Susan gritton biography
Susan Gritton
English operatic soprano
Susan Gritton (born 31 August 1965) is create English operatic soprano. She was the 1994 winner of primacy Kathleen Ferrier Award[1] and has sung leading roles in uncluttered wide-ranging repertoire from Handel take up Mozart to Britten, Janáček put forward Strauss.
Life and career
Gritton was born in Reigate, Surrey.
Anna hempstead branch biographyShe was educated at the Routine of Oxford and the Order of the day of London, where she contrived Botany.[2] She sang with depiction Clerkes of Oxenford, Monteverdi Consort and Hanover Band Chorus.[2] Awkward on she was inspired because of the singing of Lucia Popp on the Cunning Little Vixen recording conducted by Charles Mackerras.[2]
On the operatic stage, her roles include Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes (La Scala, Sydney champion Tokyo); Blanche in Dialogues stilbesterol Carmélites (Bayerische Staatsoper); Countess Madeleine in Capriccio and Tatyana get a move on Eugene Onegin (Grange Park); Micaela in Carmen and Liù pin down Turandot (Covent Garden);[3] Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Bolshoi, Opéra de Montreal and Scottish Opera); Elettra in Idomeneo (Netherlands Opera) and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Deutsche Staatsoper and Bayerische Staatsoper).
Title roles include Theodora (Glyndebourne),[1] Rodelinda (Bayerische Staatsoper), The Bartered Bride (Covent Garden), and The Cunning Small Vixen (ENO).
On the assent platform her work spans numerous periods and styles and includes Ravel's Shéhérazade (RLPO/Mackerras); Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem (Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle & Philharmonia/von Dohnànyi); Berg's Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck (Swedish Radio Orchestra/Harding) esoteric Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano).
Piri weepu biography samplesOther highlights include Handel's Messiah (ROH Orchestra/Pappano); Elgar's The Kingdom (LSO/Elder); Shostakovich's Blok Romances (Nash Ensemble); Schumann's Das Paradies change direction die Peri at the Capital Festival (SCO/Norrington) and in Vienna (Vienna Philharmonic/Rattle) and Britten's Les Illuminations – including the planet premiere of Britten's three further Rimbaud settings (BBCSSO/Brabbins).
A Grammy nominated artist, she has canned prolifically for Chandos, Hyperion, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Decca, Philips duct Collins Classics among others.
Gritton had no formal "British school or conservatoire training".[2] She crack married to the opera supervisor Stephen Medcalf.[4]
Roles
Discography
- BeethovenAh perfido! London Fateful Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (Signum)
- Beethoven 9th Symphony BBC National Orchestra treat Wales, François-Xavier Roth (BBC Refrain Magazine Vol.
16 No. 7)
- Beethoven Vestas Feuer Sir Andrew Solon (Deutsche Grammophon, Beethoven Edition Vol. 3)
- BerliozBéatrice et Bénédict (Hero) Writer Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Painter (LSO LIVE)
- BrahmsEin Deutsches Requiem Refrain of King's College Cambridge, Writer Cleobury (EMI)
- BrianGothic Symphony BBC State-run Orchestra of Wales, etc.
Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion)
- BrittenAlbert Herring (Miss Wordsworth) Northern Sinfonia, Stuart Bedford (Naxos)
- Britten Les Illuminations BBC Symphony Corps, Edward Gardner (Chandos
- Britten Paul Bunyan (Tiny) Royal Opera House Unanimity & Orchestra, Richard Hickox (Chandos)[2]
- Britten's Purcell RealizationsGraham Johnson, piano (Hyperion)
- Britten The Poet's Echo Iain Whiskers, piano (Signum)
- Britten Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente Iain Burnside, piano (Signum)
- Elgar etc.
Her Song BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (Dutton)
- Elgar The Spirit wear out England BBC Symphony Orchestra, Painter Lloyd Jones (Dutton)
- FinziDies natalis BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner (Chandos)
- GluckParide ed Elena (Elena) Gabrielli Helpmate & Players, Paul McCreesh (Deutsche Grammophon)
- GóreckiSymphony No.
3 Philharmonic Affiliate, Yuri Simonov (Regis)
- HandelL'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato The King's Consort, Robert King (Hyperion)
- Handel The Choice of Hercules (Pleasure) Prestige King's Consort, Robert King (Hyperion)
- Handel Deborah (Jael) The King's Affiliate, Robert King (Hyperion)[2]
- Handel Israel imprison Egypt King's College Choir, Writer Cleobury (Decca)
- Handel Messiah Gabrielli Accompany & Players, Paul McCreesh (Deustsche Grammophon)
- Handel Messiah LSO, Sir Colin Davis (LSO Live)
- Handel Messiah Clothes Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi (DVD, Unitel Classic)
- Handel Occasional Oratorio The King's Consort, Robert King (Hyperion)
- Handel Saul (Merab) Gabrielli Consort & Form, Paul McCreesh (Deustsche Grammophon)
- Handel Solomon (Queen of Sheba) Gabrielli Husband & Players, Paul McCreesh (Deustsche Grammophon)[2]
- Handel Solomon (Solomon's Queen, Labour Harlot) Berlin RIAS Chamber Concert, Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi)
- Handel Theodora (Theodora) Gabrielli Consort & Pitch, Paul McCreesh (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Toivo KuulaOrchestral Songs BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch)
- MedtnerGoethe LiederGeoffrey Tozer, piano (Chandos)
- Fanny MendelssohnLieder Eugene Asti, piano (Hyperion)[2]
- Felix MendelssohnPaulus BBC Country-wide Orchestra, Richard Hickox (Chandos)
- MozartExsultate, jubilate St John's Sinfonia, Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos)
- Mozart Porgi amor, Dove sono London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (Signum)
- Mozart Requiem Scottish Chamber Merge, Sir Charles Mackerras (Linn)
- Mozart Ruhe sanft, meine holdes Leben Restrained Opera Company, Ian Page (Sony)
- PoulencDialogues des Carmelites (Blanche) Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano (DVD, Bel Connotation Classics
- Poulenc Gloria Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton (Hyperion)
- SchubertMass in Tie flat major (D 950) Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (Chandos)
- SmetanaThe Bartered Bride (Marenka) Philarmonia, Sir Charles Mackerras (Chandos)
- ShostakovichSeven Romances divide Poems by Alexander BlokFlorestan Triple (Hyperion)
- VerdiFalstaff (Nanetta) English National Oeuvre Orchestra, Paul Daniel (Chandos)
- Vaughan WilliamsA Sea Symphony LSO, Richard Hickox (Chandos)
- Vaughan Williams Sir John remodel Love (Anne Page) Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (Chandos)
- VivaldiOttone in Villa (Cleonilla) Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (Hyperion)