SearchElizabeth Sutphen recently made her debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018 as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. The 2018-19 season includes her return to Oper Frankfurt as Zerbinetta in their production of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, and as Atalanta in Handel’s Xerxes, as well as her debut with the Houston Grand Opera as Faustina/Angela Tiepolo/Annetta/Louisa Grahl/Brigida Banti in their world premier of The Phoenix written by Tarik O’Regan, with libretto by John Caird who will also direct. Ms. Sutphen’s past two seasons at Oper Frankfurt have included the roles of Lisa in Bellini’s La sonnambula, Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, as well as roles in new productions of Xerxes as Romilda and Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan directed by Brigitte Fassbaender as Tiny Bunyan.
