Soprano Susanna Phillips has attracted special recognition for a voice of striking beauty and sophistication. A native of Alabama, she has sung leading rôles at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the companies of Birmingham, Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Kentucky, Minnesota, Santa Fe and Utah, among others. In 2009 she received an Alice Tully Vocal Arts Début Recital at Lincoln Center. She has also performed at Carnegie Hall and in recital at the Kennedy Center. In the banner year of 2005, she was the winner of four of the world’s leading vocal competitions: Operalia (both First Place and the Audience Prize), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the MacAllister Awards and the George London Foundation, and has won wide critical and audience acclaim.