Biography

In the 2024/25 season, Australian-German mezzo-soprano Cassandra Doyle has joined the Opera Studio of the NRW, and as such performs the roles of Flora in La Traviata (Verdi) with Oper Dortmund, Hänsel in Große Oper Klein: Hänsel undGretel (Humperdinck) with Oper Wuppertal, Tisbe in La Cenerentola (Rossini), Blumenmädchen in Parsifal (Wagner) and Mrs Moreno in The Listeners (Mazzoli/Vavrek) at the Aalto Theater Essen. In summer 2024 Cassandra was invited to the highly prestigious Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival and during the summer also sang Die würdige Dame in the new production of Prokofiev's Der Spieler directed by Peter Sellars (cond. Timir Zangiev). 

​In the 2023 finals of the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition, Cassandra was awarded the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute (CVAI) Montreal Scholarship assisted by the Nell Pascal Award, the Zeke Solomon Award to attend the Israeli Opera Young Artist program at the Meitar Opera Studio, and the Nicole Car Prize to receive mentoring sessions from herself in Paris. She has also been a recipient of the Stefan Kruger Scholarship (2MBS Fine Music FM, 2024), Istituto Italiano di Cultura Award, and Goethe-Institut Prize (IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition 2022, 2023), Patricia Bell Grant (2020), Patricia Long Scholarship (2023) and George and Margaret Henderson Scholarships (2023, 2024) afforded her the opportunity attend the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester on a short-exchange and pursue a Masters degree in Europe. 

Cassandra’s other competition successes include 2nd Prize in the Sydney International Song Prize (Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation, 2022) and a Finalist in the Demant Dreikurs Scholarship Song Competition (2022, 2023). Cassandra has performed the roles of Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Ino in Semele (Handel) and Irene in Theodora (Handel), Leila in Iolanthe (Sullivan) and Madame Frida in the Australian premiere of Max and Moritz (Draguns). She has also performed in numerous concerts and has an extensive concert repertoire. 

Cassandra Doyle graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) in 2023, studying voice with Maree Ryan AM and Dr. Rowena Cowley. During her studies Cassandra has been an Alto choral scholar with St. James Church, King Street, Apprentice Artist with The Song Company and collaborated with Cantillation, Bach Akademie Australia and Ensemble Apex. ​A graduate of the Conservatorium High School, Cassandra was a concert soloist at the Sydney Opera House for the NSW Arts Unit Festival of Music (2019) and a featured artist in the NSW Schools Spectacular (2019). Masterclasses include that by Graham Johnson OBE, Tahu Matheson, Erin Helyard, Miriam Allan, David Miller AM, Christian Müller, Lynne Dawson, Taryn Fiebig, Alexandra Flood and Konstantin Shamray.