Met Opera star Susanna Phillips to perform in Ridgewood
Friday December 13, 2013, 5:36 PM
INTERVIEW BY GLORIA GEANNETTE
MANAGING EDITOR
The Ridgewood News
Michael Parloff, longtime Principal Flute at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, is presenting his latest Parlance Chamber Concert on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 4 p.m. at West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood. Here he gives our readers background to the concert.
It is an pleasure to introduce soprano Susanna Phillips to Ridgewood’s music lovers. One of today’s fastest-rising young singers, Susanna is a phenomenal soprano, an artist of unusual range and charisma, and a delightful onstage presence. The New York Times’s chief music critic, Anthony Tommasini called her Sept. 25, 2013, Met appearance in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte “exquisite,” saying, “She has the purity and bloom of a Mozart lyric soprano. Yet her voice can lift phrases with penetrating sound and deep richness.”
In recent seasons, Susanna has emerged as one of the Met’s most popular young artists. She is starring this season in three major roles including Fiordiligi in James Levine’s comeback opera, Mozart’s Così fan tutte; Rosalinde in the Met’s new staging of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus as part of the annual New Year’s Eve gala; and Musetta in La Bohème, a reprise of the role in which she made her house debut in 2008.
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