About

Of Portuguese and Romanian descent, Canadian soprano Cassandra Amorim is a Master of Music graduate of the University of Toronto Opera School.

This winter, Cassandra will be making her debut with Voicebox Opera, portraying Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine. Recently, Cassandra returned to Summer Opera Lyric Theatre to perform the role of Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème. In Romania, Cassandra portrayed Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart with Vienna-Tel-Aviv Vocal Connection. This past spring Cassandra premiered a new work by Canadian composer Justin Lapierre titled One Thousand Shields of Gold. She also portrayed Miss Jessel in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw last fall during her debut with Grand River Opera. On the university stage, she has performed the roles of 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.

Cassandra earned her Honours Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at Wilfrid Laurier University and was a Choral Scholar with the Laurier Singers’ Choir. An accomplished violinist, Cassandra served as principal violinist of the Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Orchestra.

She has been mentored by Leslie Fagan, Sylvia Greenberg, Lorna MacDonald, Marianne Bindig, Bethany Horst and Daniel Lichti. Cassandra has received the Richard Bradshaw Graduate Fellowship, the Joseph So Opera Scholarship and the Mary & John Yaremko Study Abroad Award from the University of Toronto.