widow and Sharpless in Butterfly in Pforzheim, Germany and in Donizetti's Il Campanello in Limoges, France. He will sing in Kaiser von Atlantis in Furth, Germany. He sang the role of Moritz Stiefel in the world premiere of Bernoit Mernier's Fruehlings Erwachen at La Monnaie in Brussels and the title role in Monteverdi's Orfeo in Bangkok, Segovia, Spain and in Sarrebourg und Kloster Eberbach bei Frankfurt . He sang Eight Songs for a Mad King in Giessen and Jenseits der Schatten by Vladimir Tarnopolski in Bonn. At the Frankfurt Opera he sang the role of Death in Savitri by Gustav Holst and sang Jesus in the oratorio Golgatha by Frank Martin in Passau. Other engagemnts include Schattenspiele by Hans Gefors in Lubeck, Petrucci in Lucrezia Borgia in Gießen, the world premiere of Die Irre Oder Nächtlicher Fischfang by Jan Müller-Wieland, Tobias II in the world premiere of Kokain by Steffen Schleiermacher in Bonn, King Zephalus in Die drei Rätsel von Detlef Glanert, Figaro in Barbiere and Antonio in Viaggio a Reims at the Frankfurt Opera.

Carter Scott covers the Dyer's Wife in Die Frau Ohne Schatten at the Chicago Lyric Opera and sings Santuzza in Cavalleria At the San Diego Opera. She covered Lady Macbeth at the Washington Opera after her critical success in the same role at Opera Roanoke and The Immolation Scene in Knoxville. She sang Abigaille in Nabucco in Dortmund, Germany. Lady Macbeth, Aida, and Donna Anna in Syracuse and Tosca in Fort Worth.

Jean Stilwell sings the world premiere of Transit of Venus with the Manitoba Opera and her critically acclaimed cabaret Carmen Unzipped throughout Canada. She sang in Eric Idle's Not The Messiah with the Toronto Symphony and at the Caramoor Festival in New York.

Juanita Lascarro sings Violetta in Traviata and Corinna in Viaggio a Reims in Frankfurt.

Andreas Macco sang the Water Gnome in Rusalka at the Rome Opera. He'll sing his first Walkuere Wotan in Koblenz in 2009. He sang the Gymnast in Lulu in Athens and Don Fernando in Fidelio in Naples. He sang the title role in Don Giovanni, Sarastro, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, the title role in Handel's Saul and the four villains in Hoffman in Bonn. Pogner in Meistersinger in Munster. Crespel in Hoffman at La Scala. Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

Hanna Sturladottir sang the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos in Reyjkavic, Iceland. She sang in Seven Attepted Escapes From Silence at the Berlin Staatsoper Magazine, 1st Lady in Magdeburg and Kassel, Germany and Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw in Iceland.

Alexey Kosarev sang the title role in Tales of Hoffman in Flensburg, Germany. In 2008-9 he sings Alfredo, Werther, Pinkerton and Alexei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Oldenburg, Germany.

Luca Martin sings Don Jose in Carmen in Ruti and Le Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, Lucio Silla in Bielefeld, and the Verdi Requiem, the Messiah and the Four Seasons throughout Germany.

Elisa Doughty made her Parisian debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute with Olivier Holt at the Cirque National Alexis Gruss. She has performed Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne (Bastienne), Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne (Pauline), Cupidon in Orphée aux Enfers, and The Magic Flute (First Lady) with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France and Carmen (Frasquita) at the Stade de France with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. She won first prize in operetta in both the Concours International de Chant de Marmande and the Concours International d'Opérettes de Marseille, sang Adele in Die Fledermaus in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Offenbach’s Pomme d’Api, Monsieur Choufleuri at the Théâtre de Pau, a premiere and tour of the opera Jerusalem Follies by Edouard Lacamp in the Middle East, concerts in France and Germany with the Baroque ensemble Précipitations, and Orphée aux Enfers in Chateauroux. Planned for the Opera de Rennes is Omphale in Les Travaux d'Hercule for 2006.

Gerald Hupach sings Monostatos in The Magic Flute, Malcolm in Macbeth, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Herald in Don Carlo, the fourth Jew in Salome, Pang in Turandot, Jack in Mahagonny, Basilio in Nozze, a boy in Frau Ohne Schatten, Eisslinger in Meistersinger, an Edler in Lohengrin and the tenor solos in Haydn's Schoepfung at the Dresden State Opera.

Anne Sommerfeld was nominated for Opernwelt's Artistic Newcomer of 2006 Award. She sings Sieglinde in Die Walkuere, Fiordiligi in Cosi, Leonora in Trovatore Mimi in Boheme, Freia in Das Rheingold, Laura in Bettelstudent Donna Anna in Giovanni, Pamina and 1st Lady in Flute and Hannah in Merry Widow in Cottbus, Germany. She also sang Rosalinda in Giessen and the soprano leads in Il Burgomaestro Saardan and Donizetti's Zar Peter at the Allee Theatre in Hamburg.

