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Susan Graham (born July 23, 1960, Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell, New Mexico

Roswell is a city in and the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, United States. The population was 45,293 at the 2000 United States Census....
) is an American mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
.

Raised in Midland, Texas
Midland, Texas

Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, located on the Great Plains of the western area of the U.S. state of Texas. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County, Texas....
, she is a graduate of Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University is a public university, coeducational, research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the List of largest Texas universities by enrollment student body in the state of T...
 and the Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a world-renowned music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers Academic degrees on the Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and doctoral levels in the areas of european classical music and jazz performance and composition....
. She studied the piano for 13 years. She was a winner in the Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
's National Council Auditions, and also a recipient of the Schwabacher Award from the Merola Program
Gaetano Merola

Gaetano Merola was an Italian conducting and founder of the San Francisco Opera....
 of San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera is the second largest opera company in North America after the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola ....
.

Graham made her international début at Covent Garden
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
 in 1994, playing Massenet's Chérubin. She has also premièred several roles in contemporary operas, including John Harbison
John Harbison

John Harris Harbison is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.Harbison won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of sixteen in 1954....
's The Great Gatsby (Jordan Baker), Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie

Jake Heggie is an United States composer and pianist.Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking , The End of the Affair , At The Statue of Venus , and To Hell and Back ....
's Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking (opera)

Dead Man Walking is the first opera by Jake Heggie, with a libretto by Terrence McNally; it premiered on October 7, 2000 in music#Opera at the War Memorial Opera House , San Francisco Opera....
 (Sister Helen Prejean), and Tobias Picker
Tobias Picker

Tobias Picker is an American composer. Picker began composing at the age of eight and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Princeton University, where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt....
's An American Tragedy (Sondra Finchley).

Graham is a noted champion of the French song repertoire and of songs by contemporary American composers, including Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem is an American composer and Personal journal. He is best known and praised for his song settings.He was born in Richmond, Indiana, Indiana and received his early education in Chicago at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the American Conservatory and then Northwestern University....
 and Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann

'Lowell Liebermann' is an American composer, pianist and Conducting.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at the Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op....
.






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Susan Graham (born July 23, 1960, Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell, New Mexico

Roswell is a city in and the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, United States. The population was 45,293 at the 2000 United States Census....
) is an American mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
.

Raised in Midland, Texas
Midland, Texas

Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, located on the Great Plains of the western area of the U.S. state of Texas. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County, Texas....
, she is a graduate of Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University is a public university, coeducational, research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the List of largest Texas universities by enrollment student body in the state of T...
 and the Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a world-renowned music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers Academic degrees on the Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and doctoral levels in the areas of european classical music and jazz performance and composition....
. She studied the piano for 13 years. She was a winner in the Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
's National Council Auditions, and also a recipient of the Schwabacher Award from the Merola Program
Gaetano Merola

Gaetano Merola was an Italian conducting and founder of the San Francisco Opera....
 of San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera is the second largest opera company in North America after the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola ....
.

Graham made her international début at Covent Garden
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
 in 1994, playing Massenet's Chérubin. She has also premièred several roles in contemporary operas, including John Harbison
John Harbison

John Harris Harbison is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.Harbison won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of sixteen in 1954....
's The Great Gatsby (Jordan Baker), Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie

Jake Heggie is an United States composer and pianist.Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking , The End of the Affair , At The Statue of Venus , and To Hell and Back ....
's Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking (opera)

Dead Man Walking is the first opera by Jake Heggie, with a libretto by Terrence McNally; it premiered on October 7, 2000 in music#Opera at the War Memorial Opera House , San Francisco Opera....
 (Sister Helen Prejean), and Tobias Picker
Tobias Picker

Tobias Picker is an American composer. Picker began composing at the age of eight and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Princeton University, where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt....
's An American Tragedy (Sondra Finchley).

Graham is a noted champion of the French song repertoire and of songs by contemporary American composers, including Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem is an American composer and Personal journal. He is best known and praised for his song settings.He was born in Richmond, Indiana, Indiana and received his early education in Chicago at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the American Conservatory and then Northwestern University....
 and Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann

'Lowell Liebermann' is an American composer, pianist and Conducting.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at the Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op....
. Graham made her Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue , occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street , two blocks south of Central Park....
 recital debut in April 2003, and a recording of this recital was later released.

