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Susanne

 Mentzer

mezzo-soprano

American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer has established herself not only as an international singer but also as a writer, teacher and arts advocate. She enjoys a significant opera, concert, chamber music and recital career of over thirty years appearing on four continents with nearly every great opera house and orchestra. She has been a guest artist at the Metropolitan Opera in leading roles since 1989, most recently as Marcellina in the new production of Le nozze di Figaro in the fall of 2014. She returned to the Met in February and March of 2016. Projects for this season include Grandmother Buryja in Jenufa with Santa Fe Opera and a much-anticipated role debut with Opera Saratoga.

 

Susanne recently added some new roles to her repertoire; as Mrs. Patrick DeRocher in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, the Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd with Opera Theatre St. Louis and Nellie in Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights, which has also been recorded for commercial release. Operatically, Susanne specializes in the music of Mozart, Berlioz, Rossini, and Richard Strauss and is widely admired as a specialist in trouser roles, most notably for her portrayals of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Idamante in Idomeneo, der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier. She has also appeared in many notable female roles – Dorabella, Despina, Rosina, Adalgisa, and Jane Seymour to name a few.

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