These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Susanna Phillips.

Soprano Susanna Phillips’ 2024/25 season has included engagements with Musica Sacra, Oratorio Society of New York, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. Career highlights include numerous roles at The Metropolitan Opera, with a role debut in 2024 as Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème as well as portrayals including Musetta in La bohème, Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Clémence in The Metropolitan Opera’s 2016 premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin. The New York Times called her performance as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte a “breakthrough night.” She has also performed the role of Stella in a concert staging of Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Renée Fleming and sung leading roles with Boston Baroque.

Dedicated to symphonic works, Phillips has collaborated with orchestras including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as Huntsville Symphony in her native Alabama. Some credits include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Fauré’s and Mozart’s Requiems, and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Her awards include The Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Artist Award (2010), Operalia (First Place and the Audience Prize), The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, the MacAllister Awards, and the George and Nora London Foundation Awards for Singers Competition. She is a graduate of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center and holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from The Juilliard School.