Late Breaking News, New England Region

Please read our newsletter for summaries of past winners and finalists. This page will pick up late breaking news, as we learn it, going into the 2008-09 season.

Upcoming performances for Ross Benoliel: Marcello in La Boheme, Baritone Soloist in Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Bass Soloist in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.

Nicole Rodin, Alex Lawrence, and Corinne Winters, accompanied by John Moriarty performed in the Hammond Residential Concert Series on April 19, 2009. Photo

Claudia Huckle will be singing Mercedes in Carmen at Leipzig Oper this May. Following she'll sing Carmen at the Schlossoper Haldenstein in Switzerland during the summer. In mid August she'll become a member of the ensemble at Leipzig Oper. Roles for the 2009/10 season include: Zaida in Il Turco in Italia, Clarice in The Love for Three Oranges, Mercedes in Carmen, 3rd Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Flosshilde in Das Rheingold (concert performance) Flora in La Traviata and Singer in Manon Lescaut.

Michael Fabiano made a few debuts in the past seasons singing Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro alla Scala, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Opera Colorado, and Rodolfo in La Bohème with both the Philadelphia Orchestra and The Kansas City Lyric Opera. This summer, he'll be making his debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli reprising Pinkerton and then another debut at the English National Opera doing his first Duca in Rigoletto in September, and then, his MET debut in January, 2010, as Raffaele in Stiffelio.

This summer Steven Humes returns to St. Louis for Colline in La boheme. Role premiers this spring include Pistola (Falstaff), Lodovico (Otello), Kardinal Von Lothringen (Palestrina) and Gubetta (Lucrezia Borgia). His Mahagonny DVD made at Los Angeles Opera in 2006 has won two Grammys, both the best classical album and best opera recording 2009.

Claudia Huckle will be making her debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin as the Forester's Wife in The Cunning Little Vixen this December. She'll also be singing Handel's Messiah with the Ann Arbor Symphony and Irene in Handel's Tamerlano with 'Opera by Definition' in the UK.