After studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Suzanne was quickly engaged by the Theater Aachen, where she remained a permanent member of the ensemble until the 2023/24 season.
Suzanne has explored a broad repertoire, performing varied roles such as Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Maria in West Side Story, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, and Despina in Così fan tutte. She has also portrayed Bellezza in Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, the title role in La Calisto, and Helena in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. During her last two seasons at Aachen, she played major roles such as Manon in Massenet's eponymous opera, Mimì in La Bohème, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, and the Contessa di Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims.
In parallel with her engagement at Aachen, Suzanne participated in several international competitions and festivals. A finalist at the International Baroque Opera Singing Competition "Pietro Antonio Cesti", she was invited by the Innsbruck Early Music Festival to perform the title role in Reinhard Keiser's Octavia.
She also made debuts in several prestigious opera houses. She performed the First Lady in the French version of Mozart's The Magic Flute, conducted by Hervé Niquet, with appearances at the Opéra d'Avignon and the Opéra Royal de Versailles. She then made her debut at the Opéra National de Lorraine as Morgana in Handel's Alcina, directed by Serena Sinigaglia and conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón. She also played Amore and Valletto in L'incoronazione di Poppea with Ensemble Matheus, conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
At the beginning of the 2020/21 season, Suzanne made a notable entrance at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival as Giuditta in Porpora's Carlo il Calvo, staged by Max Emanuel Cenčić and conducted by George Petrou. This production was later performed in concert at several prestigious venues, including the Theater an der Wien, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and La Scala in Milan.
Alongside her stage performances, Suzanne recorded the title role in Cleofida, Königin von Indien (Handel/Telemann) under the direction of Jörg Halubek with the ensemble Il Gusto Barocco. She also sang Ismene in Schmittbaur's Lindor und Ismene in Cologne with Werner Ehrhardt and Arte del Mondo, and participated in a tour of Purcell's Odes with Damien Guillon and Le Banquet Céleste, performing in venues such as Salle Gaveau in Paris, Nice, Rennes, and Poitiers. She returned to the Theater an der Wien for the roles of Sestia in Hasse's Cajo Fabricio and Lucinda in Caldara's Il Venceslao under the direction of Martyna Pastuszka.
As a soloist, Suzanne has distinguished herself in several major concert works. She has performed Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vesperae solennes de confessore with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Patrick Marco at the Annecy Classic Festival. Her other engagements include Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, Mozart's Great Mass in C minor and Exsultate Jubilate, Brahms' German Requiem, Poulenc's Gloria, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and the role of Angelo in Handel's La Resurrezione. She has also given recitals focused on Mozart and Handel in Avignon and Paris with Julien Chauvin.
At the Klangvokal Musikfestival in Dortmund, Suzanne performed Sophie in Werther with the WDR Funkhausorchester conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, the Angel in Massenet's La Vierge, and a concert dedicated to Porpora under the direction of Ottavio Dantone with the Accademia Bizantina. Recently, she has given baroque recitals with Jörg Halubek and Benjamin Bayl, and performed Agilea in Handel's Teseo at the Halle Handel Festival and Wrocław. She has also sung the title role in Traetta's Rex Salomon at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival under the direction of Christophe Rousset.
In the 2024/25 season, Suzanne will perform the role of the Angel in La Resurrezione at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with Le Concert de La Loge, the role of Zelmira in Armida at the Hans Otto Theater with the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the role of the First Lady in The Magic Flute at the Opéra royal de Versailles with Le Concert Spirituel, and the role of Mimì in La Bohème at the Theater Aachen. At the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music in the summer of 2025, Suzanne will perform the role of Pilade in Traetta's Ifigenia under the direction of Christophe Rousset, and at the 2025 International Handel Festival at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, she will make a role debut as Almirena in a new production of Handel's Rinaldo under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini.
Repertoire
Beethoven
9th Symphony : Soprano
Boesmans
Au monde : La plus jeune fille
Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem : Soprano
Britten
The Turn of the Screw : Flora
A Midsummer Night's Dream : Helena
Caldara
Il Venceslao : Lucinda
Cavalli
La Calisto : Calisto
Handel
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno : Bellezza
Cleofida, Königin von Indien : Cleofida
Alcina : Morgana
Rinaldo 1731 : Almirena
La Resurrezion : Angelo
Teseo : Agilea
Judas Maccabeus : Soprano
Hasse
Cajo Fabrizio : Sestia
Haydn
Armida : Zelmira
Keiser
Octavia : Octavia
Lehár
Die lustige Witwe : Valencienne
Massenet
Manon : Manon
Werther : Sophie
La Vierge : L’Ange
Monteverdi
L'incoronazione di Poppea : Poppea, Amore, Valletto
Mozart
Don Giovanni : Zerlina
Così fan tutte : Despina
Die Zauberflöte : Erste Dame
Le nozze di Figaro : Susanna
Mozart's Coronation Mass : Soprano
Vesperae solennes de confessore : Soprano
Great Mass in C minor : Soprano
Exsultate Jubilate
Offenbach
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein : Wanda
Porpora
Carlo il Calvo : Giuditta
Poulenc
Dialogues des Carmélites : Blanche de la Force
La Voix humaine : La Femme
Gloria : Soprano
Puccini
Suor Angelica : La suora infermiera
Gianni Schicchi : Lauretta
La Bohème : Mimì
Purcell
King Arthur : Philidel
Rossini
Il viaggio a Reims : La contessa di Folleville
Schmittbaur
Lindor und Ismene : Ismene
Smetana
Prodaná nevěsta : Esmeralda
Traetta
Rex Salomon : Rex Salomon
Wagner
Der Ring : Woglinde
