Susan Gritton studied botany at Oxford and London Universities and won the 1994 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize.
Her operatic engagements have included Liù (Turandot), Micäela (Carmen) and Mařenka (The Bartered Bride) for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Romilda (Xerxes), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) and the title role of ‘Rodelinda' at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) for Opera Australia and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) for the Opéra de Montréal. She has sung the title role in ‘Theodora' at the Glyndebourne Festival; Countess Madeleine (Capriccio) for Grange Park Opera and her many roles at the English National Opera have included Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Fiordiligi and the title role in 'The Cunning Little Vixen'. She has also sung in innovative staged performances of Sibelius' ‘Luonnotar' in London; Honegger's 'Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher' in Rome and Handel's ‘Messiah' in Vienna.
Her plans include; Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and Ellen Orford at La Scala, Milan.
In concert, her recent engagements include Marie Wozzeck fragments with Harding/Swedish Radio Orchestra; Brahms' Requiem and Debussy's Le Martyre de San Sebastian with Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic; Handel's Messiah with Sir Colin Davis/LSO and Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher with Pappano/Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
A Grammy nominated artist, she has recorded prolifically.
