Andy Anderson has just been appointed Assistant Music Director of Lyric Opera of Kansas City (MO).

Natalie Mann & Barbara Landis will be performing Micaela & Carmen respectively in the Chamber Opera Chicago production of Carmen in March, 2008.

Hallie Neill will return this season to sing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the Mozart Festival Opera and Opera Tampa. She will also sing Hanna in The Merry Widow with Czech Opera Prague next season. With her husband, Metropolitan Opera baritone Theodore Lambrinos, she will appear in her original scripted operetta A Scandalous Affair about the secret love story of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in theatres throughout the U. S. (www.jeanetteandnelson.com).

Natalie Mann has been chosen to sing the leading role in Lehar's Spring for Chicago Folk Opera in October, 2007.

Bass Vladimir Matorin will sing his signature role of Boris (Godunov) in Barcelona in 2008.

David Troiano will participate in the International Festival of Spanish Song in Barcelona, Spain, during July 3 - 15 of 2007. In the fall of 2007, David will perform "Die Schone Mullerin" Song Cycle in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and give an organ recitals in Morelia, Mexico and Orchard Lake Schools in Michigan. In April of 2008, he will present a recital in Port Huron, Michigan.