Performance Year: 2027
Louisiana-born soprano Cadie J. Bryan has quickly built a reputation as an entrancing performer, who shines in a vast and diverse mix of repertoire. She recently made a star turn as Milada in Smetana’s Dalibor at Bard Summerscape, where critics praised her “radiant tone and nuanced singing” and “stage-commanding performance.”
Bryan’s 2026-2027 season includes her Metropolitan Opera debut as Barena in Jenůfa, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with San Diego Opera and Cincinnati Opera, her role debut as Violetta in La traviata with Arizona Opera, and Musetta in La bohème with Lyric Opera of Kansas City. The previous season included covering the leading role of Sarah Kavalier in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at The Metropolitan Opera; Annchen in Der Freischütz with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; returns to Des Moines Metro Opera as Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men, New Orleans Opera for highlights from Showboat, and the Atlanta Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Woglinde in Götterdämmerung; her role debut as Nedda in Pagliacci with Piedmont Opera; and Laurey in Oklahoma! with Pensacola Opera.
She began the 2024-2025 season in a return to the Atlanta Opera, singing Musetta in the company’s site-specific production of La bohème. She bowed in the Santa Fe Symphony’s performances of Handel’s Messiah, joined celebrated Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli for winter tour dates across 9 cities and spring performances in Napa Valley, and debuted with North Carolina Opera, returning to the role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. The spring of 2024 also featured tour dates alongside Bocelli, performing as soprano soloist in eight concerts across the North America. During the summer, she returned to Santa Fe Opera as Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore, also covering Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
In the summer of 2021, she had her role debut as Clarine in Rameau’s Platée under the baton of Gary Thor Wedow and Prilepa in Queen of Spades as an Ensemble Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera. Prior to the COVID-19 shut down, she completed two years as a Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio Artist (2018-2020). In her final season, she performed four mainstage roles, including Bess in Craig Bohmler’s Riders of the Purple Sage, Musetta in La bohème, Lucy in Fellow Travelers, and Maid in the Taliesin West Premier of Daron Hagen’s Shining Brow. She made her mainstage debut at Arizona Opera as Chan Parker in Daniel Schnyder’s and Bridgette Wimberly’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, Annina in La traviata, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. As an apprentice artist at Des Moines Metro Opera, she made her mainstage debut at as the Second Wood Sprite in an Emmy Award-winning production of Rusalka (2017).
Cadie is an alumnus 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. Other career highlights include Clara in Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s It’s A Wonderful Life (2017), Marian in The Music Man (2017), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (2014), and Lisette in La rondine (2014). She earned 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, studying with baritone Dennis Jesse.
