Susan Gritton

Winner of the 1994 Kathleen Ferrier Award, Susan Gritton is one of the most versatile and accomplished lyric sopranos of her generation, acclaimed for her verstility in roles ranging from Handel and Mozart to Britten, Janacek and Strauss.This season her engagements on the opera stage include her debut at La Scala, Milan as Ellen Orford Peter Grimes; her debut at the Netherlands Opera as Elettra Idomeneo and a return to the Bolshoi as Donna Anna Don Giovanni. Recent successes include Ellen Orford Peter Grimes (Sydney); Blanche Dialogues des Carmélites (Bayerische Staatsoper); Countess Madeleine Capriccio (Grange Park); Micaela Carmen and Liu Turandot (Covent Garden); Donna Anna Don Giovanni (Bolshoi & Opera de Montreal) and Konstanze Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Deutsche Staatsoper & Bayerische Staatsoper). Title roles include Theodora (Glyndebourne); Rodelinda (Bayerische Staatsoper); The Bartered Bride (Covent Garden) and The Cunning Little Vixen (ENO). A prolific concert and recording artist, her work spans many periods and styles and includes Ravel’s Shéhérazade (RLPO/Mackerras); Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle); Berg’s Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck (Swedish Radio Orchestra/Harding) and Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano).