Cassandra Wright is an acclaimed Australian soprano based in Germany, where she has been a member of the ensemble at Theater Freiburg since 2023.

Recent and forthcoming highlights include Violetta in La traviata, Sophie in Werther and Cinderella in Into the Woods at Theater Freiburg, together with Gutrune and Dritte Norn in Götterdämmerung for Bühnen Bern.

Her roles at Theater Freiburg have included Gilda in Rigoletto, Bibi in the European premiere of Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber opera p r i s m, Morgana in Alcina, Jano in Jenůfa, 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.

In 2026 Cassandra won First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award in Sydney.

After graduating from Royal Academy Opera in 2023, Cassandra joined the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus. During her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, roles 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 In the Twilight on Linn Records, featuring works by Barber, Grieg, Debussy, Korngold and Marx. Limelight described it as “a sensuous, evocative debut recital disc.”

Her concert work includes Knussen’s Songs and a Sea-Interlude from Where the Wild Things Are with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Wilson, and 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 the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Scholarship, the Australian Music Foundation Nora Goodridge Emerging Artist Award, support from the Tait Memorial Trust and the Knights of the Round Table Award.

She was winner of the 2022 Royal Over-Seas League Music Overseas Prize and the 2021 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition.

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