Graham sang "Bless This House
Bless This House (song)

"Bless This House" is a song. The words were written by England Helen Taylor, a poetry, under the original title "Bless the House." The music was composed by Australian May H....
" at George W. Bush
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
's second inauguration on 20 January 2005. She is a US delegate for UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
.

Opera roles

Her operatic roles include:
  • Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber

    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
    • Vanessa
      Vanessa (opera)

      Vanessa is an opera in three acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958, in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti....
       (Erika)
  • Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    • Béatrice et Bénédict
      Béatrice et Bénédict

      B?atrice et B?n?dict is a comic opera in two acts by Hector Berlioz. The French libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based loosely on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing....
       (Béatrice) 1997
    • La damnation de Faust
      The Damnation of Faust

      La damnation de Faust is a work for orchestra, voices, and choir written by Hector Berlioz .Berlioz read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Part One in 1828, in G?rard de Nerval's translation; "this marvelous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his Memoirs....
       (Marguerite) La Scala
      La Scala

      The Teatro alla Scala , in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's most famous opera houses. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778, under the name Nuovo Regio Ducal Teatro alla Scala with Antonio Salieri Europa riconosciuta....
      , Metropolitan Opera
      Metropolitan Opera

      The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
       November 2008
    • Les Troyens
      Les Troyens

      Les Troyens is a France opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid....
       (Didon) Théâtre du Châtelet
      Théâtre du Châtelet

      The Th??tre du Ch?telet is a theatre and opera house in Paris, France. One of two theatres built on the site of a ch?telet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and 1862....
      , (Paris)
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck
    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years....
    • Iphigénie en Tauride
      Iphigénie en Tauride

      Iphig?nie en Tauride is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. The French language libretto was written by Nicolas-Fran?ois Guillard....
       (Iphigénie)
  • Alexander Goehr
    Alexander Goehr

    Alexander Goehr is an England composer and academic.He was born in Berlin, the son of Walter Goehr. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he met Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth....
    • Arianna (Arianna)
  • Charles Gounod
    Charles Gounod

    Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
    • Roméo et Juliette
      Roméo et Juliette

      Rom?o et Juliette is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French language libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carr?, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare....
       (Stephano) Seattle Opera
  • George Frideric Handel
    George Frideric Handel

    George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
    • Alcina
      Alcina

      Alcina is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. The libretto's author is unknown, but the plot is taken from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, an epic poem set in the time of Charlemagne's wars against Islam....
       (Ruggerio)
    • Ariodante
      Ariodante

      Ariodante is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous Italian language libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso....
       Houston Grand Opera
      Houston Grand Opera

      Houston Grand Opera was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and Houston cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit and Edward Bing....
      , San Francisco Opera
      San Francisco Opera

      San Francisco Opera is the second largest opera company in North America after the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola ....
  • John Harbison
    John Harbison

    John Harris Harbison is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.Harbison won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of sixteen in 1954....
    • Great Gatsby (Jordan Baker) 1999
  • Jake Heggie
    Jake Heggie

    Jake Heggie is an United States composer and pianist.Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking , The End of the Affair , At The Statue of Venus , and To Hell and Back ....
    • Dead Man Walking
      Dead Man Walking (opera)

      Dead Man Walking is the first opera by Jake Heggie, with a libretto by Terrence McNally; it premiered on October 7, 2000 in music#Opera at the War Memorial Opera House , San Francisco Opera....
       (Sister Helen Prejean
      Helen Prejean

      Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ is a vowed Roman Catholic Church religious sister, one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille, who has become a leading United States advocate for the abolition of the death penalty....
      )
  • Franz Lehár
    Franz Lehár

    Franz Leh?r , known in Hungarian as Leh?r Ferenc, was an Austrian composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas....
    • The Merry Widow
      The Merry Widow

      The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary composer Franz Leh?r. The Librettos, Viktor L?on and Leo Stein , based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband ? on an 1861 comedy play, L'attach? d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac....
       Hanna Glawari (the title character)
  • Jules Massenet
    Jules Massenet

    Jules Massenet was a France composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era....
    • Werther
      Werther

      Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by ?douard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German novella The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....
       (Charlotte)
    • Chérubin Royal Opera House
      Royal Opera House

      The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
  • Claudio Monteverdi
    Claudio Monteverdi

    Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , was an Italian composer, viol, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the music of the Renaissance music to that of the Baroque music....
    • L'incoronazione di Poppea
      L'incoronazione di Poppea

