Susan Larson

Susan Larson (born 1944) is an American soprano opera singer and author. Larson was born in New Rochelle, New York and she graduated with a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University^[which?] in 1965. She received a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory in 1969.

Career highlights

Charter member, Emmanuel Music, Boston
Appearances with Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Ravinia, St. Louis and Bethlemehm Bach Festivals, Monadnock Music Festival, Pepsico SummerFare Festival, Theater der Welt Festival
Member, Liederkreis Quartet (Naumburg Foundation Award for chamber music, 1980)^[1]
Peter Sellars production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Manchester NH 1980, role of Donna Elvira
Peter Sellars production of Handel's Saul, 1981, role of Michal
American Repertory Theater, Handel's Orlando, 1982, role of Dorinda
American Repertory Theater, Rodgers & Hart's The Boys from Syracuse, 1983 (Best Actress in a Musical, Boston Theatre Critics Circle)
Theater der Welt prize awarded for Sellars' production of Così fan tutte 1989
Opera Company of Boston, Robert DiDomenica's "The Balcony," (role of Carmen) in Boston and at the Bolsoi in Moscow
She has published two novels: Sam (a pastoral) and The Murder of Figaro
Member, Board of Directors, Guerilla Opera

London Records CDs of Così fan tutte (as Fiordiligi), Le nozze di Figaro (as Cherubino), and Giulio Cesare in Egitto as Cleopatra
Liebeslieder Waltzer (Brahms) with Liederkreis Quartet, "A Samuel Chapter" (John Harbison)
Emmanuel Music, Schütz motets

"Mirabai Songs" (John Harbison)
"On This Most Voluptuous Night" (Yehudi Wyner)
Carmen, in Robert DiDomenica's operatic adaptation of Jean Genet's The Balcony, with the Opera Company of Boston (1990).