You've gotta feel a bit sorry for Alice Coote

I just got the Met Opera's 2006-7 season guide. Excerpted without further comment:

the marvelous tenor Macello Giordani
exceptional baritone Dwayne Croft
the greatest Rossini tenor of our time, Juan Diego Flores
the great Strauss interpreter Deborah Voigt
the celebrated lyric soprano Lisa Milne
legendary tenor Ben Heppner
the commanding Violeta Urmana
tenor sensations Rolando Villazón and Marcello Giordani
the majestically-voiced Maria Guleghina and Dolora Zajick
the dynamic Salvatore Licitra
the sensational Renée Fleming
charismatic Dmitri Hvorostovsky
the dynamic Ramón Vargas
the young Russian star Ildar Abdrazakov
popular countertenor David Daniels
English mezzo-soprano Alice Coote
the radiant Dorothea Röschmann
the glorious Karita Mattila
the remarkable Anja Silja
the great tenor Johan Botha
international sensation Anna Netrebko
baritone greats Carlos Alvarez and Juan Pons
young tenor stars Piotr Beczala and Joseph Calleja
acclaimed baritone Thomas Hampson
the magnificent Angela Gheorghiu
the great Italian bass Ferrucio Furlanetto