CASSANDRA DOYLE
M E Z Z O-S O P R A N O
BIOGRAPHY
From the 2025/26 season, Cassandra Doyle joins 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).
Cassandra is a 24-year-old Australian mezzo-soprano with German citizenship. Since relocating to Germany in 2024, Cassandra was a member of the Opernstudio NRW, a young artist of the Salzburger Festspiele 'Young Singers Project', and a 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.
Born in Sydney, Cassandra is an alumnus of the Conservatorium High School and Sydney Conservatorium of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) in 2023, studying with Maree Ryan AM and Dr. Rowena Cowley. 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 (Durante), 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.
As a graduate of the Conservatorium High School (2014-2019), Cassandra studied violin, viola and piano. In her final year of high 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 alumnus of the Sydney Children’s Choir, Gondwana Choirs, Australian Youth Choir, and Sydney Youth Orchestra.
Cassandra is represented by Sono Artists.
REVIEWS
“Beim Gesang haben die Damen die Nase leicht vorn:
Den drei Herren stehen drei stark agierende Frauenfiguren gegenüber…. Cassandra Doyle als entschlossene Elvira, die mit Don Giovannis Schweinereien endgültig abrechnet…”
— Patrick Erb, Concerti.de
12.10.2025
“… boasts an excellent stage presence, as does Cassandra Doyle in the pants role of Cherubino. Doyle nearly stole the show pretending to be the boy pretending to be a girl. Her feigned inability to walk in heels was hilarious.”
- Jansson J. Antman, Limelight
01.05.2022
“…sang Cassandra Doyle die Arie des Cherubino „Voi che sapete che cosa è amor“ aus Mozarts „Le nozze di Figaro“. Da hat die Staatsoper einen wunderbar weichen lyrischen Mezzosopran hinzugewonnen.
- Achim Riehn, Gesellschaft der Freunde des Opernhauses Hannover e.V. (GFO)
02.09.2025
“Olga Jelínková als Donna Anna und Cassandra Doyle als Donna Elvira sind virtuos singende Damen, bestimmt von Rachsucht, Bereitschaft zum Verzeihen und schließlich tödlicher Wut auf den ewigen Betrüger Don Giovanni.”
- Claus-Ulrich Heinke, Orpheus Magazin
31.10.2025
“Cassandra Doyle (Donna Elvira) und Olga Jelínková (Donna Anna) balancieren Stimmglanz und Hysterie wunderbar aus.”
— Henning Queren, HAZ
12.10.2025
“… erstaunlich koloraturgewandt sang die australische Mezzosopranistin Cassandra Doyle das Rossini-Aschenputtel.”
— Bernd Aulich, Recklinghäuser Zeitung
02.03.2025
“Alto Cassandra Doyle displayed a rich mezzo tone well suited to the demands of the rigorous and despairing aria "Ach, bleibe doch" which Bach would develop further in his great Mass in B minor.”
- Victoria Watson, SoundsLikeSydney
14.05.2022
“Cassandra Doyle entwickelt als Donna Elvira dramatisches wie koloraturgespicktes Volumen.”
- Andreas Berger, Oper! Magazin
13.10.2025
“Die australische Mezzosopranistin Cassandra Doyle nimmt in gewisser Weise eine Sonderstellung im Kontext der diesjährigen Absolventen ein, weil sie die einzige Bewerberin für das Opernstudio in den Jahren seines Bestehens ist, die über kein abgeschlossenes Gesangsstudium verfügt. Die Auswahljury hatte sich von einem Video überzeugen lassen, und überzeugend ist auch ihr Auftritt an diesem Abend. Als Cenerentola brilliert sie im Schlussrondo, umrahmt von Natalia Labourdette, Elia Cohen Weissert, Yancheng Chen und dem Opernchor des Musiktheaters im Revier. Sie ist prima inter pares und ihre Performance ein Ereignis. Mit einer opulent strömenden Stimme und warmem Timbre vermag sie für sich einzunehmen. Ihr zukünftiges Festengagement an der Staatsoper Hannover ist die natürliche Konsequenz.”
— Bernd Lausberg, O-Ton
02.03.2025
“Alto Cassandra Doyle’s solo is exceptionally
beautiful”
- Shamista de Soysa, Limelight
02.05.2022
2025 / 26
11 OCTOBER, 2025
DONNA ELVIRA
DON GIOVANNI
STAATSOPER HANNOVER
3 DECEMBER, 2025
HÄNSEL
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
STAATSOPER HANNOVER
1 MARCH, 2026
CHERUBINO
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
STAATSOPER HANNOVER
9 MAY, 2026
LUCIENNE
DIE TOTE STADT
STAATSOPER HANNOVER
Contact
For all professional enquiries and bookings please contact Sono Artists.
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Samantha Farber, Founder and Director
+43 (0) 660 507 5051
Sylvia Saavedra-Edelmann, Artist Manager
+43 (0) 650 552 4855
@cass.doyle
