| Code | DS/UK/4503 |
| Name | Adams; Suzanne (28 November 1872-5 February 1953); American lyric coloratura soprano singer |
| Dates | 28 November 1872-5 February 1953 |
| Gender | Female (cisgender) |
| Place of Birth/Origin | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (born) |
| Relationships | Daughter of John Gedney Adams
Spouse of John Lumsden Mackay (m.1915)
Former spouse of Leo Stern (cellist - m.1898) |
| Biography | Suzanne Adams was an American lyric coloratura soprano. Adams first became well known in France before establishing herself as one of the Metropolitan Opera's leading sopranos at the beginning of the twentieth century.
She made her début at the Paris Opéra in the 1890s in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. She remained at the Paris Opera for three years and then went to Nice. While in France, she sang numerous roles by Gounod and Meyerbeer, as well as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute and the title role in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. During 1898, she appeared at Covent Garden in London as Hero in the world premiere of C. V. Stanford's Much Ado About Nothing. Later that year she joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. |