Louisiana-born soprano Cadie J. Bryan recently made a star turn as Milada in Smetana’s Dalibor at Bard Summerscape, where critics praised her “radiant tone and nuanced singing” and “stage-commanding performance.”
Her 2025-2026 season features engagements with The Metropolitan Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Pensacola Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Finger Lakes Opera, and more.
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Her voice is clear as a bell and beautiful, and when she and Bocelli joined together for later selections, their vocal blend was truly lovely.
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"it’s not rooted in applause and adoration, but rather in my sense of self, my work, my focus, and my presence."
Cadie J. Bryan
BIO
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Louisiana-born soprano Cadie J. Bryan recently made a star turn as Milada in Smetana’s Dalibor at Bard Summerscape, where critics praised her “radiant tone and nuanced singing” and “stage-commanding performance.”
Bryan’s 2025-2026 season includes covering the leading role of Sarah Kavalier in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at The Metropolitan Opera; Annchen in Le Freischütz with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; returns to Des Moines Metro Opera as Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men; New Orleans Opera, for highlights from Showboat; and The Atlanta Opera as Susanna in a performance of Le nozze di Figaro, as well as Woglinde in Götterdämmerung; her role debut as Nedda in Pagliacci with Piedmont Opera; and Laurey in Oklahoma! with Pensacola Opera. Next season, she makes her Metropolitan Opera debut, as Barena in Jenůfa, and sings leading roles with San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
She began the 2024-2025 season in a return to The Atlanta Opera, singing Musetta in the company site-specific production of La bohème. She bowed in the Santa Fe Symphony’s performances of Handel’s Messiah, joined Andrea Bocelli for winter tour dates across 9 cities and spring performances in Napa Valley, and debuted with North Carolina Opera, returning to the central role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
The autumn of 2023 brought her New Orleans Opera debut as Susanna in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of Mozart's timeless classic, followed by an engagement with the New York Philharmonic, covering the role of Tovah Odesska in the premiere of Émigré. The spring of 2024 also featured tour dates alongside celebrated Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, performing as soprano soloist in eight concerts across the North America. During the summer, she returned to The Santa Fe Opera as Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, also covering Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
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.
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 Queen of Spades as an Ensemble Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera. Prior to the COVID-19 shut down, she completed two years as a Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera 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.
Previoiusly, she made her mainstage debut at Arizona Opera as Chan Parker in Daniel Schnyder's and Bridgette Wimberly’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, as well as Annina in La traviata, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. As an apprentice artist at Des Moines Metro Opera, she made her mainstage debut at as the Second Wood Sprite in an Emmy Award-winning production of Rusalka (2017).
Cadie is an alumnus 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 (2017), Marian in The Music Man (2017), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (2014), and Lisette in La rondine (2014).
She 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.