Winner of the 1994 Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize, Susan Gritton read Botany at Oxford and London Universities before taking up a career in singing. She made her operatic début as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne, subsequently returning as Susanna in the same opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring. Other appearances include Romilda in Xerxes and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; and Tiny in Paul Bunyan, Marenka in The Bartered Bride, First Flowermaiden in Parsifal and Euridice in Orfeo for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

She is a Company Principal at the English National Opera where her repertoire includes...