      L'incoronazione di Poppea is an opera seria in three acts by Claudio Monteverdi to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, based on historical incidents described in the Annals ....
       (Poppea)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    • Così fan tutte
      Così fan tutte

      Cos? fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte....
       (Dorabella)
    • Don Giovanni
      Don Giovanni

      Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with Italian language libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787 in music....
       (Donna Elvira) Lyric Opera of Chicago
      Lyric Opera of Chicago

      Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicol? Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma ....
    • Idomeneo
      Idomeneo

      Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante is an Italian language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, which had been set to music by Andr? Campra as Idom?n?e in 1712....
       (Idamante) Houston Grand Opera
      Houston Grand Opera

      Houston Grand Opera was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and Houston cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit and Edward Bing....
      , Palais Garnier
      Palais Garnier

      The Palais Garnier, also known as the Op?ra de Paris or Op?ra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Op?ra, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Op?ra in Paris, France....
      , Paris
    • La clemenza di Tito
      La clemenza di Tito

      La clemenza di Tito , K?chel-Verzeichnis 621, is an opera seria composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with text after Metastasio. It was started after the bulk of The Magic Flute, the last opera that Mozart worked on, was already written ....
       (Sesto) Opéra National de Paris
      Opéra National de Paris

      Op?ra National de Paris is the leading opera company of France. It stages performances at the Op?ra Bastille and Op?ra Garnier in Paris.Other opera houses in Paris are the Th??tre du Ch?telet, Op?ra-Comique and Th??tre des Champs-?lys?es....
       and concert performances
    • Le Nozze di Figaro
      The Marriage of Figaro

      Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K?chel-Verzeichnis, is an opera buffa composed in 1786_in_music#Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro ....
       (Cherubino) Metropolitan Opera
      Metropolitan Opera

      The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
    • Lucio Silla
      Lucio Silla

      Lucio Silla is an Italian opera in three acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Giovanni de Gamerra.It was first performed on 26 December 1772 at the Regio Ducal Teatro in Milan....
       (Cecilio), Santa Fe Opera
      Santa Fe Opera

      The Santa Fe Opera is an American opera company, located north of Santa Fe, New Mexico in the U.S. state of New Mexico, headquartered on a former guest ranch of ....
  • Tobias Picker
    Tobias Picker

    Tobias Picker is an American composer. Picker began composing at the age of eight and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Princeton University, where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt....
    • An American Tragedy
      An American Tragedy

      An American Tragedy is a novel by the United States writer Theodore Dreiser. The book is the story of a young man, Clyde Griffiths, whose troubles with women and the law take him from his religious upbringing in Kansas City, Missouri to the fictional town of Lycurgus, New York....
       (Sondra Finchley
      Sondra Finchley

      Sondra Finchley is the rich society girlfriend of Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's novel, An American Tragedy. She is alleged to be the reason he wishes to dispose of his pregnant girlfriend Roberta Alden....
      ) Metropolitan Opera
      Metropolitan Opera

      The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
       world première
  • Henry Purcell
    Henry Purcell

    Henry Purcell...
    • Dido and Aeneas
      Dido and Aeneas

      Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque music composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate. The first known performance was at a girls' school in the spring of 1689 and hence is given catalogue number Z. 626....
       (Sorceress, Dido)
  • Gioachino Rossini
    • Il barbiere di Siviglia
      The Barber of Seville

      The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The overture, first written for Aureliano in Palmira, is a famous example of Rossini's characteristic Italian style....
       (Rosina)
  • Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
    • Ariadne auf Naxos
      Ariadne auf Naxos

      Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal....
       (Composer) Metropolitan Opera
      Metropolitan Opera

      The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
      , Royal Opera House
      Royal Opera House

      The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
      , and Glyndebourne
      Glyndebourne Festival Opera

      Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an list of opera festivals held at Glyndebourne, a country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, except in 1993, when the theatre was being rebuilt....
    • Der Rosenkavalier
      Der Rosenkavalier

      Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai and Moli?re?s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac....
       (Octavian)
  • Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
    • Falstaff
      Falstaff (opera)

      Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from William Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1....
       (Meg Page)


Awards

  • 2001 Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
    Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

    The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture , and confirmed as part of the Ordre National du M?rite by President of France Charles de Gaulle in 1963....
    )
  • June 2005 Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters
  • Musical America 2004 Vocalist of the Year
  • 2005 Opera News Award
  • September 5, 2006 Midland, Texas first annual "Susan Graham Day"
  • May 2008, Honorary Doctorate, Manhattan School of Music


Some of the recordings have also received awards. See below.

