Susan Dorchin, Host
Susan Dorchin has hosted WXEL’s Opera Theater since 1999. Her musical career began early in the Children’s Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera and singing with the Royal Ballet. As a student at the Boston Conservatory of Music she received the Arthur B. Whitney award for achieving highest scholastic honor. She went on to sing a variety of roles with New England Opera Center, Boston Public Television, and the Light Opera of Manhattan. She taught privately in New York City where her students included professionals enjoying operatic, Broadway, cabaret, rock n’ roll, film, television and voice over careers. Before joining the faculty of Florida Atlantic University, where she earned her Master of Arts, she taught at Texas Tech University. In addition to teaching singing, she specializes in vocal rehabilitation. Eminent New York, Texas, and now Florida otolaryngologists send her patients in need of vocal rehabilitation. She has developed successful techniques for eliminating vocal nodules. She has treated people suffering from various vocal dysphonias, as well as those who have lost the capacity for speech due to intubation during surgery. She is currently studying for a certification in Alexander Technique.
Some of her roles included Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Elvira in L’Italiana in Algeri. She sang the theme song for a popular children’s television program for WGBH-TV in Boston.
2010 WXEL's Opera Theater Schedule
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July 31
August 7
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2
October 9
October 16
October 23
October 30
November 6
November 13
November 20
November 27
December 4
December 11 |
La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli
La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini
Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet
Der fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner
Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini
The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore
Faust by Charles Gounod
La Wally by Alfredo Catalani
Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
Opera’s Great Villains & Comedic Characters
La Rondine by Giocomo Puccini
Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet
Der fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner
Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini
The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore
Faust by Charles Gounod |
WXEL’s Opera Theater has been on the air since 1999. The program presents a full-length opera recording each week. Host Susan Dorchin, a Professor of Voice at Florida Atlantic University, tirelessly scours the libretto and score for each opera and finds interesting facts about the composers. The result is a comprehensive and illuminating look at some of the greatest works ever written. WXEL’s Opera Theater is made possible, in part, by a generous grant from the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation.
