Susan Gritton

Winner of the 1994 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize, Susan Gritton read botany at Oxford and London Universities.

On the opera stage, her engagements include Micäela (Carmen), Liù (Turandot), Marenka (The Bartered Bride) and Ismene (Mitridate) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and the title role of 'Theodora' at Glyndebourne; Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Rodelinda and Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at Opera de Montreal; Countess (Le nozze di Figaro); Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and Vixen at the English National Opera; Marzelline (Fidelio) in Rome; Tytania (A Midsummer Night's Dream) in Venice and Fiordiligi at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York.

Future operatic engagements include Fiordiligi, Konstanze and Blanche at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Fiordiligi at the ENO; her operatic debut in Vienna in a staged production of 'Messiah' and her role debut as Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) for Opera Australia.

Her recital appearances have included London and New York and, in concert, she appears regularly with many of the world’s great orchestras in venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie and at the BBC Proms with conductors such as Rattle, Colin Davis, Mackerras, Norrington, Tate and Harding.

A Grammy nominated artist, she had recorded prolifically.

Photo: Tim Cantrell.