Recordings

Susan Graham's recordings (in chronological order):

1992
  • Le sacre du printemps
    The Rite of Spring

    The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French language title, Le Sacre du Printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and original set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, all under impresario Serge Diaghilev....
    , Pulcinella
    Pulcinella (ballet)

    Pulcinella is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on an 18th-century play ? Pulcinella is a character originating from Commedia dell'arte. The ballet premiered in Paris on 15 May, 1920 under the baton of Ernest Ansermet....
     (Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
    ) Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
    Gerard Schwarz

    Gerard Schwarz is an USA conducting. He has been music director of the Seattle Seattle Symphony Orchestra since 1985 and is music advisor and principal conductor of the Eastern Music Festival....
     (conductor) Delos Records 3100
1995
  • Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    ) Bryn Terfel
    Bryn Terfel

    Bryn Terfel Jones Order of the British Empire is a Wales bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro and Leporello, but he has expanded his repertoire to include heavier roles, especially those by Richard Wagner....
    , Karita Mattila
    Karita Mattila

    Karita Mattila is a leading opera soprano. She was born Karita Marjatta Mattila on September 5, 1960 in Somero, Finland.Mattila appears regularly in the major opera houses world-wide, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, Th??tre du Ch?telet, Op?ra Bastille, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Hou...
    , Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Barbara Bonney
    Barbara Bonney

    Barbara Bonney is an United States soprano.Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist....
    , Endrik Wottrich, Iris Vermillion, Brigitte Poschner-Klebel, Susan Graham, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Harry Peeters, Berliner Philharmoniker
    Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

    The Berlin Philharmonic , is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of "top ten European Orchestras", after the Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra....
    , Claudio Abbado
    Claudio Abbado

    Claudio Abbado, Italian orders of merit , is an Italy Conducting. He has held many of the most prestigious positions in the world of classical music, having served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music di...
     (conductor). Sony Classical 66308
1996
  • Roméo et Juliette
    Roméo et Juliette

    Rom?o et Juliette is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French language libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carr?, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare....
     (Charles Gounod
    Charles Gounod

    Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
    ) Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo

    Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
    , Ruth Ann Swenson
    Ruth Ann Swenson

    Ruth Ann Swenson is an American soprano who is renowned for her brilliance in coloratura soprano roles.Born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Commack, New York on Long Island, Swenson studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and briefly at Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut....
    , Miles, Kurt Ollmann, Susan Graham, Alain Vernhes, Paul Charles Clarke Bayerischen Rundfunkorchester und chor, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Leonard Slatkin
    Leonard Slatkin

    Leonard Edward Slatkin is an United States conducting. Long associated with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, he is now music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra....
     (conductor). RCA 68440
1997
  • Béatrice et Bénédict
    Béatrice et Bénédict

    B?atrice et B?n?dict is a comic opera in two acts by Hector Berlioz. The French libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based loosely on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing....
     (Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    ). Catherine Robbin (Ursule), Gabriel Bacquier (Somarone), Gilles Cachemaille (Claudio), Jean-Luc Viala (Bénédict), Philippe Magnant (Léonato), Susan Graham (Béatrice), Sylvia McNair
    Sylvia McNair

    Sylvia McNair is an United States opera singer and classical music recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway theatre and cabaret genres....
     (Héro), Vincent le Texier (Don Pedro), Lyon Opera Orchestra and Chorus, John Nelson
    John Nelson (conductor)

    John Wilton Nelson is an United States conducting. Nelson studied at Wheaton College, Illinois, and later at the Juilliard School of Music with Jean Morel ....
     (conductor). MusiFrance 2292
  • The Gold & Silver Gala Susan duets with Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo

    Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
     in La Ci Darem La Mano. EMI Classics 56337
  • Les nuits d'été and Opera Arias (Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    ) Les nuits d'été Op. 7 and songs from La Damnation De Faust
    The Damnation of Faust

    La damnation de Faust is a work for orchestra, voices, and choir written by Hector Berlioz .Berlioz read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Part One in 1828, in G?rard de Nerval's translation; "this marvelous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his Memoirs....
     Op. 24, Benvenuto Cellini
    Benvenuto Cellini (opera)

    Benvenuto Cellini is an opera in two acts with music by Hector Berlioz and libretto by L?on de Wailly and Auguste Barbier. It was the first of Berlioz's three operas....
    , Les Troyens
    Les Troyens

