Susanne Mentzer

Susanne Mentzer has become one of today’s foremost mezzo-sopranos. She is widely admired as a specialist in trouser rôles, most notably for her portrayals of Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) and The Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and also specialises in the music of Mozart, Strauss, and the bel canto repertoire. She enjoys a significant concert and recital career, with a particular interest in chamber music, and is known as an interpreter of the vocal works of Mahler and a proponent of women’s music. Susanne Mentzer has appeared at nearly every great opera house and with major orchestras, under the batons of Muti, Masur, Mackerras, Colin Davis, Bonynge, Dutoit, Mehta, Sinopoli, Ozawa, Marriner, Haitink, Chailly, Abbado, Eschenbach, Boulez, Norrington, Sawallisch, and others. She also has appeared in many productions of the late director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, whom she considers one of her great influences, and with the late Giorgio Strehler at La Scala. Her extensive discography includes two recitals she often performs in concert: The Eternal Feminine, a recital of music by women composers, which includes the première of Libby Larsen’s Love After 1950 with her long-time pianist, Craig Rutenberg; and her personal favourite, Wayfaring Stranger, a collection of international folk-songs arranged for voice and guitar, with Grammy Award winning Sharon Isbin. Susanne Mentzer has established herself as a pedagogue,

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Susanne Mentzer