Susan Chilcott
'Susan Chilcott caught beautifully the intensity, coloured by a naive optimism, which is at the heart of Jenufa's character' - Rex Harley, Music & Vision One of England's leading opera singers, the soprano Susan Chilcott, died of breast cancer on 4 September 2003, aged 40. Born on 8 July 1963, Susan Chilcott began singing lessons when she was six years old, later studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Mollie Petrie. She made her professional début with Scottish Opera in 1991 as Frasquita in Carmen. The first big break in her fifteen year career came in Brussels in 1994, singing Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes, for Antonio Pappano at La Monnaie, and this led to a series of engagements in Europe. In April 2002 she made her début at the New York Met as Helena in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, and in June 2002 she sang as Lisa alongside Placido Domingo and Josephine Barstow in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades making her Covent Garden début. Although she made few recordings, Susan Chilcott's recent CD of Copland songs with pianist Iain Burnside, The Gift to be Free, will be released on the Black Box label this autumn.
Posted: 11 September 2003
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