Cadie
J. Bryan
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Susanna
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Maria Rainer
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Captain Von Trapp
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Véronique Filloux
Liesl
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Schyler Vargas
Rolf Gruber
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Jeannette
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Ophemon
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Description
Seeking the Human Spirit, Houston Grand Opera’s six-year multi-disciplinary initiative, highlights the universal spiritual themes raised in opera. STHS explores a different theme each year, starting in 2017 and concluding in 2023, as it relates to select operas from each season.
On May 18, 2023, the initiative will culminate with the world premiere of six chamber works, each inspired by one of our themes:
Sacrifice—when will we do what must be done, composed by Zach Redler, with a libretto by Jerre Dye;
Identity—Take Your Eyes Off My Joy, composed by Jocelyn C. Chambers, with a libretto by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton;
Spirit—Indigenous / Undigenous I, composed by Brent Michael Davids, with his own text, translated to Comanche;
Faith—A Stillness that Moves, composed by Shih-Hui Chen, based on text inspired by Houston’s Rothko Chapel;
Character—Drives, composed by Mark Buller, with a libretto Euan Tait; and
Transformation—hela, composed by J.E. Hernández, set to Nahuatl poems.
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Mélisande Cover
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Brandon Bell
Shepherd
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Samantha Hankey
Mélisande
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Despina
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Bille Bruley
Ferrando
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Caitlin Gotimer
Fiordiligi
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Regional Auditions - Soprano
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Meghan Kasanders
Grand Finals Concert - Finalist
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Kaileigh Riess
Boston District (Winner)
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Mikayla Sager
Virtual Auditions
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Melanie Spector
New England Region, Connecticut District Winner
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Ashley Dixon
Grand Finals Winner
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Rusalka
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Chlöe
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Sara Gartland
Lisa
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Andrew Turner
Tchaplitsky
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Adrian Sanchez
Prince Yeletsky (cover)
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Peter Scott Drackley
Gherman (cover)
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Symone Harcum
Mascha, Lisa (Cover)
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Clarine
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Kellie Motter
Thalie (cover), Thalie (cover)
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Josh Lovell
Mercure
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Véronique Filloux
L'Amour, La Folie (cover)
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Jason Zacher
Jupiter (Cover)
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Evan Hammond
Un Satyre
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Bess
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Kaitlyn Sabrowsky
Jane Withersteen
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Lucy
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Maid
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Susanna
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Annina
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Violetta
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Chan Parker
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Stephanie Sanchez
Baroness Nica
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Second Wood Sprite
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Sara Gartland
Rusalka
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Naomi Brigell
Third Wood Sprite
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Biography
Louisiana-born soprano Cadie J. Bryan is praised by Opera News as “sparkling” and “pertly pealing.” In the 2022-2023 season, she returned to Arizona Opera to debut the role of Maria in The Sound of Music opposite her husband, baritone Jonathan Bryan (Captain Von Trapp) and to The Atlanta Opera for a role debut as Woglinde in Tomer Zvulun's new production of Das Rheingold. During the summer, she joined The Santa Fe Opera, covering the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande, while fall 2023 brings her New Orleans Opera debut as Susanna in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of Le nozze di Figaro.
Ms. Bryan’s 2021-2022 season featured multiple house and role debuts, including: in concert with The Dallas Opera for the Hart Institute for Women Conductors; Opera Las Vegas as Addie Mills in the west coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House Without a Christmas Tree, The Atlanta Opera as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Arizona Opera, reprising the role of Despina in Così fan tutte.
In the summer of 2021, she debuted the roles of Clarine in Rameau's Platée, under the baton of Gary Thor Wedow, and Prilepa in Pique Dame as an Ensemble Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera. Prior to the COVID-19 shut down, she was slated to sing the role of Naiade in Ariadne auf Naxos at Arizona Opera where she completed two years as a Marion Roose Pullin 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.
Previously, the soprano made her mainstage debut at Arizona Opera as Chan Parker in Daniel Schnyder's and Bridgette Wimberly’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, and performed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
Cadie is an alumna 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, Marian in The Music Man, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Lisette in La rondine.
Ms. Bryan received 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 with baritone Dennis Jesse.
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