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“…it’s Susan Bullock’s Brünnhilde who steals the show, with singing that has psychological depth as well as polish and strength.”
– Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times, 5 March 2007
Susan Bullock is now one of the world’s most sought after dramatic sopranos and in recent seasons she has appeared as Brünnhilde at the New National Theatre, Tokyo; with the Canadian Opera Company; at Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon and most recently at La Fenice. She has performed the role of Isolde in London, Frankfurt, Verona, Leeds and Rouen.
Above all, the role of Richard Strauss’s Elektra has bought Miss Bullock substantial international acclaim, and collaborations with some of the world’s leading conductors, including Bychov, Ozawa and de Waart, and debuts at La Scala, in Dresden, Stuttgart, Florence and Hong Kong.
This season Susan Bullock will make debuts with Washington Opera and Maggio Musicale (Elektra), with Opera de Lyon (Siegfried) and with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Der Ring des Nibelungen) under Adam Fisher. She will return to Oper Frankfurt for Tosca. Future engagements include a return to Covent Garden (Elektra) and a debut at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona (Parsifal). Susan Bullock will also record the role of Salome under Sir Charles Mackerras for Chandos.
Other recent roles have included Marie in Wozzeck at Covent Garden under Daniel Harding, Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) for Bayerische Staatsoper, Lady Macbeth (Bloch’s Macbeth) in Vienna, Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber with Oper Frankfurt, and Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) for English National Opera and the Royal Danish Opera.
Susan Bullock’s concert work has been vast and diverse, and has recently included her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Mark Elder (Hänsel und Gretel); Schoenberg’s Erwartung with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson; the Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia; and with Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra of the Bayerishces Staatsoper. Susan Bullock made her official Wigmore Hall recital debut in 2005.
Her discography includes Genièvre (Chausson’s Le roi Arthus) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein for Telarc; Lady Billows (Albert Herring) with the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox; Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier, and Magda (Menotti’s The Consul) with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra under Richard Hickox, all for Chandos.