Anna Ryberg was Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore for Opera North in England. She sang Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Susanna in Nozze, Contessa di Folleville in Viaggio a Reims, Jano in Jenufa, Oskar in Ballo in Maschera, Sophie in Werther and in Aggripina in Frankfurt, Germany.

Eric Rieger sings the title role in Rameau's Dardanus, the four character roles in Hoffman, Mottel in Fiddler and Jan in Der Bettelstudent in Trier, Germany.

Lucy Taylor will sing in Handel's Belshazzar with Rene Jacobs in Berlin, Aix and Innsbruck.

Diane Schoff sang Orlovsky in Fledermaus for the Merola Program. She won the district level of the Metropolitan Opera Competition two years in a row and was a national semi-finalist in 2003.

Guy Booth won the South East Queensland Aria and Concerto competition in Australia. He will be a soloist with the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra next year. He will be in the Developing Artist Programe at Opera Queensland in March 2008

Giles Davies recorded Schumann’s Dichterliebe at the Wigmore Hall for the BBC. He has appeared with conductors including Richard Hickox (A Sea Symphony/Dido and Aeneas) Philip Pickett (Monteverdi’s Vespers) Trevor Pinnock (Handel’s Apollo and Dafne); Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (Ballet Rambert) and London Mozart Players. His operatic roles have included Figaro in Barber of Seville, Dr Kolenaty in Janàcek’s Makropoulos Case and Schaunard in Boheme for Scottish Opera. He sang the Church Parables of Britten for Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg, and Pish Tush in Mikado and Strephon in Iolanthe for the Carl Rosa Opera. In 2004 he received critical acclaim for creating the title role in The Piano Tuner, for Music Theatre Wales. Engagements for 2005 include Papageno in Magic Flute in the West End of London, (Epoc) and Love's Labyrinth for Opera Restor'd at the Wigmore Hall. In 2006 Giles will appear as John Goss, in Anthony Britten’s new film on the life of English songwriter Peter Warlock.

Sybille Keller sings Gianetta in L'Elisir d'Amore in Meiningen, Germany and will be in the chorus of the Bayreuth Festival in 2008.

David Okerlund sang the title role in Don Giovanni for San Francisco Opera. The San Francisco Chronicle said "baritone David Okerlund, also rose to new heights on Saturday night, singing the painter Marcello with unprecedented power and tonal warmth" after his Boheme at the SFO. Also at SFO-Stanley in Streetcar Named Desire (at San Diego and Strasbourg, also), Sharpless and Peter in Hansel and Gretel. Marcello with Pittsburg Opera. Germont at Vancouver and Connecticut, Sharpless at Hawaii, Figaro in Nozze in Tulsa, Yeletsky in Pique Dame in Grand Rapids, Jokanaan in Elektra in Hawaii.

Pascale Schultze sang Servilia in Clemenza di Tito, Papagena and Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Dresden State Opera.

Ausrine Stundyte sang Nedda, Adina and Blanche in Carmelites and Ilia in Idomeneo in Cologne. For 2005- Micaela, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld and Woglinde and Gerhilde in Cologne's Ring Cycle. Violetta and Adina in Wernigerode, Tebaldo in Don Carlo in Leipzig, Michaela in Carmen in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lisa Tjalve won the First Renate Holm Operetta Prize and the Emmerich Kalman Operetta Prize at the International Operetta Competition at the Elblandfestspielen at Wittenberg, Germany. She sang in Pinnochio at Berlin's Komische Oper and performed the role of Calisto in Händels Giove in Argo at the Markgräfische Oper in Bayreuth. She's a semi-finalist in the Strasbourg Festival International Opera Competition

Christine Groeneveld sings Ludmila in The Bartered Bride at the Dortmund Opera. She sang the title role in Turandot for the Dorset Opera in England.

Andrea Rieche sings the mother in Hansel and Gretel at the Dortmund Opera.

Andrew Young sings Kuno in Der Freischutz, Bogomil in Bettelstudent and Lodovico in Otello in Radebeul, Germany.

Rachel Rose Farber was a grand finalist in the International Grand Concours de Chant.

Susan Miller covered the Widow and Valencienne in the Opera Comique's production of Merry Widow in Paris.

Jeffrey Black sang Danilo in the Welsh National Opera's Merry Widow.

Julianne Borg covered Micaela in Carmen at the New York City Opera. She also covered the title role in Patience and sang Ygraine in Ariane et Barbe Bleu there. Flaminia in Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna at the Opera de Nice, France.

Mike McGowan played Danilo in Di Capo Opera's Merry Widow.

Eike Riga sang Rosemarie in Herzogin von Chicago in Bonn, Madrigal Comedy touring Germany and Blume von Hawaii at the Berlin Stadtsoper.

