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Suzanna Perry

Primary Skill:

Soprano

Nationality:

British

Country:

United Kingdom

Languages (fluent):

English, Italian, German, French, Russian, Hebrew

Opera

Giorgetta (forthcoming performance in April 2024)
Il Tabarro (Puccini)
Harrow Opera
2024
Azucena (forthcoming role in July 2024)
Il Trovatore (Verdi)
Brent Opera
2024
Annina
La Traviata (Verdi)
Brent Opera
2023
Second Lady
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Harrow Opera
2023
Mama Lucia
Cavelleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
Southgate Opera
2023
Hata
Bartered Bride (Smetena)
Brent Opera
2022
Donna Elvira
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Felici Opera
2018
Countess Almaviva
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Felici Opera
2017
Ludmilla
The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
Almaviva Opera
1998
1st Witch, Spirit
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Amersham Festival /Iain Ledingham
1997
Mercedes
Carmen (Bizet)
Crouch End Festival Chorus/David Temple
1997
Virgin Mary
Jean d'Arc Au Bucher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) (Honneger)
Crouch End Festival Chorus/David Temple
1997
Belinda
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Palau de la Musica, on tour Catalonia/Nigel Rogers
1995
Second Witch
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Purcell Room/John Toll
1993
Galatea
Acis and Galatea (Handel)
Ivor Evans Singers
1993

Operetta/G&S

Duchess of Plaza Toro
The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Southgate Opera
2023
The Plaintiff
Trial by Jury (Sullivan)
Ivor Evans Singers
1995
Iolanthe
Iolanthe (Sullivan)
Grays G&S
1991

Art Song

Soprano - soloist
Various (Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky)
New Church, Ayot, St Laurence
2022
soprano soloist
Various (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff)
Quaker Meeting House, Welwyn Garden City
2019
1st Soprano Soloist
What 'tis to Love (Sopr & String Orchestra) (Cecilia McDowell)
Abbaye Ensemble
2001
1st Soprano Soloist
Les Nuits d'Ete (Berlioz)
Wyndham Ensemble/Alice Farnham
1996
1st Soprano Soloist
The Rocking Horse Winner (Andrew McBirnie)
Nottingham University
1996
1st Soprano Soloist
That Note You Hold (Sopr & String Septet) (Andrew McBirnie)
Wraysbury Festival
1995
1st Soprano Soloist
Two songs of Gerald Manley Hopkins (Guitar & Sopr) (Reginald Smith Brindle)
Croydon Clock Tower/Greenhouse Ensemble
1995

Oratorio/Concerts

Soprano Solist
National Hospital for Neurology annual concert (Variouus)
Artworkers Guild, Queen Square, London
2022
Concert soloist
CONCERT FOR UKRAINE (Various)
St Andrew's Church, Little Berkhamsted, HERTS
2022
1st Soprano Soloist
Petite Messe Solenelle (Rossini)
Cantate Choir/Robin Walker
2011
1st Soprano Soloist
Judas Maccabaeus (Handel)
Horsley Choral Society/Robin Walker
2005
1st Soprano Soloist
Millenium Mass (Ansdell-Evans)
South London Singers
2001
1st Soprano Soloist
The Spirit of England (Elgar)
Cranleigh School/Richard Mayo
1999
1st Soprano Soloist
Creation (Haydn)
Lewisham Ch. Soc/StefanReid/Blackheath Conc. Hall
1998
1st Soprano Soloist
Solomon (Handel)
Singers of London/Julian Allwood
1998
1st Soprano Soloist
Requiem (Rutter)
London Choral Society/Ronald Corp
1996
1st Soprano Soloist
Hierusalem (Dyson)
London Choral Society/Ronald Corp
1996
1st Soprano Soloist
Exsultate Jubilate (Mozart)
London Choral Society/Ronald Corp
1996

Other

Holocaust Memorial Day Service
Kaddisch and El Male Rachamim (sung in Hebrew) (Ravel)
St Steven's Church, Dulwich
2020
Speaker
Facade (Walton)
Wraysbury Festival/Rumon Gamba
1998
Speaker
Facade (Walton)
Alice Farnham/ChristchurchChelsea
1997
Speaker
Facade (Walton)
Wyndham Ensemble/Alice Farnham
1995

Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled

Suzanna Perry and Richard Perry Traviata Duet Excerpt

Duchess of Plaza Toro in Southgate Opera's Gondoliers 2023

Mama Lucia in Southgate Opera's Cavalleria Rusticana 2023

Suzanna Perry as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) 2018

Suzanna Perry as The Duchess in Southgate Opera's GONDOLIERS February 2023

Suzanna Perry in rehearsal for Puccini's Il Tabarro with Harrow Opera April 2024

Competitions

Hilda Anderson Dean Prize for Historical Performance (Commended) (1996)

Michael Head Prize for 20th Century Song (Very Highly Commended) (1996)

Helen Eames Prize for Early Music (Highly Commended) (1994)

Diploma of Advanced Performance Studies (Voice)
Royal Academy of Music, London
1993–1996
Postgraduate Diploma in Ecotoxicology and Pollution Monitoring
University of Bedfordshire
1990
Biological Science
Kings College, London University
1983–1986

Suzanna studies singing with Cathy Pope. Previously, she studied with Janice Chapman and at the Royal Academy of Music, with Valerie Masterson and Kenneth Bowen.

Operatic roles include Giorgetta in Puccini's Il Tabarro (Harrow Opera), Azucena in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Annina in Verdi's La Traviata and Hata in Smetena's Bartered Bride (for Brent Opera), Duchess of Plaza Toro in the Gondoliers and Mama Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana for Southgate Opera, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni on tour with Felici Opera with a performance at Hatfield House. Countess Almaviva (Rosina) in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro on tour with Felici Opera.
Ludmilla in Smetena’s Bartered Bride (Almaviva Opera) and Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, on tour in Catalonia, Spain, directed by Nigel Rogers.

Oratorio repertoire includes Dyson Hierusalem, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate and Rutter Requiem, (London Choral Society/Ronald Corp). In Honneger’s dramatic oratorio, ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake’, she sang the Virgin Mary (Crouch End Festival Chorus/David Temple).

Suzanna gives regular recitals for the ‘Friends Music’ Series in Welwyn Garden City. She sings with the Ensemble of St Luke’s Quartet in Merseyside, and with Occasional Strings in London and Hertfordshire.

She has sung in masterclasses for Nicolai Gedda, Robert Tear, Jill Gomez, Valerie Masterson, Nigel Rogers and Denis Stevens and has been the featured artist with the North London Philharmonia.

Suzanna balances her opera, oratorio, and recital career with singing teaching, in Hertfordshire, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.






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