SUSAN MORTON, pianist, linguist, conductor, maintains a busy coaching studio in New York City. She has long been associated with Italian opera, language and culture, and has worked both in the US and abroad in diverse opera companies and programs.
Mentoring young singers has become an important part of Susan’s work abroad as well as at home in New York. She is Director/Founder as well of two programs which foster greater professionalism through performances and language training: SingThrough Central, an ongoing role-study score-reading program and its sister project: Festa Lirica Italiana, a full-immersion, intensive role-study and language program during the month of June on the island of Ischia (Italy).
Some of her most recent successes include vocal masterclasses in three cities in Mexico at UDLAP (Puebla), UNICACH (Tuxtla Gutiérrez), and in Mexico City.
Past credits include staff positions at New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, posts at Florida State University, Westminster Choir College, Manhattan School of Music, and the SUNY New Paltz Language Institute, Opera Colorado, Connecticut Opera, Sarasota Opera, Indianapolis Opera, staff coach and recitative seminars for the Martina Arroyo Foundation, IVAI in Chiari, Italy and in Tel Aviv; Amore Opera and other regional operas and universities.
She maintains a private studio in New York and is an active recitalist, appearing frequently in New York City, including numerous appearances at Scorca Hall at the National Opera Center, at Carnegie Hall, at Weill Recital Hall, Trinity Church (Wall Street), in Williamsburg, VA and Hudson, NY. Other credits include the Naumburg Competition at Carnegie Hall, Community Concerts tours of the Southwest United States and concerts in Italy, including in Ischia, Florence, Bergamo and Rome.
OPERATIC REPERTOIRE
Acis and Galatea
Aida
Alcina
Anna Bolena
Ballo in Maschera
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
La Boheme
I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Carmen
Cavalleria Rusticana
Cenerentola
La Clemenza di TIto
Così Fan Tutte
Dido and Aeneas
Don Giovanni
Don Pasquale
L’Elisir d’Amore
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Eugene Onegin
Falstaff
Faust
Fidelio
Gianni Schicchi
Giulio Cesare
Hänsel und Gretel
Idomeneo
L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Iris
L’Italiana in Algeri
Lucia di Lammermoor
Madama Butterfly
Manon
Manon Lescaut
Maria Stuarda
Merry Widow
Nabucco
Norma
Le Nozze di Figaro
Orfeo ed Euridice
Pagliacci
Partenope
I Puritani
Poliuto
Rigoletto
Rodelinda
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria
Semele
Serse
La Serva Padrona
Simon Boccanegra
Suor Angelica
Il Tabarro
Tosca
La Traviata
Il Trovatore
Turandot
Die Zauberflöte
La Zingara
(Ms. Morton also maintains an extensive art song repertoire in Italian, French, German, English and Spanish among other languages, though not detailed here.)