Susannah Glanville
Susannah Glanville comes from Settle. North Yorkshire and studied at the Royal College of Music and later at the National Opera Studio, sponsored by Opera North, Friends of Covent Garden, the Countess of Munster Trust and the Wolfson Trust.
Susannah's operatic repertoire includes regular appearances at Opera North, where her roles have included Micaela Carmen (Phyllida Lloyd), Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Foreign Princess Rusalka, Lady Penelope Rich Gloriana, Donna Luisa in Gerhard's La Duenna (also recorded by Chandos), Cressida Troilus & Cressida and title roles Luisa Miller, Giovanna d'Arco, Arabella and Tosca. Her other UK appearances have included her English National Opera debut as Pamina The Magic Flute and Micaela in the Jonathan Miller Carmen, Lisa Queen of Spades for Welsh National Opera, Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito for Glyndebourne on Tour and her debut as 1st Lady Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden conducted by Philip Jordan.
Outside the UK, Susannah Glanville has appeared as Countess Le Nozze di Figaro for Opéra de Nice and Ellen Orford Peter Grimes and Lady Penelope Rich Gloriana (Opera North) at the Liceu in Barcelona. She made her US debut in 1998 as Blanche in Andre Previn's Streetcar Named Desire for San Francisco Opera (conducted by the composer) - a role she subsequently repeated for her debut with Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Austin, Texas and in a series of concert performances with Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival also conducted by Previn. In 2006 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York as 1st Lady Die Zauberflöte.
Concert engagements have included two rare Hindemith operas, Das Nusch-Nuschi and Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen at the Barbican Hall with Sir Andrew Davis and BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise with the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square, Mahler 4th Symphony (Noseda) and Mozart Concert Arias with BBC Philharmonic, Britten's Spring Symphony with Oslo Philharmonic (Previn), Britten's War Requiem with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Palmyra in Delius's Koanga with Chelsea Opera Group , Donizetti Requiem with the Northern Sinfonia, Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini for Chelsea Opera Group, Verdi Requiem with English Northern Philharmonia (Paul Daniel) and Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito with the Royal Flanders Philharmonic in Antwerp. Susannah also appeared as Donna Elvira in a TV film of Don Giovanni with Sir Thomas Allen and as Lady Penelope Rich in Phyllida Lloyd's film of Gloriana. In addition she sang the world premiere of Jonathan Harvey's Mothers Shall Not Cry at the BBC Proms, made her Berlin debut with the Deutsche Sinfonie in John Adams How Could This Happen conducted by Kent Nagano, performed Richard Strauss Four Last Songs with Northern Philharmonia and sang Stravinsky's Les Noces with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden.
Engagements in 2007/2008 include Alice Ford Falstaff for Opera North, a recital in Leeds and John Pickard's Agamemnon's Tomb for Hudderfield Choral Society.
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