    Les Troyens is a France opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid....
    , Béatrice et Bénédict
    Béatrice et Bénédict

    B?atrice et B?n?dict is a comic opera in two acts by Hector Berlioz. The French libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based loosely on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing....
    . Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, John Nelson (conductor) Sony 62730
1998
  • La Belle Époque – The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn (Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn

    Reynaldo Hahn was a naturalization France composer, conducting, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the m?lodie....
    ) Roger Vignoles
    Roger Vignoles

    Roger Vignoles is a United Kingdom pianist and accompanist. He regularly performs with the world?s leading singers ? including Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Thomas Hampson , Sarah Walker, Susan Graham, Felicity Lott, Stephan Genz, Monica Groop, Wolfgang Holzmair, Bernarda Fink, Christine Sch?fer, Brigitte Fassbaender and...
     (piano) Sony. Awards: Winner of Performance Today
    Performance Today

    Performance Today is a Peabody Award-winning radio show, hosted by Fred Child, and is the most listened-to daily European classical music radio program in the United States, with 1.2 million listeners on 237 stations....
     "Critic's Choice" Award; the 1999 Caecilia Prize; Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik critic's award; Choc du Monde de la Musique; Opera International's Timbre de Platine. Sony 60168
  • Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    : Shéhérazade
    Shéhérazade

    Sh?h?razade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel. The first is Sh?h?razade, ouverture de f?erie, written in 1898, a work for orchestra....
    , Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
     La damoiselle elue, Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
     Les illuminations. Sylvia McNair
    Sylvia McNair

    Sylvia McNair is an United States opera singer and classical music recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway theatre and cabaret genres....
    , Susan Graham, Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
     Seiji Ozawa
    Seiji Ozawa

    is a Japanese conducting, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic music works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera....
    . Philips 446682. (Susan sings on La damoiselle elue.)
2000
  • Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
    Der Rosenkavalier

    Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai and Moli?re?s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac....
     Act 1 - closing scene; Act 3 - Trio and finale; Arabella Act 1 duet; Capriccio - closing scene. Renée Fleming
    Renée Fleming

    File:Ren?e Fleming 2008.jpgRen?e Fleming is an accomplished American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming possesses an agile full lyric soprano voice endowed with ringing freedom and apparent ease near the extreme top of its range....
     (Marschallin), Barbara Bonney
    Barbara Bonney

    Barbara Bonney is an United States soprano.Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist....
    , Susan Graham (Octavian), Vienna PO, Christoph Eschenbach
    Christoph Eschenbach

    Christoph Eschenbach is a German pianist and conducting....
     (conductor) Decca 466 314-2
  • Songs of Ned Rorem (Rorem
    Ned Rorem

    Ned Rorem is an American composer and Personal journal. He is best known and praised for his song settings.He was born in Richmond, Indiana, Indiana and received his early education in Chicago at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the American Conservatory and then Northwestern University....
    ) Malcolm Martineau
    Malcolm Martineau

    Malcolm Martineau is a Scotland pianist....
     (piano) Rorem's settings of poems by Paul Goodman
    Paul Goodman (writer)

    Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement....
    , Theodore Roethke
    Theodore Roethke

    Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking....
    , Witter Bynner
    Witter Bynner

    Harold Witter Bynner was an United States poet, writer and scholar, known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at what is now the Inn of the Turquoise Bear....
    , Tennyson
    Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

    Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets.Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including "In the valley of Cauteretz", "Break, break, break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade ", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar"....
    , Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman

    Walter Whitman was an United States Poetry of the United States, essayist, journalism, and humanism. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and literary realism, incorporating both views in his works....
     and others. Erato
    Erato Records

    Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
     80222
  • Alcina
    Alcina

    Alcina is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. The libretto's author is unknown, but the plot is taken from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, an epic poem set in the time of Charlemagne's wars against Islam....
     (Handel
    George Frideric Handel

    George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
    ) Renée Fleming
    Renée Fleming

    File:Ren?e Fleming 2008.jpgRen?e Fleming is an accomplished American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming possesses an agile full lyric soprano voice endowed with ringing freedom and apparent ease near the extreme top of its range....
    , Susan Graham, Natalie Dessay
    Natalie Dessay

