Susan Bickley is a British mezzo-soprano singer who performs in opera, Baroque and contemporary classical music.
These include as Lyudmila in Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Mrs Peacham in The Beggar’s Opera, Old Countess in Shostakovitch's The Nose in 2016 and in 2018/19 both Second Harlot and the Queen of Sheba in Handel's Solomon (in concert) and Marfa in Janáček's Katya Kabanova.
[4] She has performed in ten productions with the English National Opera including the world premieres of Barry's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in 2005, as Detective Inspector Anne Strawson in Muhly and Lucas's Two Boys in 2011 and The Winter's Tale composed by Wigglesworth in 2017.
She appeared with this company also as Herodias in Salome by Richard Strauss, Eduige in Handel's Rodelinda, Mescalina in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Cassandra in Berlioz's Les Troyens and as Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 2020.
[6] In May 2011 she received the Singer Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her performance in live classical music in the UK.