Métis/Canadian Mezzo-Soprano Rebecca Cuddy is a two-time Dora Award Nominated performer who is quickly gaining recognition on Canadian operatic stages. Acknowledged as ‘fresh and funny, with a large supple voice’ (MacLean, Gigcity.ca 2018) ‘moving’ (Gilks, Opera Canada 2019) and ‘the next generation who are going to do incredible things’ (Newman, The Whole Note 2019), she made the 2021 CBC 30 Under 30 List. She is one of the recipients of the Dora Award for Outstanding Ensemble Work in Soundstreams’ Two Odysseys; Pimootewin and Gállábártnit. Career highlights include La Métisse, in the world premiere of Riel; Heart of the North with Regina Symphony Orchestra,  Kwe in the world premiere of Shanawdithit with Tapestry Opera/Opera on the Avalon,  Mercedes (Cover Carmen) in Carmen, and Dreitte Dame in Die Zauberflöte. Rebecca is the current Indigenous Artist in Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada, where she is studying directing, playwriting, acting and design.  Her 2021 season includes multiple digital releases. She makes her Canadian Opera Company debut in Voices of Mountains, a collaboration with acclaimed Mezzo-Soprano Marion Newman, Regina Symphony’s Gordon Gerrard and award-winning choreographer Aria Evans, directed by Julie McIsaac. She will premiere the titular role in OperaQ’s Medusa’s Children and appears in Soundstreams’ Garden of Vanished Pleasures and Encounters: Indigenous Voices and Shatter with Toronto Concert Orchestra. Rebecca has a keen interest in Indigenous relations and music, along with contemporary composition. She is immensely proud to be a collaborator on multiple productions and part of six new Indigenous Opera productions in the last three years. Most recently, she premiered the role of Bunny/Crow 1 in The Flight of the Hummingbird on a tour of British Columbia with Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria, Winter 2020. Rebecca’s engagement with Pacific Opera Victoria/Vancouver Opera for The Flight of the Hummingbird was cut short due to COVID-19.  Other postponed engagements include her debut with Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as Josette la belle Métisse in Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North and her debut with Toronto Symphony Orchestra as The Page/Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto.  Rebecca is a strong advocate for Indigenous voices in the performing arts. She is a current member of the Canadian Opera Company Circle of Artists, a Grand Council Member for the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance and a member of the National Theatre School of Canada Indigenous Advisory Circle. In 2020, she worked with the Association for Opera in Canada to create a Land Acknowledgement and Indigenous Engagement Resource for Canadian opera, and works as a facilitator and collaborator in the performing arts community.