Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as an “artist ready for the big time,” soprano Susannah Biller was a member of the prestigious Adler Fellowship Program with San Francisco Opera. While in San Francisco, she was seen as Frasquita in Carmen, Lolita in the world premiere of John Harbison's Heart of a Soldier, Kristina in The Makropoulos Case and Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor. Additional productions with San Francisco Opera include Der Ring des Nibelungen, Serse and Werther. The 2020-2021 season’s engagements included Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra as well as cancelled or postponed performances as the Mother in Woman with Eyes Closed with Opera Philadelphia, Amalia in She Loves Me with Madison Opera, Violetta in La Traviata with the Chattanooga Symphony, and Micaela in Carmen with Opera Colorado. This season and beyond sees her as Amalia in She Loves Me with Madison Opera, Micaela in Carmen with Opera Colorado, and making her debut with Opera Philadelphia. Biller’s 2019-2020 season included the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with Florentine Opera as well as cancelled performances of Dona nobis pacem with the Chattanooga Symphony and Carmina burana with the Memphis Symphony. Engagements for 2018-2019 included the revival of her Kitty Packard in Dinner at Eight in her Wexford Festival debut as well as the title role in Madame White Snake on tour with Beth Morrison Projects for the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Musetta in La bohème with Austin Opera, and a return to Opera Theatre of St. Louis as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Biller’s 2017 2018 season included Norina in Don Pasquale with Minnesota Opera, Lieschen in Der Ring des Polykrates with The Dallas Opera, Nanetta in Falstaff with Opera Colorado, and her role debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with Des Moines Metro Opera. Other recent performances include joining Beth Morrison Projects for the title role in Madame White Snake; San Diego Opera as Clorinda in La Cenerentola and Garcias in Don Quichotte; Minnesota Opera as Kitty Packard in the world premiere of Dinner at Eight; Opera Theatre of St. Louis as Fraulein Burstner/Leni in The Trial by Philip Glass, Costanza in Riccardo Primo, and Adina in L’elisir d’amore; Arizona Opera as Rosalba in Florencia en el Amazonas and Marie in La fille du regiment; Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Adina in L’elisir d’amore; Des Moines Metro Opera as Eurydice in Orphée et Eurydice; Portland Opera as Adele in Die Fledermaus; and Nashville Opera as Mica in Carly Simon’s Romulus Hunt. As Selena in the world premiere of Dolores Claiborne with San Francisco Opera, Biller received multiple accolades for her work in this role including from the San Francisco Chronicle, which hailed her “bright toned, poignant Selena; her aria during the eclipse garnered a well-earned explosion of applause” and Opera Now, who acclaimed her as “hugely impressive” with “crystalline soprano and limpid tonal production.” Other notable performances include her debut with Portland Opera as Nanetta in Falstaff, her role debut as Despina in San Francisco Opera's production of Così fan tutte for which ARThound hailed her as one of the “clear stand-outs” who “literally glows on stage and managed to grab the limelight through the entire performance,” Eritea in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera, her New York Debut as Fortuna in Christopher Alden's new production of Il sogno di scipione with Gotham Chamber Opera, and productions of Nixon in China and Die Zauberflöte with San Francisco Opera. Ms. Biller debuted with Ensemble Parallele as Eurydice in the award-winning production of Philip Glass' Orphée, and also with Opera Santa Barbara as Serpina in La serva padrona. She celebrated major success in the 2009 San Francisco Opera Merola Program performing in the Schwabacher Scenes Concert as Musetta in La bohème, Euridice in Orfeo, Monica in The Medium, and Elvira in L'italiana in Algeri.
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