Susan Quittmeyer

{{short description|American mezzo-soprano (born 1953)}}

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Susan Louise Quittmeyer (born 1953) is an American mezzo-soprano. Raised in Port Washington, New York, she attended Illinois Wesleyan University,{{cite web|url=http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/content/susan-quittmeyer-mezzo-soprano|title=Susan Quittmeyer, Mezzo-Soprano – Mason Gross School of the Arts|publisher=|accessdate=14 January 2017}}

and is a 1978 graduate of the Manhattan School of Music.{{cite web|url=http://www.msmnyc.edu/Offices/Alumni/Virtual-Yearbooks/1990s|title=1990s|first=Manhattan School of|last=Music|publisher=|accessdate=14 January 2017}} She created the roles of Hermione in John Harbison's A Winter's Tale in 1979 and Elmire in Kirke Mechem's Tartuffe in 1980, both for San Francisco Opera's American Opera Project, and sang Ariel in the world premiere of John Eaton's The Tempest in 1985 at Santa Fe Opera.{{cite book|author=Ken Wlaschin|title=Encyclopedia of American Opera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBkKAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-2109-1}} With her husband, the bass-baritone James Morris, she has twin children, Daniel and Jennifer.Kelly, Denis J. [http://newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/news/world-class-singer-charms-audience-wins-two-encores-at-benefit/article_7640743a-1831-57af-b32b-629cc82d94b5.html "World-class singer charms audience, wins two encores at benefit for Warren Public Schools"], Echoes-Sentinel, March 6, 2009. Accessed October 21, 2015. "Acclaimed Metropolitan opera star James Morris, who lives in Warren Township, charmed an audience of more than 250 on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the performing arts center at Watchung Hills Regional High School." A previous marriage ended in divorce.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/04/style/susan-quittmeyer-weds-james-morris.html|title=Susan Quittmeyer Weds James Morris|date=4 January 1987|work=The New York Times|accessdate=14 January 2017}} She made her European debut in 1985 at the Opéra du Rhin as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, and bowed at the Metropolitan Opera as Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in 1987, a performance which also marked the company debut of conductor Charles Dutoit,{{cite web|url=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=290920&limit=50&xBranch=ALL&xsdate=&xedate=&theterm=Quittmeyer,%20Susan%20%5BMezzo%20Soprano%5D&x=0&xhomepath=&xhome=|title=Les Contes d'Hoffmann|first=|last=|publisher=Inmagic, Inc.|accessdate=14 January 2017}} and which was telecast on PBS. In total she performed at the Met 41 times over five seasons.{{cite web|url=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/gisrch2k.r?Term=Quittmeyer,%20Susan%20%5BMezzo%20Soprano%5D&limit=50&vsrchtype=no&xBranch=ALL&xmtype=&Start=&End=&theterm=Quittmeyer,%20Susan%20%5BMezzo%20Soprano%5D&srt=&x=0&xHome=&xHomePath=|title=Susan Quittmeyer at the Metropolitan Opera Archives|first=|last=|publisher=Inmagic, Inc.|accessdate=14 January 2017}} Currently Quittmeyer teaches voice at the Mason Gross School of the Arts.