Susanna Phillips

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Susanna Phillips (Huntington) is an American opera singer who has sung leading lyric soprano roles at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, the Metropolitan Opera as well as internationally.

Early Life and Education

Phillips was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Huntsville where she attended Randolph School. At Randolph, she also began studying voice with Ginger Beazley at Ars Nova School of the Arts. She received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School where she was a student of Cynthia Hoffmann.[1] After completing her master's degree in 2004, she became a member of Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program for Singers, where she covered the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni during the 2004 summer season.

Career

Phillips was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions in March 2005,[2] and won both First Prize in the women's division and the People's Choice Prize at Plácido Domingo's Operalia International Opera Competition (Madrid, 2005).[3] In March 2005, she joined Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

She participated in Santa Fe's 50th Anniversary Arias Gala Concert on 12 August 2006 and sang the role of Pamina in the final two performances of the 2006 season production of The Magic Flute. For Santa Fe's 2007 season, she sang the role of Fiordiligi in Cosi 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 .[2][4]

Over the last decade 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 Teatro 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 under Alan Gilbert, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Mexico National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Oratorio Society of New York, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Music of the Baroque, Dallas Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Santa Fe Concert Association.

In 2010, Phillips co-founded Twickenham Fest, a week-long chamber music festival that takes place in her hometown of Huntsville, Alabama. The festival invites around a dozen young musicians to the North Alabama area to perform free concerts for the public. Phillips co-founded the festival with bassoonist Matthew McDonald, a fellow Huntsville native.[5]

Family Life

Susanna currently resides New York City with her husband, notable New York lawyer David Huntington, and their children. She is sister to Macon Phillips.

Repertoire

OPERA

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  • Carmen – Micaela (Bizet)
  • Les Pecheurs de Perles – Leila (Bizet)
  • Midsummer Night’s Dream – Helena (Britten)
  • Peter Grimes – Ellen Orford (Britten)
  • Turn of the Screw – Governess (Britten)
  • L’Elisir d’Amore – Adina (Donizetti)
  • Orfeo ed Euridice – Euridice (Gluck)
  • Roméo et Juliette – Juliette (Gounod)
  • Alcina – Alcina (Handel)
  • Agrippina – Agrippina (Handel)
  • Giulio Cesare – Cleopatra (Handel)
  • Rodelinda – Rodelinda (Handel)
  • Die lustige Witwe – Hanna (Lehar)
  • Manon – Manon (Massenet)
  • Thais – Thais (Massenet)
  • Cosi fan tutte – Fiordiligi (Mozart)
  • Don Giovanni – Donna Anna (Mozart)
  • Don Giovanni – Donna Elvira (Mozart)
  • Idomeneo – Ilia (Mozart)
  • La finta giardiniera – Sandrina (Mozart)
  • Le Nozze di Figaro – Countess (Mozart)
  • Die Zauberflöte – Pamina (Mozart)
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann – Antonia (Offenbach)
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann – Stella (Offenbach)
  • Dialogues des carmélites – Blanche (Poulenc)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire – Stella (Previn)
  • La Bohème – Musetta (Puccini)
  • L'amour de loin – Clémence (Saariaho)
  • Die Fledermaus – Rosalinda (Strauss)
  • La Traviata – Violetta (Verdi)


ORATORIO/SYMPHONIC

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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
          Poemes 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

Susanna regularly collaborates with pianists and other instrumentalists for art song recitals and chamber music concerts with a variety of thematic and musical interests. For more information on current projects visit her website.

Discography and Recordings

  • 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, First Place and the Audience Prize (2005)
  • Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2005)
  • MacAllister Awards (2005)
  • George London Foundation Awards Competition (2005)
  • Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition
  • American Opera Society Competition
  • Musicians Club of Women Chicago
  • Sullivan Foundation
  • Space Camp Hall of Fame (2015)

References

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