这些天我在休斯敦Audition角色，刚好我老师（Catherine Cook) 也来Houston Grand Opera演出两部歌剧，Charles Gounod: Faust (Jan. 20, 23, 26, 28m; Feb. 3, 2007 Evenings, 7:30 pm, Sunday Matinee, 2:00 pm )和Gioacchino Rossini: La Cenerentola （Jan. 27, 30; Feb. 4m, 7, 9, 11m, 2007 Evenings, 7:30 pm, Sunday Matinee, 2:00 pm）。有兴趣的朋友可以到这儿http://www.houstongrandopera.org/  搜查信息，也可以写QQH给我. I would suggest if you choose one, to pick La Cenerentola, because it's a new production, and it's SO incredible!!!

                                                       
                                                 Catherine Cook, mezzo-soprano
                                                  Tisbe, Rossini’s La Cenerentola
                                                   Dame Marthe, Gounod's Faust
  
American mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook has excelled in a wide range of roles with leading companies throughout the United States. The Cincinnati Post wrote that she "more than once recalled the great mezzo Marilyn Horne: her luxurious voice showed remarkable flexibility." Her exciting characterizations garner acclaim as well. A frequent presence at the War Memorial Opera House since her 1991 San Francisco Opera debut, Ms. Cook’s roles with the company include Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Emilia in Otello, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Lapák in The Cunning Little Vixen, Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes, Naina in Ruslan and Lyudmila, Second Norn in Götterdammerung, and Jade Boucher in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. After making her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in Kát’a Kabanová, she returned in the 2002-03 season for performances of Marthe in Faust,a role which she has also sung with Los Angeles Opera and Baltimore Opera.
                                                  
                           
                              
                                     
                                  她将在Rossini’s La Cenerentola这部歌剧里扮演Tisbe
 
     
                               
                                     在歌剧Faust （by Gounod) 扮演 Dame Marthe
 
这几天有她陪伴排练，或看她排练，一起讨论或揣摩角色，跟大家开开玩笑，刚来时的寂寞被充实取代！她是一位好老师，好朋友，更是一位今日美国的Excellent歌剧演员！！！If you have chance to watch it , wish you enjoy these bravo productions !!!