    Natalie Dessay is a France coloratura soprano. She dropped the "h" in her first name in honor of Natalie Wood when she was in grade school and subsequently simplified the spelling of her surname outside France....
    , Kathleen Kuhlmann, Timothy Robinson, Laurent Naouri
    Laurent Naouri

    Laurent Naouri is a French bass-baritone. Initially beginning his education at the ?cole Centrale de Lyon, Naouri decided to concentrate on opera in 1986 and continued his musical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London....
    , Juanita Lascarro, Michael Loughlin-Smith, Maurizio Rossano, Laurent Collobert, Eric Demarteau, Les Arts Florissants
    Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)

    Les Arts Florissants is a Baroque musical ensemble of singers and musicians founded in 1979 by William Christie and based in France. The group is noted for its productions of baroque operas, many of which are available on CD and DVD....
    , William Christie
    William Christie (musician)

    William Lincoln Christie is the founder and director of Les Arts Florissants .Christie studied art history at Harvard University and music at Yale University....
     (conductor). Erato
    Erato Records

    Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
     80233
  • Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    : L'enfance du Christ; Three Irlande songs; Sara la baigneuse Susan Graham, François Le Roux, John Mark Ainsley
    John Mark Ainsley

    John Mark Ainsley is an England lyric tenor. Known for his supple voice, Ainsley is particularly admired for his interpretations of baroque music and the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
    , Montreal SO and Chorus, Dutoit. Decca
2001
  • Il tenero momento (Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
     and Gluck
    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years....
    ). Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a British authentic performance orchestra. The OAE is a resident orchestra of the Southbank Centre, London, and associate orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera....
    , Harry Bicket (conductor) Erato
    Erato Records

    Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
     Best Recital Disc in 2001 (The Gramophone
    The Gramophone

    Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London by Haymarket Group devoted to European classical music and particularly sound recording of classical music....
    ), German Echo Klassik award, Prix Gabriel Fauré and the Grand Prix (Académie du disque)
2002
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking (opera)

    Dead Man Walking is the first opera by Jake Heggie, with a libretto by Terrence McNally; it premiered on October 7, 2000 in music#Opera at the War Memorial Opera House , San Francisco Opera....
     (Heggie
    Jake Heggie

    Jake Heggie is an United States composer and pianist.Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking , The End of the Affair , At The Statue of Venus , and To Hell and Back ....
    ) Susan Graham, Catherine Cook, Robert Orth, Frederica von Stade
    Frederica von Stade

    Frederica von Stade , is an American mezzo-soprano. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she acquired the nickname Flicka in her childhood. Miss von Stade attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City....
    , Nicolle Foland, David Harper, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers (conductor). Erato
    Erato Records

    Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
     86238-2
  • C'est ça la vie, c'est ça l'amour (Songs by Moïse Simons, Messager
    André Messager

    Andr? Charles Prosper Messager , France composer and musician, was born at Montlu?on....
    , Maurice Yvain, Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    , Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn

    Reynaldo Hahn was a naturalization France composer, conducting, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the m?lodie....
    , and Mahler
    Gustav Mahler

    Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conducting. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day....
    ) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England....
    , Yves Abel (conductor). Erato
    Erato Records

    Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
     42106


2003 At Carnegie Hall (Songs by Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
, Debussy
Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
, Berg
Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
, Poulenc
Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
, Messager
André Messager

Andr? Charles Prosper Messager , France composer and musician, was born at Montlu?on....
, Moïse Simons, Hahn
Reynaldo Hahn

Reynaldo Hahn was a naturalization France composer, conducting, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the m?lodie....
, Mahler
Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conducting. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day....
, and Ben Moore.) Malcolm Martineau
Malcolm Martineau

Malcolm Martineau is a Scotland pianist....
 (piano) Erato
Erato Records

Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 in music to promote France classical music. In 1992 in music it became part of Warner Bros. Records....
 2564 60295-2 2004
  • Concord Sonata
    Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives)

    The Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60 by Charles Ives, commonly known as the Concord Sonata, is one of the composer's best-known and most highly regarded pieces....
     - Songs     (Ives
    Charles Ives

    Charles Edward Ives was an American musical modernism composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance....
    ) 2005 Grammy Award
    Grammy Award

    The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
     for Best Classical Vocal Performance
    Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance

    The Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...
    . Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a French pianist. He was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod.In 1973, he was awarded the chamber music prize of the Conservatoire de Paris....
     (piano), Emmanuel Pahud
    Emmanuel Pahud

