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Susannah Glanville
Soprano
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 title roles Luisa Miller, Giovanna
d'Arco, Arabella and Tosca and Micaela Carmen (Phyllida Lloyd), Alice
Ford Falstaff, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Foreign Princess Rusalka, Lady
Penelope Rich Gloriana, Donna Luisa in Gerhard's La Duenna and
Cressida Troilus & Cressida. Her other UK appearances have included
Alice Ford Falstaff, Pamina The Magic Flute and Micaela in the Jonathan
Miller Carmen for English National Opera, 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 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.
Other engagements have included Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw in Bari, the world première of John
Pickard's Agamemnon's Tomb for Huddersfield Choral Society and Elisabetta Don Carlo for Opera North.
Recent engagements include Helena A Midsummer Night's Dream in Bari and in Reggio Emilia, Foreign
Princess Rusalka for Opera North, the title role Luisa Miller for the Buxton Festival, Wagner's Wesendonck
Lieder in the Leeds International Chamber Music series and at the Buxton Festival, the title role Tosca and
Blanca Ines de Castro, for Scottish Opera, female Chorus in The Rape Of Lucretia at the Maggio Musical
Fiorentino, Florence, and Reggio Emilia, Ravenna and Minnie La Fanciulla del West at Opera Holland
Park.
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