Susanna Phillips

Susanna Phillips (Huntington) (born 1981) is an American singer who has sung leading lyric soprano roles at 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. In 2002 and 2003 she attended the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory. 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. In 2005, she was also a soloist with the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series. 

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.Itzkoff, Dave (21 April 2010). "Alabama Soprano Wins Sills Award". New York Times.

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. 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, the Emerson String Quartet in Thomasville, Georgia with Warren Jones and colleagues from the Metropolitan Opera, and at Twickenham Fest.Huebner, Michael (2 July 2013). "Alabama-born soprano Susanna Phillips making music in the mountains before return to Huntsville". Alabama Media Group.

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 (), BWV 248
 Easter Oratorio (), BWV 249
 Magnificat, BWV 243
 Masses (various)
 St. John Passion (), BWV 245
 St. Matthew 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, 
 Mass No. 11 in D, 
 Mass No. 12 in B flat, 
 Mass No. 14 in B flat, 
 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 major, K. 257 "Credo"
 Mass in C major, K. 317 "Coronation"
 Great Mass in C minor, 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 ()

Strauss, Richard
 Orchestral Songs
 Four Last Songs, TrV 296

Szymanowski
 Stabat Mater, Op. 53

Vivaldi
 Gloria, RV 589 
 , RV 626
 , 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)OperaliaCompetition.org. 2005 Winners.
 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2005)Metropolitan Opera Archives. Phillips, Susanna (Soprano)
 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)
 Space Camp Hall of Fame (2015)

References

External links
Susanna Phillips official website
Twickenham Fest official website

Category:1981 births
Category:Living people
Category:American operatic sopranos
Category:Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners
Category:Singers from Birmingham, Alabama
Category:Musicians from Huntsville, Alabama
Category:Juilliard School alumni
Category:Winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
Category:21st-century American women opera singers
Category:Music Academy of the West alumni