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.

At Opera Theatre St. Louis: Ed Parks sang the Count in The Marriage of Figaro and Chris Magiera sang Onegin. Next summer, Chris will be returning to OTSL in Adams' Death of Klinghoffer and will be making his Santa Fe debut as Valentin in Faust. Corrine Winters has a MET contract to cover one of the Rhinemaidens in Das Rheingold this fall. Also at the MET, Ed Parks will be singing Schaunard in La boheme this fall.

In August Ross Benoliel will sing Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte for Lyrique en Mer, France. He'll also perform the baritone Solo in Faure's Requiem. In October he travels to Hong Kong to sing Schaunard in La Bohème for Opera Hong Kong.

Leslie Ann Bradley sang a Beethoven Missa Solemnis with the Winnipeg Symphony replacing an illustrious Canadian soprano at the last minute. She just finished singing Tales of Hoffmann (roles of Antonia and Giulietta) in Quebec City at the Palais Montcalm. Upcoming engagements include the Victoria Symphony (British Columbia), the Calgary Philharmonic, a CBC radio broadcast of a recital in Toronto on August 4th, a Mahler 4th Symphony in July with the National Youth Orchestra, and a series of concerts in June with the Aldeburgh Connection in Toronto.

Yeghishe Manucharyan sang Argirio in Rossini’s Tancredi for Opera Boston, October, 2009. He sings Eustazio in Rossini’s Armida for the Metropolitan Opera, April/May 2010 and again February/March 2011 also for the Met.

The top prize of $8,500 in the advanced division of the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition went to soprano Corinne Winters, also winner of the audience favorite award.

April, 2010, Wendy Bryn Harmer was awarded a $10,000 Richrd Tucker Career Grant (a grant given to singers who are already pursing careers and recognizing their talent and established artistry).

Nadine Sierra, has won an Encouragement Award in the 2009 George London Foundation Award Competition on March 20, 2010. In April, 2010, Nadine was awarded a $5,000 Sara Tucker Study Grant (a grant given to singers displaying enormous promise at the beginning of their professional careers).

Janice Hall will be singing "Angels in America", at the Barbican Theater in London on March 26, 2010.

Claudia Huckle's 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.

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.