Production History
The German premiere was 1959 at the Theater Oberhausen. The Kammeroper in Vienna produced the opera in 1996 with Canadian Desmond Byrne as Blitch. Deutsche Oper Berlin premiered their production in 1997 with American bass-baritone Dean Petersen in the role of Blitch. The Theater Hagen mounted a production of Susannah in the Spring of 2012.
In 2010, with a cast including Latonia Moore as Susannah and James Morris as Blitch, the opera of Bilbao, Spain produced Susannah conducted by John Mauceri with the Robert Falls production premiered in Chicago but also produced at the Metropolitan Opera New York.
The opera's UK premiere was as a community project directed by John La Bouchardiere at mac (Birmingham) in 1996. In November 2001 AAC presents Opera for All put on 4 performances of Susannah at the Sir Richard Eyre Theatre in Willesden, London NW10. The first fully professional production in the UK was by English Touring Opera in 2008.
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