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The Swedish soprano, Susanna Andersson, received her education at the Ljungskile College Institute before moving to London where she was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1999-2005). In 2003 she graduated from their opera course with First Class Honours. On May 12, 2003, she won the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Gold Medal Competition after the final performance at the Barbican Theatre, London. After performing pieces such as Debussy’s Pantomime and Clair de lune to piano and the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, she was announced as the winner. Her other Awards and prizes include: Finalist at The Young Kathleen Ferrier Award (2000); Semi-finalist at The International Mozart Competition (2001); Sigrid Paskells Scholarship for the Performing Arts (2004); Song Prize at The Kathleen Ferrier Awards (2004).
In 2004 Susanna Andersson chosen as the soloist for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where she performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Among the pieces she performed was Proserpine by Joseph Martin Kraus. Since May 2005, she is a free-lance opera singer. Her debut performance was in 2005 and she played Zerlina in the Grange Park Opera’s staging of Don Giovanni. In 2006 and 2007 she was the only singer chosen for the ECHO Rising Stars series at the Barbican Theatre, and she gave recitals with her pianist Eugene Asti in London, New York, Athens, Amsterdam, Birmingham (UK), Brussels, Stockholm, Cologne and Vienna.
Stage roles include: Atalanta in George Frideric Handel's Xerxes (GSMD); The Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Oxford Philharmonic, 2006); Lucia in Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia (Nurnberg KammerMusikFestival, 2003); Florain Benjamin Britten's Turn of the Screw (Nurnberg KammerMusicFestival, 2004); Philline in Mignon (GSMD, 2005); Therese in Les Mamelles de Tiresias (GSMD); Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Guildhall, 2004); Adina in L'Elisir d'amore (Staatstheater, Nurnberg, 2006); Giannetta in The Elixir of Love (2007, Opera North); Echo in Echo and Narcissus, The Lindbury Theatre at Covent Garden (2007); Papagena in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (2007, English National Opera); Die Freudin in Von heute auf morgen (2008, Oper Leipzig); Blondchen in W.A. Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2008, Oper Leipzig); Servilia in W.A. Mozart's La clemenza di Tito (2008, Oper Leipzig); Valencienne in The Merry Widow (2008, Oper Leipzig); Papagena in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (2008, Oper Leipzig); Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (2008, Oper Leipzig); Venus/Gepopo in Le Grand Macabre (2009, English National Opera); Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera (2013, Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires). |
