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While the 2010 International Season is still a few months away, we thought it would be a fitting task this gray Friday afternoon to take a look at the “international” part of our season to see what the singers who will be joining us next year are currently up to. Yes, I am secretly hoping that someone is singing in Bora Bora and I’ll be sent to go do some research. Alas, this not the case… Anja Harteros , who will join us as Mimi in La boheme is currently in Munch between engagements. She just finished up Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro and will sing Elsa von Brabant in Lohengri n and Alice Ford in Falstaff next month. Joining Anja as her Rodolfo, Piotr Beczala just wrapped up some performances of A Masked Ball in Berlin and heads over to the Vienna State Opera later this month to sing the title role of Faust . Zeljko Lucic who makes his house debut in the title of Nabucco next year is finishing up the title role of Rigoletto in Madrid before heading over to Munich n...

Since Aria Serious has readers as far flung as Latvia, here's an update on where in the world some of our 2009 singers are currently performing: Soprano Sylvie Valayre ( Tosca ) will be in Leipzig in November and December for a run of Aidas. She'll also sing a few Turandots at the Staatsoper Berlin. Closer to home tenor Marcus Haddock ( Tosca ) will take on Don Jose in Los Angeles Opera's Carmen , opening later next month. Ace-of-bass Ferruccio Furlanetto ( Don Quixote ) is currently singing Zaccaria in Nabucco in Venice but you should save the money and come see him perform it here in 2010. After this he'll do a series of King Phillip II in Don Carlo at the Wiener Staatsoper as well as at La Scala. Mezzo Denyce Graves ( Don Quixote ) will be chewing up the stage as Carmen at Washington National Opera next month and then performs a series of recitals before heading over to us. Soprano L'ubica Vargicova ( Rigoletto ) sings Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann in...