Susanna Phillips

Susanna Phillips (Huntington) is an American singer who has sung leading lyric soprano roles at leading American and international opera houses.

Early life and education

Phillips was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Huntsville where she attended Randolph School. She received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School where she was a student of Cynthia Hoffmann.^[1] In 2002 and 2003 she attended the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory.^[2] After completing her master's degree in 2004, she became a member of the Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program for Singers.

In March 2005, she joined the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, now the Ryan Opera Center. During her tenure with the program in Chicago she sang Diana in a new Robert Carsen production of Iphigénie en Tauride opposite Susan Graham, and performed Juliette in Roméo et Juliette and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus.

Career

While at the Lyric Opera of Chicago's LOCAA program, she participated in Santa Fe Opera's 50th Anniversary Arias Gala Concert on August 12, 2006, and sang the role of Pamina in the final two performances of the 2006 season production of The Magic Flute. Following in the 2007 season she sang the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut on 15 March 2008 singing Musetta in La bohème and has returned to The Met during numerous seasons to sing this role, as well as Pamina (2009, 2010), Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (2012), Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (2013, 2014), Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann (2015), and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (2014, 2015, 2016). In 2010 she won the Met's Beverly Sills Award.^[3]^[4]

She has held leading operatic roles at numerous companies such as Lyric Opera of Chicago, Oper Frankfurt, Santa Fe Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Birmingham, Fort Worth Opera, Boston Baroque, Ravinia Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Verbier Festival, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, and Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan. Highly in demand by the world's most prestigious orchestras, Phillips has appeared with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Alan Gilbert, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Philadelphia Orchestra, Oratorio Society of New York, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Music of the Baroque, Chicago, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the Santa Fe Concert Association.

Phillips works in collaboration with other artists in recital and chamber music performances. Such performances have included those with Paul Neubauer and Anne-Marie Montgomery, at the Parlance Chamber Music Series with Warren Jones, the 2014 Chicago Collaborative Works Festival,^[5] the Emerson String Quartet in Thomasville, Georgia with Warren Jones and colleagues from the Metropolitan Opera, and at Twickenham Fest.^[6]

Repertoire

Opera

Carmen, Micaëla
Les pêcheurs de perles, Leila
Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena
Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford
The Turn of the Screw, Governess
L'Elisir d'Amore, Adina
Orfeo ed Euridice, Euridice
Roméo et Juliette, Juliette
Alcina, Alcina
Agrippina, Agrippina
Giulio Cesare, Cleopatra
Rodelinda, Rodelinda
Die lustige Witwe, Hanna
Manon, Manon
Thaïs, Thaïs
Così fan tutte, Fiordiligi
Don Giovanni, Donna Anna
Don Giovanni, Donna Elvira
Idomeneo, Ilia
La finta giardiniera, Sandrina
Le Nozze di Figaro, Countess
Die Zauberflöte, Pamina
Les contes d'Hoffmann, Antonia
Les contes d'Hoffmann, Stella
Dialogues des Carmélites, Blanche
A Streetcar Named Desire, Stella
La bohème, Musetta
L'Amour de loin, Clémence
Die Fledermaus, Rosalinde
La traviata, Violetta

Oratorio and symphonic

Bach

Cantatas (various)
Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts-Oratorium), BWV 248
Easter Oratorio (Oster-Oratorium), BWV 249
Magnificat, BWV 243
Masses (various)
St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion), BWV 245
St. Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244

Barber

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Beethoven

Egmont, Op. 84
Mass in C major, Op. 86
Missa Solemnis, Op. 123
Symphony No. 9, Op. 125

Britten

Les Illuminations, Op. 18
Spring Symphony, Op. 44
War Requiem, Op. 66

Brahms

Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Bruckner

Psalm 150, WAB 38
Te Deum in C major, WAB 45

Copland

Eight Songs of Emily Dickinson

Canteloube

Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne)

Dvořák

Requiem in B-flat minor, Op. 89, B. 165
Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Te Deum, Op. 103

Gounod

Christmas Oratorio
St. Cecilia Mass, CG 56

Grieg

Peer Gynt, Op. 2

Handel

Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Messiah, HWV 56

Haydn

Mass No. 10 in C, Paukenmesse
Mass No. 11 in D, Nelsonmesse
Mass No. 12 in B flat, Theresienmesse
Mass No. 14 in B flat, Harmoniemesse
The Creation
The Seasons

Mahler

Mendelssohn

Elijah, Op. 70
Symphony No. 2 Lobgesang, Op. 52

Rachmaninoff

The Bells, Op. 35

Schumann

Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Paradies und die Peri)

Strauss, Richard

Orchestral Songs
Four Last Songs, TrV 296

Szymanowski

Stabat Mater, Op. 53

Vivaldi

Gloria, RV 589
In furore justissime ire, RV 626
Laudate Pueri, RV 601

Recital and chamber music

Phillips collaborates with pianists and other instrumentalists for art song recitals and chamber music concerts with a variety of thematic and musical interests.

Discography

Wasting the Night, Naxos, 2010, CD
Paysages, Bridge, 2011, CD
Poul Ruders, Vol. 8, Bridge, 2012, CD
The Opera America Songbook, Opera America, 2012, CD
Colors of Feelings, Delos, 2012, CD
Brass Rail Blues: Music by Patricia Morehead, Navona Records, 2014, CD
An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope, GPR Records, 2014, CD
Dear Theo: 3 Song Cycles by Ben Moore, Delos, 2014, CD

Awards and recognition

Operalia International Opera Competition, First Place and the Audience Prize (2005)^[7]
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2005)^[3]
MacAllister Awards (2005)
George London Foundation Awards Competition (2005)
Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition
American Opera Society Competition
Musicians Club of Women Chicago
Sullivan Foundation
Beverly Sills Award (2010)^[3]^[4]
Space Camp Hall of Fame (2015)

References

^ Louise T. Guinther (December 2015). "Practical Perspective: Soprano Susanna Phillips, who sings Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Met this month, has a very well-ordered outlook on life". Opera News.
^ "Alumni Roster". musicacademy.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Metropolitan Opera Archives. Phillips, Susanna (Soprano)
^ ^a ^b Itzkoff, Dave (21 April 2010). "Alabama Soprano Wins Sills Award". New York Times.
^ Mandel, Elliott (16 September 2014). "Collaborative Works Festival 2014, part 1". Elliott Mandel Photography Blog.
^ Huebner, Michael (2 July 2013). "Alabama-born soprano Susanna Phillips making music in the mountains before return to Huntsville". Alabama Media Group.
^ OperaliaCompetition.org. 2005 Winners.

External links

[1] Louise T. Guinther (December 2015). "Practical Perspective: Soprano Susanna Phillips, who sings Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Met this month, has a very well-ordered outlook on life". Opera News.

[MAotW_alumni-2] "Alumni Roster". musicacademy.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2020.

[Met-3] Metropolitan Opera Archives. Phillips, Susanna (Soprano)

[Alabama_Soprano_Wins_Sills_Award-4] Itzkoff, Dave (21 April 2010). "Alabama Soprano Wins Sills Award". New York Times.

[5] Mandel, Elliott (16 September 2014). "Collaborative Works Festival 2014, part 1". Elliott Mandel Photography Blog.

[6] Huebner, Michael (2 July 2013). "Alabama-born soprano Susanna Phillips making music in the mountains before return to Huntsville". Alabama Media Group.

[7] OperaliaCompetition.org. 2005 Winners.

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