About
Of Portuguese and Romanian heritage, Canadian soprano Cassandra Amorim is praised for her voice of “power and precision.” Her repertoire spans the lyric and spinto soprano traditions, with a particular affinity for Italian opera.
This winter, Amorim will appear as the soprano soloist in the premiere of a new Canadian work by composer Justin Lapierre, continuing her engagement with contemporary music following her premiere of Lapierre’s oratorio The Gatherers.
In 2025, Amorim made her debut with Toronto City Opera as Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. She has also appeared as Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine with Good Mess Opera Theatre, reprising the role following her debut with Voicebox: Opera in Concert. Other operatic credits include Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème with Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, Contessa in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with Vienna-Tel Aviv Vocal Connection in Romania and Miss Jessel in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with Grand River Opera. Her additional roles include Helene in Hindemith’s Hin und Zurück, Mrs. Jenks in Copland’s The Tender Land, Madame Lidoine in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Madame Defarge in Arthur Benjamin’s A Tale of Two Cities.
Amorim has participated in the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance’s Bel Canto Academy and Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, returning to the latter program for further study. She continues her vocal studies with Zajick.
A lifelong musician, Amorim began her musical journey as a violinist, serving as principal violinist of the Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Orchestra. Growing up in the orchestra pit, she developed an early love of opera, falling in love with the art form one overture at a time before stepping onto the stage herself.
Amorim holds a Master of Music in Opera from the University of Toronto and an Honours Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University. Her awards include the Richard Bradshaw Graduate Fellowship, the Joseph So Opera Scholarship and the Mary & John Yaremko Study Abroad Award.
