Susan Bullock
soprano
© Frances Marshall
Susan Bullock's back in Frankfurt, where she appeared in new productions as Magdelone in Carl Nielsen’s Maskerade, Emilia Marty (The Makropoulos Case), Els (Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber / The Treasure Hunter) and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) to repeat her gripping portrayal of Clytemnestra in our new Elektra. Once heard, her portrayal of Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen was never forgotten, a role she sang in Frankfurt (available on CD & DVD), the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Opéra de Lyon, in Australia and Tokyo. The title role in Elektra was central to her career as a dramatic soprano, a role with which she thrilled audiences in Frankfurt, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala Milan, Washington National Opera, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Royal Opera House in London, in Toulouse, Dresden, Stuttgart and Hong Kong. She sang her first Clytemnestras at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. Other new roles in recent seasons have included the Mother in Mark Anthony-Turnage’s Greek at Scottish Opera and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, Kostelnička (Jenůfa) at Grange Park Opera and Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Gertrude & The Witch (Hänsel und Gretel) at Opera North, Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd) at Houston Grand Opera, Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle) and the Mother in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at Scottish Opera and the Edinburgh Festival. Susan Bullock was made a »Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire« in 2014.