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unusual facts about Susanna


Shoshana

It is the name of at least two women in the Bible, and via Σουσάννα (Sousanna), it developed into such European names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Suzie and Sanna.


Abel Seyler

-- Possibly a relation to Friedrich Seiler (1642–1708), a reformed theologian in Basel who wrote a book --> His grandmother was Anna Maria Merian (1671–1698) of the patrician Merian family, and her mother Susanna Faesch belonged to the Faesch family, the richest family of Basel.

Anna Christy

Christy sings a variety of lyric roles, such as Susanna, Papagena and Cleopatra, but especially coloratura roles such as Cunegonde in Candide and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera.

Ashby cum Fenby

In the north aisle are monuments to Sir William Wray (d. 1617) and his wife Frances (d. 1647), and to Susanna Drury, sister of Frances.

Bess of Hardwick

She also features prominently in the book The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy, in the short story "Antickes and Frets" by Susanna Clarke, in her 2006 collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare by Arliss Ryan, and is the main character in the Jan Westcott historical/biographical fiction novel The Tower and The Dream.

Brave Gladiators

Susanna Eises, Mammie Kasaona, Mangulukeni Hamata, Lovisa Mulunga, Queen Manga, Lena Noreses, Stacey Naris, Veweziwa Kotjipati, Esty Amukwaya, Tomalina Adams, Bonita, Eixas, Alberta Dawes, Mariana Gaebusi, Lorraine Jossob, Emmerencia Fredericks, Shirley Cloete, Juliana Skrywer and Novata Paulus.

Colette Alliot-Lugaz

Although Mozart would always remain at the core of her repertoire (Susanna, Zerlina), she gradually included roles such as Rosina, Annchen, Véronique, as well as many roles in opera by Monteverdi, Rameau, and Haydn.

Danielle de Niese

At the end of 2006, when De Nederlandse Opera staged the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, de Niese sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Despina in Così fan tutte.

Elizabeth Rayner

Through her sister Susanna Collier, Mrs John Lewis, Mrs Rayner was the great aunt of Peter Burrell Jr., whose second daughter Isabella, married Lord Algernon Percy; Burrell's third daughter, Frances, married Hugh Percy, later 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

Elsie Morison

She was admired for the touching sincerity of her acting and the lyrical warmth of her voice, in such roles as Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Marzelline (Fidelio), Micaela (Carmen), Antonia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Marenka (The Bartered Bride), and Blanche in the British premiere of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 1958.

Forbes Benignus Winslow

His daughter, Susanna Frances, married the humorist Arthur William à Beckett.

Ford, Northumberland

Ford Castle had been rebuilt in the 1760s and, in 1859, Louisa, Marchioness of Beresford inherited Ford Estate on the death of her husband, the 3rd Marquess (who in turn, had inherited it from his mother, Susanna, Marchioness of Waterford).

Francis Hodgson

Her objection was overcome by Byron himself, who drove with Hodgson in a post-chaise from London to Oxford to plead the cause of his friend, with Susanna's brother Charles Hall, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.

Frank Novak

Novak has appeared in numerous theatrical productions including A Cat Among Pigeons, as Lenny in Of Mice and Men for the Santa Susanna Repertory Company, the title role in King Lear at the Basement Theater, and as the mob boss Salvadore Lombardi in Jon Mullich's adaptation of A Servant of Two Masters, set in Prohibition-era Chicago.

Frederick Coyett

Coyett's son Balthasar Coyett, born to his first wife Susanna Boudaens in 1650, followed his father into service with the Dutch East India Company, eventually rising to become the Governor of Ambon.

Heartworn Highways

The end of the movie shows a drinking party that starts Christmas Eve and ends sometime Christmas Day at Guy Clark's house in Nashville with Guy, Susanna Clark, Steve Young, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Jim McGuire (playing the dobro), along with several other guests.

Henry Hanbury-Tracy

Hanbury-Tracy was born at Toddington, Gloucestershire, a younger son of Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, by the Honourable Henrietta Susanna, only child and heiress of Henry Tracy, 8th Viscount Tracy.

Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton

Born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hawkins was the son of John Hawkins, a solicitor, and Susanna, daughter of Theed Pearse.

Hubert Kah

Together with Michael Cretu, Kemmler wrote and produced songs for other artists, including "Dancing Into Danger" by Inker & Hamilton, "Love at First Sight" by the band Münchener Freiheit and a number of tracks by Sandra such as "Maria Magdalena", "Heaven Can Wait", when wife Susanna Kemmler was partly responsible for the background vocals.

Il ritorno di Tobia

One of the soprano soloists was Nancy Storace, also a friend of Haydn, who later was Mozart's first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro.

Ilona Jokinen

Among the roles in Ilona Jokinen's repertoire are Susanna (Mozart's The Magic Flute), Kassandra (The Trojan Women by Jani Sivén), Amahl (Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors) and Serpina (Pergolesi's La serva padrona).

James Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe

He inherited his father's titles in 1823 and on 29 December 1836, he married Susanna Stephania Dalbiac, the only child of Sir Charles Dalbiac.

Jenny Kallur

Jenny Kallur and her sister Susanna are daughters of former ice hockey player Anders Kallur who won four Stanley Cup championships with the New York Islanders.

John Glynn

Glynn married, on 21 July 1763, Susanna Margaret, third daughter of Sir John Oglander of Nunwell in the Isle of Wight; she was born 1 September 1744, and died at Catherine Place, Bath, 20 May 1816.

L. Forbes Winslow

His older brother was the Revd Forbes Edward Winslow, the vicar of Epping, while his sister, Susanna Frances, married the humorist Arthur William à Beckett.

La scuola de' gelosi

In 1783 it was given in Vienna, with a cast including Francesco Benucci as Blasio and Nancy Storace as the countess, the original Figaro and Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

Liliane Berton

Her career encompassed many lighter soprano roles in the repertoire: l’Amour, Fatime (Les Indes galantes), Sophie (Werther), Poussette (Manon), Xenia (Boris Godunov), Rosina (The Barber of Seville, in French), Eurydice (Orphée), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) and Chérubin and Susanna (The marriage of Figaro).

Louis Spohr

Der Alchymist (WoO 57) Bernd Weikl, Moran Abouloff, Jörg Dürmüller, Jan Zinkler, Susanna Pütters, Staatsorchester Braunschweig, Christian Fröhlich.

Marguerite Chapuy

She was invited by Mapleson to sing in London, where her repertoire included Zerlina, Susanna, Rosina and Lucia.

Marta Roure

She attended first course of guitar and song at the Music School in Lleida and studies of musical theater at Youkali school in Barcelona, with Marc Montserrat, "el Sueco" and Susanna Egea as teachers of interpretation, Emma Reverter as teacher of Dance Jazz, Rosa Mateu in spoken voice technics, Enric Torner as teacher of claque, Josep Maria Borràs teacher of sol-fa and repertoire, and Fulgenci Mestres and Carme Sánchez teachers of song.

Miles Richmond

In 1952, he and his first wife, Eleanor (later Susanna) Richmond moved to Aix-en-Provence, France, and in 1954 to Ronda, Andalusia, Spain, where he lived and worked for over twenty years.

Nathaniel G. S. Hart

His four sisters married men of some renown – Ann married US Senator James Brown of Louisiana, Eliza married the surgeon Dr. Richard Pindell, Susanna married the lawyer Samuel Price and Lucretia married Henry Clay.

Niels Petersen House

While the new home was being built, Petersen traveled back east, where he met his future bride Susanna Decker of South Montrose, Pennsylvania.

Philip Grausman

The coloration of Susanna and Eileen—an emphatic and velvety white—might transform MoMA’s refrigeratorlike ambience into something like the Parthenon.

Rosemary Joshua

Other early operatic appearances were Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Scottish Opera, and both Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier for English National Opera.

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna

Saint Susanna, virgin and martyr, is said to have been the daughter of Saint Gabinus of Rome.

Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet

Northcote was the eldest surviving son of John Northcote (1570-1632) of Hayne, Newton St Cyres, near Crediton, Devon, (whose splendid monument he erected in Newton St Cyres Church) by his second wife Susanna Pollard, daughter of Sir Hugh II Pollard of King's Nympton.

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.

St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso

St John was born at Woodford, Northamptonshire, the son of John St John, 12th Baron St John of Bletso and his wife Susanna Louisa Simond, daughter of Peter Simond.

Stiltsville

Susanna Daniel novel, Stiltsville: a Novel; several episodes of Miami Vice (1984-89) and Sea Hunt (1958-61); the film Around the World Under the Sea (1966), the made-for-TV adventure-pilot, The Fantastic Seven (1979), Absence of Malice (1981), and the 2003 film Bad Boys II.

Susanna Hall

When Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, he left the bulk of his estate, in an elaborate fee tail, to Susanna and her male heirs, which included his main house, New Place, his two houses on Henley Street, and various lands in and around Stratford, and all his “goodes Chattels, Leases, plate, jewles and Household stuffe whatsoever after my dettes and Legasies paied and my funerall expences discharged” to her and her husband.

Susanna Moore

During May to August 2009, Susanna Moore will be Writer-in-Residence at Australia's University of Adelaide.

Susanna Parigi

In 2003 Susanna Parigi was finalist at the "Festival della Canzone d'Autore" in Recanati.

Susanna van Steenwijk

Susanna's father, Johan Gaspoel, was buried in 1622 in Westham in England, when his three children were not yet 21 years of age.

Thomas Hyde Page

In 1777 he married Susanna, widow of Edmund Bastard of Kitley, Devon, and sister of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, baronet.


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