Heiko Boerner sang the Duke, Rodolfo, Faust, Symon in Bettelstudent and Belmonte in Wurzburg, Germany.

Waltraud Mucher sings Begbick in Mahagonny in Dessau in 2006. She sang Flosshilde in Rheingold and the Hexe in Humperdinck's Konigskinder at Cottbus, Germany.

Shirley Kean sang Fortuna and Valetto in The Coronation of Poppea with Opera Theatre Company in Belfast, Galway, Derry and Dublin, Ireland.

Janna Baty sang Despina and Berta (Barbiere) with Boston Lyric Opera, Powder On Her Face at the Hamburg State Opera and the Mother in Amahl with the Tallahassee Symphony.

Elizabeth Honer will sing Queen of the Night in Zauberflote for Summer Opera Theatre Company in Washington, DC.

Paul Koelbloed tours the U.K. and France as Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore with Diva Opera.

Kirsten Borchard sings in Der Spiegel des Gruen Kaisers in Muenster, Germany.

Paul Kirby sang in Postcards From Morocco in Colmar. Peter Quint and Prologue in Turn of the Screw and Mozart Requiem in Metz, France.

Katryn Strocka sang Blondchen, Susanna, Anne (Nabucco) and Lauretta in Gera, Germany.

Mark Coles sang Sarastro for Opera North in Leeds, England. The Guardian wrote "Mark Coles has the magnificent, honeyed tones of an evangelical preacher".

Of Jim Ruff's performance in Scarlatti's Giuditta, the Chicago Sun Times said "Ruff's tenor, pleasing and secure across a wide range, made a splendid showpiece of 'Mi combatti', every ornament in place". Daniel in Play of Daniel at the Spoleto Festival, Mozart Requiem in Boston

Fides Krucker starred as The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth in Toronto.

Rebecca Hass sang Berta in Barbiere in Ottowa, Katisha in Mikado in Edmonton and Marcellina in Nozze di Figaro in Vancouver. Messiah and Verdi Requiem with the Hamilton Philharmonic.

Roberta Cunningham sang Saffi in Zigeunerbaron in Muenster, Rosalinda in Fledermaus in Luzerne, Landshut and Giessen, Nedda in Pagliacci at Osnabruck, Pamina in Zauberflote at Hildesheim, Germany and Mimi in Boheme in Cairo.

Susan Hellauer and Jacqueline Horner tour internationally with their a cappella female quartet, Anonymous 4. Their many recordings with Harmonia Mundi have been on the top of the classical charts and sold over 1 million copies.

Hilary Fisher sang Mrs. Peachum in The Beggars Opera with Central Festival Opera in London. Alto soloist in B Minor Mass and Petite Messe Sollenelle among many other oratorios.

Andrew Mayor sang in Midsummer's Night Dream at Covent Garden. He toured as Danilo in The Merry Widow, and with Opera Italiano di Milano as Sharpless. Covered Amonasro at the Scottish Opera. Soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with the Berlin Philharmonic at Salzburg's Easter Festival conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Karen Baumgartel sang Valencienne (Merry Widow), Oskar (Ballo), Despina, Laura (Bettelstudent) and Naiad (Ariadne) in Hildesheim, Germany.

Heidi Klann won a grant from Anne Burrows foundation for Young Musicians.

Sung Chung was a finalist in the Jeune Ambassador Competition in Montreal and sang in La Straniera in Toronto's Opera in Concert.

Antoine Godor sang the Sacristan in Tosca in Neustrelitz and Basilio in Barbiere in Weimar.

Tina Hackeloer was 3rd Lady, Michael Scheel was Tamino and Thomas Guenzler was Papageno in Dortmund's Zauberflote for children.

Alexander Nikolic was Apollo in Haydn's Philemon et Baucis at Berlin's Stadtsoper, and sang the tenor lead of Halevy's Der Blitz and Marcello in Leoncavallo's La Boheme in Hamburg.

Max Wagner sings Cecco in Haydn's Il Mondon della Luna in Munich.

Diane Schmid won the Gottlob-Frick Competition in Germany, and sang Lisetta in Haydn's Il Mondo Della Luna at the Wiesbaden Opera Studio.

Darynn Zimmer debuts at Carnegie Hall singing the soprano solos of Haydn's Theresienmesse and Mozart's Mass in C Minor.

Dagmar Hesse sang Madama Butterfly, Elsa in Lohengrin, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Fiordiligi in Cosi, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and the Marschallin in Rosenkavalier in Hagen, Germany.

Arnd Gothe sang Zaccaria in Nabucco, Don Alfonso in Cosi and Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha in Hagen, Germany.

Soja Smoljaninova sang Amalia in Ballo and Giorgetta in Tabarro at the Semper Oper (Dresden).

Susan Russell sang Susa's Transformations at the Cleveland Opera. Opera News said "Susan Russell, whose soprano is cutting and flexible, had a triumph in the taxing role of Sexton."