Graham, Susan (1960– )

US mezzo-soprano. She studied in New York and sang first with the St Louis Opera and at Seattle, notably as Massenet's Charlotte. From 1989 she sang Mozart's Annius at Chicago and Dorabella at Santa Fe. Her Carnegie Hall debut was in Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn/The Youth's Magic Horn. She sang the title role in the first US and UK stagings of Massenet's Chérubin (at Santa Fe in 1989, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1993). She has appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera House from 1991 as Cherubino and Ascanio in Berlioz's Les Troyens/The Trojans, and at Salzburg from 1993 as Cecilio in Lucio Silla and Meg Page in Falstaff. Her concerts include Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été/Summer Nights and Beethoven's Ninth. She sang Dorabella and created Goehr's Arianna at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1995.