John Rawnsley is singing Tonio in Pagliacci in the opera house in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Sacristan in Tosca at the Royal Opera House in London.

Julian Close will sing at Iford, Ramphis in Aida for Lyric Opera Productions in 2004, and will cover Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos for Welsh National Opera.

Lise Christensen is singing Carmen for Mid-Wales Opera

Bradley Daley is singing Don Jose for Opera Australia's touring company, OzOpera

Rebecca von Lipinski has just starred in English National Opera's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and she will sing Susanna in Figaro for Grange Park Opera

Joanne Boag has just started her studies at the National Opera Studio

Nuala Willis has just performed in Flight at Glyndebourne and is on tour with Carl Rosa in their Mikado

Douglas Bowen has just sung his first Macbeth for Scottish Opera

Anne-Marie Gibbons is singing in several English National Opera productions

James Cleverton has just finished his two years at the Studio of Zurich Opera and his first engagement in the UK is Onegin for Opera by definition

Mark Wilde has sung at the proms (Madwoman in Britten's Curlew River with Graham Vick)

John Lofthouse has sung Masetto for Grange Park

Sinead Pratschke has just sung Vespina for Bampton

Next season Matthew Beale will sing Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola for Glyndebourne on Tour and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni for Welsh National Opera.

Simon Wilding has just sung in La Sonnambula at Holland Park

Colin Judson has been singing at Glyndebourne (Remendado in Carmen), ENO (Jew in Salome) and Scottish Opera (Alfred in Die Fledermaus)