BIOGRAPHY
"ON A SOLO LEVEL, CASSANDRA WRIGHT’S ANNE STANDS OUT. HER SENSITIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE “QUIETLY, NIGHT” ARIA NEED NOT SHY AWAY FROM INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS - WRIGHT COMMANDS A POWERFUL, YET LYRICAL SOPRANO WITH A SILKY VELVETY TREBLE.”
Opernwelt
Cassandra Wright is an acclaimed Australian soprano based in Germany, where she has been a member of the ensemble at Theater Freiburg since the autumn of 2023.
This season, Cassandra debuted the role of Bibi in the European premiere of Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber opera p r i s m. In Theater Freiburg’s 24/25 season, she also performs Morgana in Alcina and Jano in Jenůfa, while making her debut at Bühnen Bern, where she will sing Gutrune and Dritte Norn in Götterdämmerung.
In the 2023/24 season, Cassandra performed Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Tebaldo in Don Carlos, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and Janine/Ofwarren in the German premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale.
After graduating from the prestigious Royal Academy Opera (RAO) in 2023, Cassandra was engaged by Glyndebourne Festival that summer as a member of their esteemed chorus. During her studies at RAO, her operatic highlights included Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Rosmene in Imeneo, and Arianna in Lamento D’Arianna.
In July 2024, Cassandra and pianist Harry Rylance released an album with Linn Records, In the Twilight. Featuring a selection of works by Samuel Barber, Grieg, Debussy, Korngold, and Marx, the album was praised by Limelight magazine as "a sensuous, evocative debut recital disc."
In concert, Cassandra has performed at prestigious venues, notably delivering Knussen’s Songs and a Sea-Interlude from Where the Wild Things Are at Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner. She has also performed Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 under the baton of John Wilson with the Academy Symphony Orchestra and presented a recital of Schubert Lieder at Wigmore Hall.
Cassandra is an alumna of the Georg Solti Accademia and completed her undergraduate studies at the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia. During her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, she received generous support, including the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Scholarship, the Australian Music Foundation Nora Goodridge Emerging Artist Award, Tait Memorial Trust bursaries, and the Knights of the Round Table Award. Additionally, Cassandra was the winner of the 2022 Royal Over-Seas League Music Overseas Prize and the 2021 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition.
Cassandra Wright is an acclaimed Australian soprano based in Germany, where she has been a member of the ensemble at Theater Freiburg since the autumn of 2023.
This season, Cassandra debuted the role of Bibi in the European premiere of Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber opera p r i s m. In Theater Freiburg’s 24/25 season, she also performs Morgana in Alcina and Jano in Jenůfa, while making her debut at Bühnen Bern, where she will sing Gutrune and Dritte Norn in Götterdämmerung.
In the 2023/24 season, Cassandra performed Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Tebaldo in Don Carlos, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and Janine/Ofwarren in the German premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale.
After graduating from the prestigious Royal Academy Opera (RAO) in 2023, Cassandra was engaged by Glyndebourne Festival that summer as a member of their esteemed chorus. During her studies at RAO, her operatic highlights included Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Rosmene in Imeneo, and Arianna in Lamento D’Arianna.
In July 2024, Cassandra and pianist Harry Rylance released an album with Linn Records, In the Twilight. Featuring a selection of works by Samuel Barber, Grieg, Debussy, Korngold, and Marx, the album was praised by Limelight magazine as "a sensuous, evocative debut recital disc."
In concert, Cassandra has performed at prestigious venues, notably delivering Knussen’s Songs and a Sea-Interlude from Where the Wild Things Are at Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner. She has also performed Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 under the baton of John Wilson with the Academy Symphony Orchestra and presented a recital of Schubert Lieder at Wigmore Hall.
Cassandra is an alumna of the Georg Solti Accademia and completed her undergraduate studies at the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia. During her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, she received generous support, including the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Scholarship, the Australian Music Foundation Nora Goodridge Emerging Artist Award, Tait Memorial Trust bursaries, and the Knights of the Round Table Award. Additionally, Cassandra was the winner of the 2022 Royal Over-Seas League Music Overseas Prize and the 2021 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition.
“ON A SOLO LEVEL, CASSANDRA WRIGHT’S ANNE STANDS OUT. HER SENSITIVE INTERPRETATION
OF THE “QUIETLY, NIGHT” ARIA NEED NOT SHY AWAY FROM INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS - WRIGHT
COMMANDS A POWERFUL, YET LYRICAL SOPRANO WITH A SILKY VELVETY TREBLE.” OPERNWELT
