Proclaimed “Artist of the Year 2009” at Finland’s Savonlinna Opera Festival, Ms Gutiérrez begins the year 2010 re-creating her signature performance in the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Florida Grand Opera and makes her debut in this role at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. From the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires to the stages of Bogotá Colombia, Hartford, Ct., Mexico City and Savonlinna, Finland Ms Gutiérrez has won acclaim for her deep interpretation of this bel canto masterpiece. Ms Gutiérrez will also grace the stage as Miss Lucia this year at the Vancouver Opera and the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Finland.

February finds her in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a Gala concert with tenor Lawrence Brownlee and then to Zurich for performances of Rigoletto, before her New York solo recital debut with the Opera Orchestra of New York.

Springtime in Madrid welcomes Ms Gutiérrez in a concert-version of Bellini's I puritani at the Teatro Real in Madrid (with tenor Juan Diego Flórez)... a role which gained Ms Gutiérrez tumultuous ovations at the Seattle Opera in 2008 (under the baton of maestro Edoardo Müller) and which she will repeat shortly thereafter at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari.

The Summertime finds her in a Gala concert performance with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Donald Runnicles and repeating her great success in the role of Lucia at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

The Fall holds a special performance debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in her elegant conception of the role of Gilda in Rigoletto. She is a renowned interpreter of the role Gilda, which she has enacted in Hamburg, Hartford, Tel Aviv, Trieste and Rome (alongside Renato Bruson and Ramón Vargas), the Vancouver Opera and the Ravinia Festival.

Her concert performance debut at the Covent Garden took place in September of 2009 in the title role of Linda di Chamounix (recorded by Opera Rara, scheduled for release in February of 2011). In 2011 she will perform there the role of the Fée in Cendrillon... a role in which she triumphed at the Santa Fe opera in 2006. Of that performance Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle commented that Ms Gutiérrez “unleashed a glistening, almost maniacal torrent of exquisitely placed sound.".

Ms Gutiérrez began the year 2009 as the star of the third MIDEM Opera Night in Cannes. Theater debuts in 2009 included the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Ravinia Fesitval, the Vancouver Opera and the Greek National Opera. Concert performances included Campeche, Prague, Miami, Cannes, Paris, the Savonlinna Festival as well as a Coast-to-Coast US tour with tenor Andrea Bocelli.