Susanna Phillips Huntington

Alabama-born soprano Susanna Phillips continues to establish herself as one of today’s most sought-after singing actors and recitalists. Ms. Phillips is a recipient of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera’s 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award and holds both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School. Ms. Phillips has sung leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera for since 2009 in the roles of Musetta, Pamina, Donna Anna, Rosalinde, Antonia/Stella, Micaëla, Donna Elvira, and Countess Almaviva. Role highlights at the Met Opera include Fiordigili, which The New York Times called a “breakthrough night”, and Clémence in the company’s premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s “L’amour de Loin”. Highly sought after by the world’s most prestigious orchestras, Ms. Phillips has appeared with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is dedicated to oratorio works with credits including Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, and the Fauré and Mozart Requiems.  

An avid chamber music collaborator, Ms. Phillips has worked frequently with pianists Myra Huang and Craig Terry. Together they have performed solo recitals all over the United States. Other career highlights include the title role in “Agrippina” with Boston Baroque, Stella in Previn’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” opposite Renée Fleming, Birdie in Blitzstein’s “Regina”, Rose in the world premier of Picker’s “Awakenings”, and singing at the Washington Performing Arts in a program co-curated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Most recently, Ms. Phillips debuted the US Premiere of Moravec’s “A Nation of Others” with The Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall.