Susan Wheeler

Dramatic Soprano Susan Wheeler is a charismatic opera and concert performer who sings “dripping with musicality” (Choralis). Her fiery style draws comparisons with singers of the golden Bel Canto era. Ms. Wheeler's upcoming performances are with The Metropolitan Opera Guild in March 2022, singing selections from The Rake's Progress as Anne Truelove, and as Elsa in Lohengrin with Opera Susquehanna. Ms. Wheeler is appearing as Chrysothemis (Elektra) with the New York Chamber Music Festival at Symphony Space in October 2021.

Susan recently made her Carnegie Hall debut (Mozart Requiem, Dvořák Te Deum). In concert, she has performed with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (Cunegonde, Maria); Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Papagena); and Piedmont Symphony Orchestra (Cunegonde, Anne, A Little Night Music).

Internationally acclaimed, in 2019 Susan appeared with Radio RBB in Berlin at the Templehof, as a guest artist with the Bundeswehr Military Band at the Fest der

Luftbrüke (My Fair Lady; Glory Denied selections) and in recital at the Embassy of the United States in Berlin (Mozart, Purcell, Strauss). In Italy, Susan appeared with Bel Canto Tuscany (Donna Anna, Don Giovanni) in 2017 and with the Mediterranean Opera Festival (Mimi, La Bohème; Countess, Le Nozze di Figaro) in 2014-2015. Ms. Wheeler’s opera performances comprise all three Heroines in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Augusta Opera); Mimi (Opera Company of Brooklyn); and Valencienne (Annapolis Opera, Maryland Lyric). She has also appeared as Violetta in La Traviata, Marie in La Fille du Régiment, and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. Her other roles include Donna Elvira, Elettra (Idomeneo), Strauss’s Ariadne and Arabella, Hanna Glawari, and the Verdi heroines Desdemona and Leonora (Il Trovatore).

An Actors Equity actress, Susan has been presented in musicals at The Kennedy Center (Johanna, Sweeney Todd, Journalist, 90 North); Encores! at City Center (Soloist, The New Moon); Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center (A Night of Cabaret); and, in 2017, Christine in Phantom of the Opera at the prestigious Warner Theater.

Ms. Wheeler has been featured on National Public Radio, and on Live from the Library of Congress. Susan is a recipient of the Thoman Career Grant, and a winner of The American Prize and the McAllister International and Annapolis Opera Vocal Competitions.

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