Soprano Susanna Phillips has attracted special recognition for a voice of striking beauty and sophistication. In the banner year of 2005, she was the winner of four of the world's leading vocal competitions: Operalia (both First Place and the Audience Prize), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the MacAllister Awards, and the George London Foundation. She completed the Ryan Opera Center program at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2007.
     In the 2007/08 season, Ms. Phillips will return to Santa Fe Opera as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. She also performed the notoriously difficult role of Elmira in Reinhard Keiser's The Fortunes of King Croesus in her debut with Minnesota Opera, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in her first performances with Utah Opera, Musetta in La Bohème at Madison Opera, and Blanche de la Force in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites at Kentucky Opera. Concert engagements included Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and Handel's Messiah with the Pacific Symphony.
     In summer 2006, Susanna Phillips made her Santa Fe Opera debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, where she appeared again the following summer as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. She also sang the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor in a concert version in her native Huntsville, Alabama. Ms. Phillips performed with the Oratorio Society in last season’s Baroque and Beethoven concerts.