This winter, Susan and long-time friend and musical partner Renée Fleming will embark on their first recital tour. The duo met as winners at the 1988 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, since when the Associated Press has compared their collaborations to “some rare alignment of planets.”

Accompanied by renowned pianist Bradley Moore in a program of all-French salon music, Susan will be in her natural habitat, for she is widely recognized as “unbeatable in French repertoire” (Time Out New York). The six-city tour will visit San Francisco’s Davies Hall (Jan 16), Los Angeles’s Disney Hall (Jan 19), Palm Desert’s McCallum Theatre (Jan 22), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Jan 24), Carnegie Hall (Jan 27), and Boston’s Symphony Hall (Feb 3).