He currently lives in the UK and works freelance internationally having appeared with some foremost UK companies and orchestras including RPO, ENO, WNO, OHP and Scottish Opera. Hailed for his 'rich-toned voice and impressive vocal range', New Zealand born tenor Shaun Dixon studied at Auckland University, the Royal College of Music, National Opera Studio and with the late Luciano Pavarotti. Live opera is one of the most thrilling, life enhancing and thought-provoking art forms and the opportunity to experience it should be available to all. Susan is delighted to be part of this inaugural Opera Festival Scotland concert and applauds its aim to educate, engage and inspire new audiences and performers. This fantastic opportunity to work with Malcolm also introduced Susan to fellow Crear Scholar pianist Robert Melling and they went on to present a number of lieder and song recitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh including Strauss’s Four Last Songs. In 2014, Susan was delighted to be selected by the distinguished pianist Malcolm Martineau to be one of his Crear Scholars. Susan has also appeared on the concert platform with performances as a soprano soloist in a number of choral works and oratorios including Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Brahm’s Requiem and Vaughan William’s Dona Nobis Pacem. Susan has also featured in many of the Edinburgh Players Opera Group performances of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, singing the roles of a Valkyrie, Norn, Rheinmaiden and the Woodbird. For Edinburgh Grand Opera Susan has performed Violetta (Verdi’s La Traviata), Lady Macbeth (Verdi’s Macbeth) and Ida in the UK premiere of Ricci’s La Prigione di Edimburgo. Susan has a wide range and flexible voice and has sung roles as diverse as Queen of the Night (Mozart’s Magic Flute) and Adele (Strauss’s Die Fledermaus), Agathe (Weber’s Der Freischutz) for Opera Camerata and Sesto (Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito) for Edinburgh Studio Opera and Dido (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas). Susan started studying singing and has been fortunate to go on to perform Carmen and many of the great soprano roles for companies in Scotland.
AIDA OPERA FULL
She was immediately hooked and sought out recordings of the full opera which led to a complete love of the whole opera repertoire. Susan was introduced to opera as a teenager when she played the cello part in the Angus Schools Orchestra’s performance of Bizet’s Carmen Suite. (Verdi had been asked to compose an ode for the opening of the Canal, but declined on the grounds that he did not write "occasional pieces".Susan was born in Montrose and grew up taking full advantage of the opportunities provided in the 1980s for young people from all backgrounds to play instruments and join in music ensembles and choirs. Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, nor that of the Khedivial Opera House (which opened with Verdi's Rigoletto) in the same year. Metastasio's libretto Nitteti (1756) was a major source of the plot. One scholar has argued that the scenario was written by Temistocle Solera and not by Auguste Mariette. Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write the opera for performance in January 1871, paying him 150,000 francs, but the premiere was delayed because of the Franco-Prussian War. Aida was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Aida (pronounced ) sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette.
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