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Born Montrose,

Scottish soprano.

Susan McNaught studied music and art history at the University of Glasgow.  Based in Edinburgh, she continued her vocal training with Irene Drummond.

McNaught has performed with several Scottish operatic organisations:

Edinburgh Grand Opera - Donna Elvire, Lady Macbeth, Frasquita, Ida La Prigione di Edimburgo (Ricci), Violetta. 

Opera Camerata - Nedda, Agathe, Queen of the Night.

Edinburgh Studio Opera - Sesto.

Tayside Opera -  Abigaille.

She has also sung at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and several Wagner and Strauss parts with the Edinburgh Players Opera Group.

Roles in Scotland

Ortlinde a Valkyrie
Valkyrie 2002
Anna Zaccaria's sister
Nabucco 2007
Woglinde a Rhinemaiden
Rheingold 2008
Helmwige a Valkyrie
Valkyrie 2009
Valkyrie 2022
Nedda Canio's wife
Pagliacci 2009
Woodbird
Siegfried 2010
Gutrune a Gibichung, Gunther's sister
Götterdämmerung 2011
Ida secretly married to Giorgio
Prigione di Edimburgo 2011
Woglinde a Rhinemaiden
Götterdämmerung 2011
Fourth Flower Maiden
Parsifal 2012
Frasquita a gypsy, Carmen’s friend
Carmen 2012
Donna Elvira a lady from Burgos
Don Giovanni 2013
Violetta Valéry a courtesan
Traviata 2013
Milliner
Rosenkavalier 2014
Marianne Marianne Leitmetzerin, Sophie's duenna
Rosenkavalier 2014
Voice of a Falcon
Frau ohne Schatten 2015
Guardian of the threshold
Frau ohne Schatten 2015
Freia sister of Fricka and goddess of love and spring
Rheingold 2019
Aïda an Ethiopian slave
Aïda 2022
Abigaille a slave, supposed elder daughter of Nabucco
Nabucco 2025

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