Louisiana-born soprano Cadie J. Bryan is praised by Opera News as “sparkling” and “pertly pealing.”
Ms. Bryan begins the 2024-2025 season in a return to Atlanta Opera, singing Musetta in the company site-specific production of La bohème. She once again tours with beloved Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, appearing as featured soprano soloist in 9 concert dates. Additional season engagements include Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony, led by conductor Gary Thor Wedow, and her debut with North Carolina Opera, returning to the central role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
The autumn of 2023 brought her New Orleans Opera debut as Susanna in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of Mozart's timeless classic, followed by an engagement with the New York Philharmonic, covering the role of Tovah Odesska in the premiere of Émigré. The spring of 2024 also featured tour dates alongside celebrated Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, performing as soprano soloist in eight concerts across the United States. During the summer, she returned to Santa Fe Opera as Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, also covering Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
During the 2022-2023 season, she returned to Arizona Opera to debut the role of Maria in The Sound of Music opposite her husband, baritone Jonathan Bryan (Captain Von Trapp) and to The Atlanta Opera for a role debut as Woglinde in Tomer Zvulun's new production of Das Rheingold. For summer 2023 she joined The Santa Fe Opera, covering the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande.
Previous operatic engagements for Cadie Bryan include Addie Mills in the west coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House Without a Christmas Tree with Opera Las Vegas, Clarine in Rameau's Platée and Prilepa in Pique Dame with Des Moines Metro Opera, and Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Atlanta Opera. A graduate of Arizona Opera’s Marion Roose Pullin Studio, she has sung many mainstage roles with the company, ranging from Mozart (Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Despina/Così fan tutte) and Puccini (Musetta in La bohème) to contemporary works (Bess/Riders of the Purple Sage, Lucy/Fellow Travelers, Chan Parker/Charlie Parker’s Yardbird).
Cadie is an alumna of Ravinia’s Steans Institute for singers (2017, 2018), where she studied and performed in a variety of art song and Lieder recitals with world-renowned pianists and coaches. She has also appeared in concert with The Dallas Opera for the Hart Institute for Women Conductors.Other performed roles include Clara in Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer's It’s a Wonderful Life, Marian in The Music Man, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Lisette in La rondine.
The soprano received a Master of Music and a Performance Diploma from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and her Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University with baritone Dennis Jesse.
