Susanna Andersson

Susanna Andersson (born December 7, 1977 in Östersund , Sweden ) is a Swedish opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Andersson studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London . She made her stage debut in Mozart's Don Giovanni in the role of Zerlina at the Grange Park Opera in Alresford ( City of Winchester ) in 2005 . From 2007 to 2009 she was a member of the Leipzig Opera ensemble . She sang at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , at the English National Opera , the Opera North , the Garsington Opera , the Staatstheater Nürnberg , the National Theater Weimar , the Folkoperan in Stockholm , the Swedish Theater in Turku and the Danish National Opera in Aarhus .

She has given concerts with the pianist Eugene Asti at Carnegie Hall in New York , the Wiener Musikverein and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and sang under the conductors Christopher Hogwood , Lawrence Foster , Roy Goodman , Andrew Manze and Ingo Metzmacher . Her contemporary repertoire includes works by Julian Anderson , George Benjamin , Oliver Knussen , György Ligeti , Luigi Nono , Siegfried Matthus and Wolfgang Rihm . She sang the world premieres of the works dedicated to her, Gaudete by the Scottish composer Stuart MacRae and Animal Songs by the Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer .

Atalanta, Xerxes (GSMD)
Lucia, The Rape of Lucretia (Nürnberg KammerMusikFestival, 2003)
Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute (Oxford Philharmonia, 2006)
Flora, The Turn of the Screw (Nürnberg KammerMusicFestival, 2004)
Philline, Mignon (GSMD, 2005)
Therese, The Breasts of Tiresias (GSMD)
Susanna, Figaro's Wedding (Guildhall 2004)
Adina, L'elisir d'amore (State Theater, Nuremberg, 2006)
Giannetta, L'elisir d'amore (Opera North, 2007)
Echo, Narcissos and Echo ( Jay Schwartz ) (The Lindbury Theater at Covent Garden, 2007)
Papagena, Die Zauberflöte (English National Opera, 2007)
The girlfriend, from one day to the next ( Arnold Schönberg ) (Leipzig Opera, 2008)
Blondchen, The Abduction from the Seraglio (Leipzig Opera, 2008)
Servilia, La clemenza di Tito (Leipzig Opera, 2008)
Valencienne, The Merry Widow (Leipzig Opera, 2008)
Papagena, The Magic Flute (Leipzig Opera, 2008)
Zerbinetta, Ariadne auf Naxos (Leipzig Opera, 2008)
Venus / Gepopo, Le Grand Macabre (English National Opera, 2009)
Oscar, Un ballo in maschera (Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, 2013)

personal data
SURNAME	Andersson, Susanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	7th December 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ostersund , Sweden