BIOGRAPHY

Cassandra Doyle is a 24-year-old Australian mezzo-soprano of German heritage. From the 2025/26 Season, Cassandra will join the Ensemble of Staatsoper Hannover under the new artistic direction of Bodo Busse and Alexander Reschke. She begins the season debuting the role of Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni. Following this, she performs the roles of Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (revival), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (revival) and Lucienne in Die tote Stadt (premiere).

Since relocating to Germany in 2024, Cassandra was a member of the Opernstudio NRW, young artist of the Salzburger Festspiele 'Young Singers Project', and young artist of the Georg Solti Accademia.

In the 2024/25 season, Cassandra performed the roles of Die würdige Dame in Der Spieler (Prokofiev) at the Salzburger Festspiele, Flora Bervoix in La Traviata (Verdi) at Oper Dortmund, Hänsel in Große Oper Klein: Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) at Oper Wuppertal, Tisbe in La Cenerentola (Rossini), Blumenmädchen in Parsifal (Wagner) and Mrs Moreno in The Listeners (Mazzoli) at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen. She also sang in “Oper on Fire” gala concert at Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen.

Cassandra holds a Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, studying voice with Maree Ryan AM and Dr. Rowena Cowley (2023). 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 further study 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 other performed roles in Australia include Ino in Semele (Handel), Irene in Theodora (Handel), Leila in Iolanthe (Sullivan) and Madame Frida in the Australian premiere of Max and Moritz (Draguns). 

Her concert soloist engagements include Requiem Op. 48 (Fauré), Messiah (Handel), Requiem in D minor (Mozart), Krönungsmesse (Mozart), Magnificat (Vivaldi), Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 (J.S. Bach), Magnificat RV.611 (Vivaldi), Messe de Minuit (Charpentier), Petit Messe Solenelle (Rossini), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Requiem Op.9 (Duruflé), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Duranté), Gloria (Vivaldi), Rückert- Lieder (Mahler), Kindertotenlieder (Mahler), Lauda Per La Nativita del Signore (Respighi).

​In 2022 Cassandra was a recitalist for The Women's Club, taking part in their 'Women in Music' Limelight concert series and is a regular recitalist at St. James Church, King Street, Sydney.

Masterclasses include that by Graham Johnson OBE, Violeta Urmana, Enrique Mazzola, Edith Weins, Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir, Charles Castronovo, Tahu Matheson, Erin Helyard, Miriam Allan, David Miller AM, Christian Müller, Lynne Dawson, Taryn Fiebig, Alexandra Flood and Konstantin Shamray. 

During her tertiary 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 (2014-2019), Cassandra studied violin, viola and piano. In her final year of school, Cassandra was a concert soloist at the Sydney Opera House for the NSW Arts Unit Festival of Music and a featured artist in the NSW Schools Spectacular. Cassandra is also an alumni of the Sydney Children’s Choir, Gondwana Choirs, Australian Youth Choir and Sydney Youth Orchestra.