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THE SONGBIRD: Susanna Phillips was born in Alabama. She received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School. After completing her master's degree in 2004, she became a member of Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program. In 2005, she joined the Ryan Opera Center for young singers. During her tenure with the program in Chicago she sang Juliette and Rosalinde. Phillips was a national winner in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 2005 (the same year as Lisette Oropesa) and made her Met debut in 2008 singing Musetta. She has returned there often, logging nearly 150 performances across many seasons: Musetta has been her go-to role with 56 performances -- though just this 2023 season she switch to Mimi. Other roles there have included Pamina, Donna Anna, Countess Almaviva, Fiordiligi, Rosalinde, Micaela, and Antonia. In 2010 she won the Met's Beverly Sills Award. Other cities that have heard Phillips include Boston, Minneapolis, and Dallas, and internationally Frankfurt, Barcelona, Stockholm, and Lisbon.

THE MUSIC: Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" has become one of the quintessential operas for a coloratura soprano -- it's one of the most widely produced bel canto operas in the world and the title character is a benchmark role for this voice type. Donizetti composed it in 1835, which was a peak of his artistic and popular success -- Rossini had recently retired, Bellini had just died, and Verdi had not yet had his first premiere ("Oberto" in 1837). The opera premiered in Naples. The plot, based on Walter Scott's novel, in a nutshell: after being tricked into marrying a man she doesn't love, and lied to that her true love has betrayed her, Lucia loses her mind and murders the groom on her wedding night. The mad scene near the end of the opera is justifiably a famous bel canto tour de force, but Lucia's entrance aria and cabaletta is also a haunting showpiece, setting up the dark, gothic mood of the opera and Lucia's borderline bipolar personality, from brooding visions of ghosts ("Regnava nel silenzio") to ecstatic declarations of love ("Quando rapito in estasi").