Alessandro Fisher Susana Gaspar

Portuguese soprano Susana Gaspar’s recent engagements include Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, 1st Nymph in Dvorak’s Rusalka, and La Passion de Simone by Kaija Saariaho, for Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. Also Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata for Nevill Holt Opera, Cio-Cio San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for Diva Opera, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust for Valladolid Opera, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 conducted by Bruno Borralhinho in concerts in Madrid and Galizia, a recording of Portuguese songs by Fernando Lopes-Graça with Nuno Vieira de Almeida, and soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with Hastings Philharmonic.

Susana was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme 2011-13 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, singing Barbarina in Le nozze di Fìgaro, Contessa Ceprano in Rigoletto, Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore, First Innocent Minotaur, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Voce dal Cielo in Don Carlo and Aurore in Le Portrait de Manon (Meet the Young Artists Week).

Susana represented Portugal in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World finals.

Recordings include Portugal Matinas do Natal for Paraty, Fanny Mendelssohn's songs with Malcolm Martineau, opera arias and duets with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Renato Balsadonna, and Semiramide, Le portrait de Manon and Les nuits d’été for Opera Rara.

Awarded a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Associate Artist of The Mozartists and a former member of the BBC’s New Generation Artists Scheme, Alessandro Fisher won First Prize at the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. He read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar at Clare College, furthering his studies at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He made his Salzburg Festival debut as Lucano in L’Incoronazione di Poppea and his operatic engagements have further included Delmiro / Alindo in Hipermestra for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Fabio in Berenice for the Royal Opera, London, the title role in Dardanus for English Touring Opera and Fenton in Falstaff for The Grange Festival.

His recordings include L’Incoronazione di Poppea with Les Arts Florissants on Harmonia Mundi, Bastien und Bastienne with The Mozartists on Signum and Roussel’s Évocations with the BBC Philharmonic on Chandos.

Engagements in 2021/2022 include the Bach's Mass in B Minor with the New London Orchestra, Mendelssohn's Elias at the Badisches Staatstheater Klagenfurt, Monteverdi's Vesperae della beate Vergine with La Nuova Musica at London’s Wigmore Hall, Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 3 and On Wenlock Edge with the BBC Philharmonic, First Brother in The Seven Deadly Sins on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle (London, Cologne, Essen) and a New Generation Artist Recital at Stoller Hall. This is his debut with Opera Rara.