Susana Poretsky, a distinguished winner of the Placido
Domingo Operalia Competition, is a Russian born citizen of Israel. Ms.
Poretsky made her American debut at Carnegie Hall in 1993 with
Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra of New York. The same year, she was also
engaged by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra to perform the Jeremiah
Symphony in the "Leonard Bernstein 75th Anniversary". Since
'93, Ms. Poretsky performed the same work with the Bochum Symphony
Orchestra, under Steven
Sloane, in her New York Philharmonic debut under the
baton of Maestro Kurt Masur in 1997 and in 2001 with the L'Orchestre
de Paris.
Her present and future engagements include performances with Placido
Domingo in the Los Angeles and Washington DC Opera Houses
in La Pique Dame; with the IPO as Prinz Orlofsky under
the baton of Zubin Mehta; in the Houston Opera, Texas as
Carmen. Kindertotenlieder with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra,
San Francisco Opera , Rimsky Korsakov’s Mlada under Michael
Tilson Thomas (June 2002). Fenena in Arena di Verona under
Daniel Oren (July 2002). Hamburg Symphoniker under Yoav
Talmi (Nuits d’Ete) (2003), Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (Liturgica
Festival 02-03) Rossini-Stabat Mater (Mo. Aldo Ceccato), Bach-Magnificat
(Mo. Dan Ettinger),
Mozart-Requiem and c minor mass (Mo. Gary Bertini). Suzuki
in Madame Butterfly in LA opera House (February 2004), and
in 2005 in War and Peace at the Opera National de Paris -Bastille
.
During 1995, Ms. Poretsky had her Metropolitan Opera debut
as Maddalena in Rigoletto; her Royal Opera in Stockholm
debut as Charlotte in Massanet's Werther and as
Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma.
In 1998, Ms. Poretsky was a distinguished winner of the
Placido Domingo Vocal Competition “Operalia” and performed with Mr.
Domingo in a concert tour in Japan.
In 1999-2000, Ms Poretsky made her debut with: Theatre
de La Monnaie in the title role of Carmen, Antonio Pappano
conducting; in the Opera Bastille - Paris in Prokofiev's
War and Peace; in Teatro La Scala in Strauss' Ariadne
auf Naxos, under the baton of Maestro Sinopoli, with whom
she also performed at Rome Opera in Goetterdaemmerung.
Susana Poretsky's 2000-2001 season includes a return to France
performing the role of Fenena in Verdi's Nabucco at the Opera
Bastille, Verdi's Requiem in Lille and the New Israeli
Opera's production of Norma and a contemporary Opera "Alpha
and Omega".
Ms. Poretsky performed Penderecki's Requiem and Sanctus
as well as the Bruckner's Te Deum with Maestro Penderecki on
the podium and remains active in the concert hall with some of the world's greatest
conductors, including Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Antonio
Pappano, Guiseppe Sinopoli, Gary Bertini, Yuri Aharonovitch, Sergiu Comissiona,
Frederic Chaslin, Bertrand du Baille.
Ms. Susana Poretsky is represented by Mr.Uri Zur
Mozart - "Laudate" from Messe
in c-moll - performed with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under Mo. Gary Bertini.
-- December 2002
