Susan Graham

Born in Roswell, NM, in 1960, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham began her professional operatic and concert career shortly after completing a master's degree in music at the Manhattan School of Music. A participant in the San Francisco Opera's Merola young artists' program and a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, she quickly gained a foothold in the major performing venues in the United States, including the Santa Fe Opera (Dorabella in Così fan tutte), St. Louis Opera (Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa), Chicago Lyric Opera (Annius in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito), and Seattle Opera (Charlotte in Massenet's Werther and Stephano in Gounod's Roméo et Juliet). In 1989 she made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and sang the title role in the first American and British stagings of Massenet's Chérubin. Her Metropolitan Opera debut was in the 1991-1992 season, during which she sang Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Tebaldo in Verdi's Don Carlos. During the 1990s, Graham established herself as an artist of international caliber, and added the opera houses of San Francisco, Lyon, Salzburg, Covent Garden, and Vienna to her... Read more >>