Susan Gouthro

Dr. Susan Gouthro is an Assistant Professor of Voice. For over a decade she was engaged as a soprano soloist on a full-time contract at the opera house in Kiel, Germany. Here she performed many of the most important roles in the lyric soprano repertoire including Mozart roles Pamina, Queen of the Night, Donna Anna, and Fiordiligi; French roles Micaela, Marguerite, Antonia, and Manon; and Italian roles Liu, both Mimi and Musetta, and Violetta. Her diversity extends to German operetta (Hanna Gawari in The Merry Widow and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus) and the first forays into Wagner’s operas with Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Czech roles that round out this singer’s repertoire are the title roles in The Cunning Little Vixen and Rusalka, as well as Marie in The Bartered Bride.

During this time, Susan Gouthro had many opportunities to perform as a guest at other German houses including the opera companies in Cologne, Würzburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Dessau, Hagen, and Kassel. An avid concert and recital performer, she performed in many oratorios and
was a featured artist in diverse Lieder Abende and chamber music concerts. In the 2015/2016 season, Susan Gouthro was celebrated as the opera-diva Carlotta in the musical The Phantom of the Opera in Germany, singing eight shows a week for a total of over 300 performances in a production that was cast and rehearsed by the creative team from Phantom on Broadway.

Having studied and performed contemporary music at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, The Britten-Pears School in England, and on the opera stage in Germany, Susan Gouthro has been lately delving into new music from her home county Canada. Researching and performing music by living composers has become one of her passions.