Susanne Rydén, soprano
 The Swedish soloist Susanne Rydén is one of Europe’s foremost sopranos specialising in early music. She performs regularly with internationally acclaimed ensembles and conductors, recent concert seasons having included Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Fransisco, the St. Matthew Passion with the Nederlandse Bachvereiniging, a programme of Handel with Harry Bicket and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm, Bach’s St. Mark Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music at the Easter Festival in Lucerne, Handel’s Messiah with the Bach Collegium Japan under Masaaki Suzuki, concerts with Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Concerto Copenhagen, Mozart Concert Arias with the Australian Brandenburg Baroque Orchestra and Paul Dyer, and European tours with Emma Kirkby as well as Collegium Vocale and Philippe Herreweghe.
Susanne Rydén frequently appears as a guest artist at major European music festivals and concert venues, and her global touring has taken in, for example, Australia, the USA, Japan, Russia and South Africa. She has performed at numerous European opera houses and festivals in roles including Dido, (Dido and Aeneas) and Titania (The Fairy Queen) by Purcell, Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), La Musica (L’Orfeo) and Minerva (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse) by Monteverdi, Eurydice (Orpheus and Eurydice) by Gluck, Dorinda (Orlando), Galathea (Acis and Galathea) and Meleagro (Atalanta) by Handel, and Amahl (Amahl and the Night Visitors) by Menotti. In 2004 she sang the soprano solo in the opera Song of Songs, a role written especially for her by the Swedish composer Hans-Ola Ericsson. She was designer and creator of the elaborately staged performance depicting the life of the Swedish queen Christina’s Journey, which toured Europe between 2004 and 2007. The production was awarded various prizes and Susanne Rydén honoured by the Swedish Early Music Society for her services to early music. A television production of Christina’s Journey was recorded by Swedish television and broadcast on the national network.
Susanne Rydén’s deep fascination with chamber music has led her to explore – with the fortepiano specialist Mark Tatlow – the song repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries. Their first joint recording, Haydn Songs and Cantatas was released in August 2007. Ms Rydén’s many other chamber music partners include Lars Ulrik Mortensen, the Freitagsakademie, and the ensemble Bell’arte Salzburg. The contemporary Swedish composers Kim Hed?s and Hans-Ola Ericsson are presently composing chamber music for Susanne Rydén, and first performances are planned for the spring of 2009.
Susanne Rydén has made numerous recordings for labels including Harmonia Mundi, BIS, Avie, Caprice and cpo Germany, several of which have won awards. Future plans include a second duo-recording with Emma Kirkby and Bell’arte Salzburg, this new CD being due for release in May 2010.
In 2009 Susanne Rydén will be appearing at the Bodensee Festival under the direction of Jaap ter Linden. She will also be performing with the Kölner Akademie at the European Festival at Passau and touring Croatia with the orchestra Musica Florea. The 2009/2010 season will see her appearing at the Schlosstheater Drottningholm and in San Fransisco singing Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando under von Nicholas McGegan, in a Göttingen Handel Festival production from 2008.
Susanne Rydén studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She is now herself in constant demand to teach at music festivals around the world. In 2007 she was appointed member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music.
Opernglas 2008: " In "Amor è qual vento" Susanne Rydén was able to pull out all the stops of her art. In an immaculate, silver-toned soprano she cheekily lamented love’s fickleness."
Goldberg, September 2008: "The Swedish soprano Susanne Rydén captivated her audience.The singer's enchanting presentation of the programme proved an exemplary demonstration of how to keep an audience eating out of
one's hands."
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