Susan Bickley is firmly established as one of the most versatile mezzo-sopranos of her generation, equally at home in the opera house or on the concert platform, with a wide repertory encompassing the Baroque, the great nineteenth-and twentieth-century dramatic rôles and the music of today. She has performed on many great opera stages of the world in her signature rôles, which include Kostelnička (Jenůfa), Kabanicha (Katya Kabanová), Herodias (Salome), Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Dido (Dido and Aeneas) and Irene (Theodora). On the international concert platform she has performed with all of the major British symphony orchestras and ensembles, as well as with Les Arts Florissants, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and the NDR Hannover. She has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms, and Edinburgh International Festival. Her discography includes works by Purcell, Handel, Stravinsky, Bach, Judith Weir, Thomas Ades and George Benjamin for labels such as EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion and Deutsche Grammaphone.