    Emmanuel Pahud is a France-Switzerland flute player.Pahud started to learn the flute at the age of 6 and in 1990 graduated with the Premier Prix from the Paris Conservatoire while studying with Michel Debost before continuing his studies with Aur?le Nicolet....
     (flute), Tabea Zimmermann
    Tabea Zimmermann

    Tabea Zimmermann, born on October 8 1966 in Lahr, , is a German violist.She began learning to play the viola at the age of three, and commenced piano studies at age five....
     (viola). Warner Classics 2564 60297-2


  • Vanessa
    Vanessa (opera)

    Vanessa is an opera in three acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958, in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti....
     (Barber
    Samuel Barber

    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
    ). Susan Graham (Erika), Christine Brewer (Vanessa), William Burden (Anatol), Michael Davis, Neal Davies (The Old Doctor), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Old Baroness), Simon Birchall (Nicholas), Stephen Charlesworth (Footman), BBC Singers (Servants, Guests, Peasants), Anthony Legge (conductor), BBC Symphony Orchestra
    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in United Kingdom....
    , Leonard Slatkin
    Leonard Slatkin

    Leonard Edward Slatkin is an United States conducting. Long associated with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, he is now music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra....
     (conductor). Chandos CHSA 5032


  • Les Troyens
    Les Troyens

    Les Troyens is a France opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid....
     (Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    ) — DVD. Susan Graham (Dido), Gregory Kunde (Aeneas), Laurent Naouri
    Laurent Naouri

    Laurent Naouri is a French bass-baritone. Initially beginning his education at the ?cole Centrale de Lyon, Naouri decided to concentrate on opera in 1986 and continued his musical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London....
     (Narbal), Lydia Korniordou (Andromache), Mark Padmore (Iopas), Topi Lehtipuu (Hylas/Helenus), Fernand Bernardi (Ghost of Hector), Danielle Bouthillon (Hecube), Nicolas Courjal (Trojan Guard), Benjamin Davies (Trojan soldier), Frances Jellard (Polyxenes), Anna Caterina Antonacci
    Anna Caterina Antonacci

    Anna Caterina Antonacci is an Italian people soprano, known for her roles in the bel canto and Baroque music repertoire.Born in Ferrara, Antonacci studied in Bologna, and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo....
     (Cassandra), Ludovic Tézier (Chorèbe), Renata Pokupic (Anna), Hippolyte Lykavieris (Astyanax), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Ascanius), Nicolas Testé (Panthus), René Schirrer (Priam), Laurent Alvaro (Trojan Guard), Robert Davies (Greek Captain), Simon Davies (Priest of Pluto), Monteverdi Choir. BBC / Opus Arte
  • Dido and Aeneas
    Dido and Aeneas

    Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque music composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate. The first known performance was at a girls' school in the spring of 1689 and hence is given catalogue number Z. 626....
     (Purcell
    Henry Purcell

    Henry Purcell...
    ) Susan Graham (Dido), Ian Bostridge
    Ian Bostridge

    Ian Bostridge Order of the British Empire is an acclaimed England tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist....
     (Aeneas), Camilla Tilling (Belinda), Felicity Palmer
    Felicity Palmer

    Felicity Joan Palmer, Order of the British Empire is an England mezzo-soprano .She studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London and under Marianne Schech's guidance at the Munich College for Music and Theatre....
     (Sorceress), David Daniels (Spirit), Cécile de Boever (Second Woman), Paul Agnew (A Sailor), Emmanuelle Haïm
    Emmanuelle Haïm

    Emmanuelle Ha?m is a France harpsichordist and conductor. . She has a particular interest in early music and Baroque music. She trained at the Conservatoire Sup?rieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris....
     (conductor), European Voices, Le Concert d'Astrée. Virgin Veritas 45605. Grammy Award
    Grammy Award

    The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
     nomination. Maria Callas
    Maria Callas

    Maria Callas was an American-born Greeks soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts....
     award from the Académie du Disque Lyrique


2005
  • Poèmes de l'amour — Chausson
    Ernest Chausson

    Am?d?e-Ernest Chausson was a France Romantic music composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish....
     Poeme de l’amour et de la mer; Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
     Sheherazade); Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
     orch. Adams
    John Adams

    John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
     Songs from Le Livre De Baudelaire BBC Symphony Orchestra
    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in United Kingdom....
    , Yan Pascal Tortelier
    Yan Pascal Tortelier

