Right now my focus is on Hanna in the production of "The Merry Widow" in Modesto, CA with Townsend Opera Players. I am really excited to begin rehearsals on Saturday! I have the great privilege to work with some wonderful artists that I have already sung with in the last year. When I played Mimi in West Bay Opera's "La Boheme", Ani Maldjian played Musetta . She will play Valencienne in "The Merry Widow". In Townsend Opera Players' Opera Gala this fall, I sang the duet from La Boheme with the powerful tenor Vincent Chambers. He will play Count Danilovitch. It will prove to be a very playful and buoyant production and I look forward to seeing the CA folks there! www.townsednoperaplayers.com 

I am excited to have such an incredibly varied season. There is not one project that is even close to another that I am doing. So far this season I have interpreted Puccini's heroine Mimi, the playful comprimario role of Giannetta in "L'Elisir d'Amore", sung operatic excerpts alongside some of the SFO Adler Fellows in concert and have done performances for and helped in the musical education ofevery child in Berkeley, CA elementary schools with members of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. What a 2009 I tell you, and with joyful operetta "The Merry Widow" to kick off 2010, it will be another amazing year!

More to come on the other projects that I am also researching, learning and preparing for the new year!

Cheers!