Soprano
susan wheeler
“Virtuosic and vocally stunning” soprano Susan Wheeler is an artist on the rise. As the cover for indisposed star soprano Alessandra Marc in 2024, Susan stepped in and sang a well-received concert of Verdi, Handel and Adam. Renowned conductor Eve Queler presented Susan that year, and The Metropolitan Opera Guild and Wagner Society of New York featured her in 2022 and 2023 concerts as Elsa (Lohengrin), a role she reprised with Opera Susquehanna.
Susan’s upcoming schedule for 2025 includes creating the role of Aurelia Raven in the exciting new opera 3:16 in New York, covering Leonora in Il Trovatore with Boheme Opera NJ, singing La Bohème arias in the Jane Marsh lecture winter recital series, and recording a CD of Jeanette MacDonald operetta gems.
Susan first appeared with the New York Chamber Music Festival at Symphony Space as Chrysothemis (Elektra) in 2021, and recently made her Carnegie Hall debut (Mozart Mass in C minor). An international performer, Ms. Wheeler performed in Germany’s 2019 Berlin Airlift Memorial Concert, broadcast by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, and gave a celebrated recital at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. She was also heard as Mimi in La Bohème and as Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Mediterranean Opera Festival in Sicily. In 2017 critics celebrated her Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Tuscany as “nuanced and beautifully sung.”
Susan's other roles include Elettra (Idomeneo), Strauss’ Die Kaiserin, Chrysothemis, and Salome and the Verdi heroines Luisa Miller and Desdemona. A former Actors Equity actress, she appeared in musicals at the Kennedy Center (Johanna, Sweeney Todd, Journalist, 90 North), in Encores! at City Center New York (Soloist, The New Moon), at the Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center (Cabaret Nights), and in 2024, as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera with MSE Productions.