    Yan Pascal Tortelier is an internationally renowned France conducting and is the son of the late cellist Paul Tortelier.Born in Paris, he has worked and recorded extensively with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester — for whom he was Principal Conductor from 1992 to 2003....
     Warner Classics 2564 619382 (CD)
  • Sacred Songs Renée Fleming
    Renée Fleming

    File:Ren?e Fleming 2008.jpgRen?e Fleming is an accomplished American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming possesses an agile full lyric soprano voice endowed with ringing freedom and apparent ease near the extreme top of its range....
     (soprano), London Voices, RPO/Delfs. Decca 475 6925. Susan sings a duet with Renée in "Abends will ich schlafen gehn" from Engelbert Humperdinck
    Engelbert Humperdinck

    Engelbert Humperdinck was a Germany composer, best known for his opera, H?nsel und Gretel .Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine Province....
    's Hänsel und Gretel.
2006
  • La Clemenza di Tito
    La clemenza di Tito

    La clemenza di Tito , K?chel-Verzeichnis 621, is an opera seria composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with text after Metastasio. It was started after the bulk of The Magic Flute, the last opera that Mozart worked on, was already written ....
     (Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    ). – DVD. Susan Graham (Sesto). Opus Arte OA 0942
  • Werther
    Werther

    Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by ?douard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German novella The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....
     (Massenet
    Jules Massenet

    Jules Massenet was a France composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era....
    ) — DVD Thomas Hampson
    Thomas Hampson (singer)

    Thomas Hampson is an United States of America opera singer .Thomas Hampson grew up in Spokane, Washington. He studied with Marietta Coyle, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Martial Singher, and Horst G?nther....
     (Werther), Susan Graham (Charlotte), Sandrine Piau
    Sandrine Piau

    Sandrine Piau is an opera soprano. Trained as a harpist, she studied voice at the Coll?ge Lamartine and the Conservatoire National Sup?rieur de Musique du Paris....
    , Stephane Degout (Albert), Michel Plasson
    Michel Plasson

    Michel Plasson is a France conducting.He is long associated with the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse as principal conductor from 1968 to 2003, and is now its honorary conductor....
     (conductor), Chatelet Opera, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Virgin Classics


2008
  • Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
     Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, La mort de Cléopâtre Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
    Simon Rattle

    Sir Simon Denis Rattle, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts, is an England Conducting. He rose to prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and is currently principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....
     EMI 2162240
  • Un Frisson Français: A Century of French Song Songs by Georges Bizet
    Georges Bizet

    Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
    , César Franck
    César Franck

    C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
    , Édouard Lalo
    Édouard Lalo

    ?douard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a France composer of Spanish descent....
    , Charles Gounod
    Charles Gounod

    Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
    , Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    , Emmanuel Chabrier
    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic music composer....
    , Émile Paladilhe
    Emile Paladilhe

    ?mile Paladilhe was a France composer of the late Romantic music period....
    , Ernest Chausson
    Ernest Chausson

    Am?d?e-Ernest Chausson was a France Romantic music composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish....
    , Alfred Bachelet, Henri Duparc
    Henri Duparc

    Henri Duparc was a French composer of the late Romantic period....
    , Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    , André Caplet
    André Caplet

    Andr? Caplet was a France composer and conducting now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy....
    , Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    , Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen

    Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organ , and ornithology. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 11 and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupr? among his teachers....
    , Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    , Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    , Reynaldo Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn

    Reynaldo Hahn was a naturalization France composer, conducting, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the m?lodie....
    , Erik Satie
    Erik Satie

    Alfred ?ric Leslie Satie was a France composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie....
    , Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    , Joseph Canteloube
    Joseph Canteloube

    Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret was a France composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region....
    , Manuel Rosenthal
    Manuel Rosenthal

    Manuel Rosenthal was a France composer and conducting. He was born out of wedlock, to Anna Devorsosky, a Russian woman, and to a French father....
    , and Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
    . Malcolm Martineau
    Malcolm Martineau

    Malcolm Martineau is a Scotland pianist....
     (piano) Onyx Classics ONYX4030


External links

  • has much of the information you might need to know.
  • The site includes some audio clips. The design of this site is rather quirky so you may have to rummage around a bit.
  • The site includes a large photograph.
  • has a biography and discography of her two Sony releases.
  • The New York Times
    The New York Times

    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
      NYT current and archive articles
  • 2001 interview
  • by Bruce Duffie