Nora Sourouzian
Mezzosoprano
Welcome!
The stage is where I feel at home, and I invite you to join me and travel through:
different characters and their psychology
experiences and personalities
time and history
gender, different cultures and many corners of this world
and different artistic universes from classic to contemporary going through minimalism and/or/to realism
My voice and musicality support this journey of emotions scripted and portrayed by composer, librettist, artistic team and colleagues on stage.
And full heartedly I add my life experiences and humble understanding of human beings into every note I sing.
Biography
Hailed by Opera for her “warmly-rounded sound with ease and impact at the top” and “crystalline diction,” French-Canadian mezzo soprano Nora Sourouzian opened season 2021/22 with her first Amneris in Aida with Den Jyske Opera after Waldtaube in Gurrelieder with Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester in spring 2021. Before she was Ježibaba in Rusalka with Theater St. Gallen and Opéra National du Rhin and Azucena in Il trovatore at Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken in the 2020/21 season.
She also sang her first performances of Verdi's Requiem with Aarhus Symfoniorkester in November 2019, after a series of Azucena in Il Trovatore with Seattle Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, Aaltotheater Essen, St. Galler Festspiele and Oper Graz. She also made her company debut as Marguerite in La damnation de Faust with Opera Nacional de México at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Nora Sourouzian appeared at Bard Summerscape as Marfa in Dvorak’s Dmitrij, and as Anita in La Navarraise, sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Orchestra Sinfónica de Chile in Santiago, and Frank Martin’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève.
In 2020 she was invited to sing Azucena (Il Trovatore) in South Korea and to tour though Japan with the Bonn Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven’s 9th symphony, Carmen in Carmen at Manitoba Opera; due to the pandemic these performances had to be cancelled.
Known for her numerous interpretations as Carmen in over 20 productions over the globe, Nora Sourouzian now appears frequently in the more dramatic repertoire of Verdi.
Next to come as Eboli in Don Carlo at Aaltotheater Essen (spring 2022) and another Amneris in Aida is lined up for 2023 – place tba.
About
Principessa Eboli in Don Carlo, at Aalto-Musiktheater Essen
May 21st 2022
June 09th and 19th 2022
What's Next
Amneris in Aida, at Burgplatz Open Air 2022 Braunschweig
Performances between June 25th and July 13th 2022
Amneris in Aida, at Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen
My performances: 08.03./14.03./04.04.2023
Repertoire
Bellini | ||
Norma | Adalgisa | Oper Leipzig 2021 (cancelled) |
Berlioz | ||
Damnation de Faust | Marguerite | Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico 2019 Stadttheater Klagenfurt 2005 |
Bizet | ||
Carmen | Carmen | Manitoba Opera 2019/2020 (cancelled) Palm Beach Opera 2015/2016 Theater St. Gallen 2015/2016 Minnesota Opera 2014/2015 Latvian National Opera 2010/2011 & 2012/2013 Teatro Lirico di Cagliari 2011 Teatro Communale di Bologna 2009/2010 Opéra de Lausanne (plus Tourné Japan) 2008/2009/2010 Oper Köln 2009/2010 Oper Leipzig 2009/2010 Teatro Bergammo, Como, Cremona 2008/2009 Den Norske Opera 2006/2007 Opéra de Québec 2005/2006 Oper im Steinbruch St. Margarethen, AT 2005/2006 Stadttheater Klagenfurt 2004/2005 Welsh National Opera 2004/2005 |
Britten | ||
Phaedra | Phaedra | Teatro Communale di Bologna 2006/2007 |
Chabrier | ||
L'Etoile | Aloés | Opernhaus Zürich 2006/2007 |
Daugherty | ||
Jackie O | Maria Callas | Teatro Communale di Bologna, 2006/2007 |
Debussy | ||
Pelléas et Mélisande | Geneviève | Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg 1999/2000 |
Donizetti | ||
La Favorita | Leonore di Guzman | Theater St. Gallen 2013/2014 |
Dubois | ||
Aben Hamet | Zuléma | Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing 2013/2014 |
Dvořák | ||
Dimitrij | Marfa Ivanovna | The Richard B. Fisher Center of Performing Arts Bard, 2017 |
Rusalka | Ježibaba | Theater St. Gallen 2019/2020 Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg 2019/2020 |
Fauré | ||
Pénélope | Pénélope | Wexford Festival Opera 2005 |
Mahler | ||
Symphony N° 3 | Mezzosoprano | Kassel 2000 Orchestra Sinfónica de Chile 2018 |
Massenet | ||
Don Quichotte | Dulcinée | Teatro Massimo di Palermo 2010/2011 |
La Navarraise | Anita | Wexford Festival Opera 2013 The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard 2016 |
Thérèse | Thérèse | Wexford Festival Opera 2013 |
Thais | Myrtale | Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, 2006/2006 |
Werther | Charlotte | Latvian National Opera, Riga 2010/2011 |
Schönberg | ||
Gurrelieder | Waldtaube | Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester 2021 |
Verdi | ||
Aida | Amneris | Den Jyske Opera & Tournée 2021/22 |
Don Carlo | La Principessa Eboli | Oper Burg Gars 2015 Aalto-Musiktheater Essen 2020 (cancelled) & 2021/2022 |
Falstaff | Meg Page | Zaterdaag Matinée Amsterdam 2005 |
Il Trovatore | Azucena | Oper Graz 2018/2019 Aalto-Musiktheater Essen 2018/2019 Royal Danish Opera 2018/2019 Seattle Opera 2018/2019 Theater St. Gallen, Festpspiele 2019 Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken 2020/21 Daegu, South Korea 2020 (cancelled) |
Messa da Requiem | Mezzosoprano | Aarhus Symfoniorkester, Leif Segerstam, 2019 |
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