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Susanna Uher Jiménez is an accomplished artist in both
opera and concert. Since moving back to the Bay Area in 2001, Susanna
has performed with Opera San José as Mary Warren (The Crucible),
Adele (Die Fledermaus) and Second Lady (The Magic Flute). Susanna
has also performed Violetta (La Traviata), Despina (Così fan tutte) and
Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus) with Mission City Opera, Hannah (The
Merry Widow) with Lyric Theatre of San Jose, and Gretel (Hansel &
Gretel) with Apollo Touring Company, Festival Opera Walnut Creek
Guild, and Golden Gate Opera.
Susanna first stepped out on to the American opera scene at age 21 when
she made her American debut with Arizona Opera singing Juliette (Roméo
et Juliette) and Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos.) Shortly thereafter, she made
her international debut in Rome, Italy as Norina (Don Pasquale.) Other
favorite roles she has performed include: Susanna (The Marriage of
Figaro), Musetta (La Bohème), Rita (Donizetti’s Rita), Lucia (The Rape
of Lucretia), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Elisetta (Le Matrimonio
Segreto),
Dalinda (Ariodante), Geraldine (A Hand of Bridge), and Susanna (Wolf - Ferrari’s Il Segreto di Susanna.)
Equally at home on the concert stage, Susanna has coached and performed art songs with Marilyn Horne and Warren Jones. She
was featured in concert at the Boston Hatch Shell sponsored by Boston’s classical radio station WCRB, and also for the
International Convention of Libraries held at the Boston State House. As a guest artist Susanna has performed with various
orchestras and churches in California, Virginia and Boston. Recently, Susanna was soprano soloist for Mozart’s Requiem in
Berkeley, and soprano soloist for Schubert’s Mass in G for Boston’s famed King’s Chapel Music Series directed by Daniel
Pinkham.
Susanna has received several awards and scholarships, and has won and placed in numerous competitions including The Florida
Grand Opera Vocal Competition, The MacAllister Awards Competition, The Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, and
The NATS Vocal Competition. She was a Young Artist at Music Academy of the West and received a Bachelor of Music from
University of the Pacific, and a Master of Music from New England Conservatory both in Vocal Performance.
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