Susanne Mentzer

American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer has established herself not only as an international singer but also as a writer, teacher and arts advocate.

Susanne continues to perform concert chamber music, most recently commissioning 21 songs from a diverse group of composers for a project called Standing Still: Still Standing, on poems written during the pandemic by her life-partner Reg Huston.

With fifty operatic roles performed and over 25 recordings, Susanne retired from the opera stage in August 2022. She had a significant opera career of forty-two years appearing on four continents with nearly every great opera house and orchestra. She was a guest artist at the Metropolitan Opera in leading roles from 1989-2016.