[This is part of a series profiling the artists making their COC debuts in the 2011/2012 season]
"The American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham has for the better part of a decade impressed audiences with her creamy singing and chiseled characterizations..." – The New York Times
Name: Susan Graham
Range: Mezzo-soprano
Where she's from: Midland, Texas (where Sept. 5 has been declared "Susan Graham Day" in perpetuity)
What she's singing: Iphigenia in Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris, at the COC from Sept. 22 to Oct. 12
Where she's been: Iphigenia in Iphigenia in Tauris at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and Teatro Real Madrid.
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Watch and Listen
In the video below, she sings "Parto, parto" (from Mozart's La clemenza di Tito) at a 2006 Metropolitan Opera gala:
Here she is with Renee Fleming and Thomas Hampson, in a chat about auditions. She relates how she once forgot the words (twice) to "Parto, parto" while auditioning for Lotfi Mansouri:
A video of Susan Graham singing "Ave Maria" at U.S. senator Edward M. Kennedy's funeral mass cannot be embedded, but can be viewed here.
And, for something a little different: here she is on the Martha Stewart show! It's in two parts:
Top Photo: Susan Graham. Photo © Dario Acosta
Middle Photo: Susan Graham in a scene from Iphigenia in Tauris at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Photo by Dan Rest © 2006
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Sara Fulgoni in the COC production of Bluebeard's Castle. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2001