Susanna Phillips - Soprano

Alabama native Susanna Phillips has attracted great acclaim for a voice of striking beauty and sophistication. Recipient of the Metropolitan Opera's 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, she appears at the Met this season as Pamina in Julie Taymor's celebrated production of The Magic Flute, and as Musetta in La bohème, the role with which she made her debut in 2008. She also portrays Musetta on the Met's Japan tour in June in a cast that includes Anna Netrebko and Joseph Calleja. She also appears as Euridice in Minnesota Opera's Orfeo ed Euridice with David Daniels, under Harry Bicket, and performs her first staged Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Birmingham, and sings Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Boston Lyric Opera. Concert highlights include the Marilyn Horne Foundation gala at Carnegie Hall, Jeptha with New York's celebrated Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Santa Barbara Symphony, and solo recitals in Chicago, IL, Huntsville, AL, and Jackson, MS. This past summer she was a featured artist in the Met's Summer Recital Series in Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park, and a resident artist at the Marlboro Music and OK Mozart Festivals. In the banner year of 2005, Susanna Phillips was the winner of four of the world's leading vocal competitions - Operalia (both First Place and the Audience Prize), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the MacAllister Awards and the George London Foundation.