Underbelly (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
We saw Susan Graham a about three weeks back as she disported herself in a queen-sized bedroom frolic with Renee Fleming, as co-stars in Der Rosenkavalier at Lincoln Center in New York. We were watching from the dress circle which is not exactly New Jersey, but it is a good city block from the stage (my favorite location, as it happens, but that is another story). We saw her last night...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Says mezzo-soprano Susan Graham: "Singing the ('Dido and Aeneas') role will be like drinking a long, cool drink of fresh spring water when you've been surrounded by milkshakes." If versatility is a musical virtue, then mezzo- soprano Susan Graham should be canonized. The 49-year-old Graham's singing résumé reveals an intense desire for tackling...
SFist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Susan Graham will be Dido with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Purcell's Dido and Aenas, photo credit Dario Acosta. Grammy-award winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham just headlined a concert series two months ago with the San Francisco Symphony , which will be released on a CD as part of the SFS Mahler project . She looks back at her Mahler performance here . Obviously,...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"[With] Renée and me, there's no barrier … We can do anything with each other and we don't care. … One of the reviews said we seemed giddy in bed together, and we really were." (She's talking about playing Octavian to Fleming's Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Met; the ex-boyfriend is conductor Edo de Waart.)...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Not unlike the state of Texas, where she grew up, Susan Graham is a large and commanding presence. Tall and physically imposing, she sings with a tonal plushness and theatrical vigor that make every performance a potent spectacle. This week, though, the mezzo-...
dramma per musica (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... [Mariinsky] Best Orchestral Performance Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique – Simon Rattle, conductor; Susan Graham; Berliner Philharmoniker [EMI Classics] Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 – Benjamin Zander, conductor; Philharmonia Orchestra [Telarc] Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé – James Levine, conductor; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Tanglewood Festival Chorus [BSO Classics] Shostakovich: Symphonies...
A Beast in a Jungle (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Our second evening of operas at the Met was Robert Lepage's production of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust. There really aren't enough superlatives to convey the genius of this production. Having seen it, I only wish I had seen the original run with Susan Graham as Marguerite and John Relyea as Mephistopholes . Instead, we had a cast of Olga Boradina (Marguertite) , Ramon Vargas ((Faust)...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Ghislaine Thesmar, Isabella Rossellini, Fanny Ardant, Sofia Coppola, Susan Graham, Andrée Putman, Gérard Depardieu, Riccardo Muti, Françoise Sagan, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giorgio Strehler, Rudolf Nureyev … The career of Jean-Paul Scarpitta – film-maker, opera director, exhibition organiser, portraitist – is a series of famous encounters. Ever the...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The New Mexico-born, Texas-raised mezzo-soprano Susan Graham has many fans. Among them is American housewife extraordinaire, Martha Stewart.The singer and chef met in 2008 when Graham was performing on opening night at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The Met...
The Opera Tattler (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Production Web Site | Press Photographs Interviews of Susan Graham: SFCV | SFist | SF Chronicle Performance Reviews: The Opera Tattler | Mercury News | SF Chronicle
Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... who doesn’t.) Don’t forget the all Purcell evening from San Francisco’s on the 11th at WDCH with Susan Graham, Cyndia Sieden, and Jill Grove.The other major “classical” music event this month will be the kick off of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s on the 21st at WDCH. The program, which runs for a little over two weeks, is under the guidance of composer John Adams and will look at...
