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 Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program for Singers.

In March 2005, she joined Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at 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 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

  • CarmenMicaëla (Bizet)
  • Les Pecheurs de PerlesLeila (Bizet)
  • Midsummer Night's DreamHelena (Britten)
  • Peter GrimesEllen Orford (Britten)
  • Turn of the ScrewGoverness (Britten)
  • L'Elisir d'AmoreAdina (Donizetti)
  • Orfeo ed EuridiceEuridice (Gluck)
  • Roméo et JulietteJuliette (Gounod)
  • AlcinaAlcina (Handel)
  • AgrippinaAgrippina (Handel)
  • Giulio CesareCleopatra (Handel)
  • RodelindaRodelinda (Handel)
  • Die lustige WitweHanna (Lehar)
  • ManonManon (Massenet)
  • ThaïsThaïs (Massenet)
  • Così fan tutteFiordiligi (Mozart)
  • Don GiovanniDonna Anna (Mozart)
  • Don GiovanniDonna Elvira (Mozart)
  • IdomeneoIlia (Mozart)
  • La finta giardinieraSandrina (Mozart)
  • Le Nozze di FigaroCountess (Mozart)
  • Die ZauberflötePamina (Mozart)
  • Les contes d'HoffmannAntonia (Offenbach)
  • Les contes d'HoffmannStella (Offenbach)
  • Dialogues des carmélitesBlanche (Poulenc)
  • A Streetcar Named DesireStella (Previn)
  • La bohèmeMusetta (Puccini)
  • L'amour de loinClémence (Saariaho)
  • Die FledermausRosalinde (Strauss)
  • La traviataVioletta (Verdi)

Oratorio/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, 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)

Dvorák
      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
      Das Klagende Lied
      Symphony No. 2
      Symphony No. 4
      Symphony No. 8

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

Messiaen
      Poèmes pour Mi

Mozart
      Concert Arias (Various)
      Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
      Mass in C, K. 257, "Credo"
      Mass in C, K. 317, "Coronation"
      Mass in c, K. 427, "The Great Mass"
      Requiem, K. 626

Orff
      Carmina Burana

Pergolesi
      Stabat Mater, P. 77

Poulenc
      Gloria, FP 177
      Stabat Mater, FP 148

Rachmaninoff
      The Bells, Op. 35

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

Strauss, R.
      Orchestral Songs
      Four Last Songs, TrV 296

Szymanowski
      Stabat Mater, Op. 53

Vivaldi
      Gloria, RV 589
      In furore justissime ire, RV626
      Laudate Pueri, RV 601

Recital/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

Personal life

Phillips currently resides in New York City with her husband, New York lawyer David Huntington, and their children. She is sister to Macon Phillips. Her parents are Dr. Macon and Barbara Phillips.

References

  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.
  2. "Alumni Roster". musicacademy.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  3. Metropolitan Opera Archives. Phillips, Susanna (Soprano)
  4. Itzkoff, Dave (21 April 2010). "Alabama Soprano Wins Sills Award". New York Times.
  5. Mandel, Elliott. "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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