Dramatic soprano Susan Neves has been internationally acclaimed in theaters such as the Opera Bastille in Paris, the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona ,L’Arena di Verona and many others as a thrilling singing actress. Neves commands a repertoire of some of the most challenging roles written for soprano. She has won particular acclaim as a Verdi soprano of the first rank as her Verdi repertoire is uncommonly vast and includes Abigaille in Nabucco, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Odabella in Attila, Elvira in Ernani, Leonora in Il Trovatore and La Forza del Destino, Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera, Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlo, the title role of Aida and Alice Ford in Falstaff. She has been especially identified with the role of Abigaille which has played a significant part in her career and which she has sung all over the world including a new production in 2000 at the Deutsche Oper under Marcello Viotti, in two revivals at the Bastille in Paris, in Montreal, Santiago, Parma, Genoa, Liege, Munich, Cagliari, Bilbao, at the Arena di Verona, Bologna, Monte Carlo ( where she also sang Aida ) and the outdoor festivals in Nimes and the Choregies d’Orange, the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera.