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Cindy Sadler commands any stage with her rich, impressive contralto and distinctive characterizations. As a "wonderful" Baba the Turk who "made every phrase count" (New York Times) and who you "loved from the first note" (Philadelphia Inquirer); a "terrific and touching Gertrude" with a "powerful voice" (ConcertNet.com); or a Marquise de Birkenfield who manages to be "both a fragile damsel … and an imperious aristocrat" (TalkinBroadway.com), she is the singing actor of choice for both comedic and dramatic contralto and mezzo-soprano roles.
Most recently, she appeared as Madame Armfeldt in a revue of A Little Night Music with Austin Shakespeare, in a performance the Austin American-Statesman called “incandescent”. She made her role and company debut as The Mother in The Consul with Dayton Opera, where she was hailed for her "impressive contralto" and "grace and vulnerability" (Rafael de Acha, HeardandSeen-International.com). She then returned to Alamo City Opera as the "sharply distinctive" Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music. At Austin Opera, she "sparkled" (Paul Robinson, LaScenaMusical.org) in one of her signature roles, the Marquise de Birkenfield, (La fille du regiment). She recently appeared as the mezzo soloist in Aaron Copland's In the Beginning with the Centenary Camerata and as Amneris in a concert version of Aida with Spotlight on Opera. She will next make her house debut at Shreveport Opera as Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, and later appear as Azucena in a concert of Il trovatore with Spotlight on Opera.
In recent seasons, Ms. Sadler made her Atlanta Opera debut as an "agreeable" Gertrude in Romeo & Juliette, "her contralto voice lovely to hear" (Stephanie Adrian, Opera News), her Irving Symphony debut in the title role of Carmen, and both her singing and stage directing debuts with the Mediterranean Opera Festival in Caltagirone, Sicily. There she appeared in concert with internationally renowned soprano Nellie Miriaciou, tenors Giuseppe Filianotte and Giaocchino Lauro Li Vigni, and baritone Eric Dubin. Ms. Sadler revisited several signature roles, including her "smartly sung and portrayed" Marquise de Berkenfield in her company debut with Mill City Summer Opera; her "amusingly overripe" Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro with the New Orleans Opera Association; and Gertrude in Romeo & Juliette in a "standout performance with Austin Opera. She also made her company debut as Mrs. Quickly in Odyssey Opera's Sir John in Love, where Boston Classical Review praised her as a "dark-toned presence."
Ms. Sadler's extensive repertoire includes Ruth in Pirates of Penzance (Portland Opera); Mrs. Clancy in Hoiby's one-woman opera The Italian Lesson (Pine Mountain Music Festival; Alamo City Opera); Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti (Alamo City Opera); Prince Orlovksy in Die Fledermaus (Syracuse Opera); Mrs, Sedley in Peter Grimes (Chautauqua Opera), Marthe in Faust (Austin Opera, Central City Opera), and Marie in The Most Happy Fella (Tulsa Opera). An accomplished concert artist and recitalist, her repertoire includes the Beethoven 9th Symphony, the Verdi Requiem Elijah Handel's Messiah, the Mozart Coronation Mass Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the Bruckner Mass in F Minor, the Duruflé and Mozart Requiems, and the Elgar Sea Pictures.
Ms. Sadler is a graduate of the University of Texas, where she studied with veteran Metropolitan Opera star Mignon Dunn. She currently studies with Gioacchino Lauro Li Vigni. She resides in Austin with her husband, Eric, and is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate in Arts Administration at Goucher College.
Résumé
(Featured Credits)
Madame Armfeldt
A Little Night Music
Austin Shakespeare (2019)
The Mother
The Consul
Dayton Opera (2017)
Marquise de Berkenfield
La fille du regiment
Austin Opera & Intermountain Opera (2017)
Gertrude
Romeo et Juliette
Atlanta Opera (2016)
Florida Grand Opera (2012)
Marcellina
Le nozze di Figaro
New Orleans Opera Association (2015)
Kentucky Opera (2011)
Ruth
Pirates of Penzance
Portland Opera (2014)
Baba the Turk
The Rake’s Progress
Princeton Festival (2011)
Des Moines Opera (2006)
Ulrica (covering Stephanie Blythe)
Un Ballo in Maschera
Lyric Opera of Chicago (2010)
Katisha (covering Stephanie Blythe)
The Mikado
Lyric Opera of Chicago (2010)
Frugola, Zita, La Zia Principessa
Il Trittico
El Paso Opera (2008)
New Orleans Opera (2007)
Repertoire
Barber
Vanessa, The Old Baroness
Beethoven
Missa Solemnis
Symphony No. 9
Bernstein
Trouble in Tahiti, Dinah
Bruckner
Mass in F Minor
Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur
La Principessa
Donizetti
La Fille du Régiment, Marquise de Berkenfield
Dove
The Adventures of Pinocchio, Pigeon/Snail
Duruflé
Requiem
Elgar
Sea Pictures
Floyd
Cold Sassy Tree, Effie Belle Tate
Susannah, Mrs. McLean, Mrs. Ott
Gilbert & Sullivan
The Mikado, Katisha
HMS Pinafore, Buttercup
The Pirates of Penzance, Ruth
Giordano
Andrea Chenier
La Vecchia Madelon
Gounod
Faust, Martha
Romeo et Juliette, Gertrude
Handel
Messiah
Heggie
Dead Man Walking, Mrs. Patrick de Rocher
Hoiby
The Italian Lesson, Mrs. Clancy
J. Strauss
Die Fledermaus, Prince Orlovsky
Loesser
The Most Happy Fella, Marie
Mahler
Lieder eines Fahrende Gesellen
Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana, Mamma Lucia
Elijah
Menotti
The Consul, The Mother
Monteverdi
L'Incoranazione di Poppea, Arnalta
Moore
The Ballad of Baby Doe, Augusta Tabor
The Ballad of Baby Doe, Mama McCourt
Mozart
Coronation Mass
Requiem
Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcellina
Die Zauberflöte, Third Lady
Ponchielli
La Gioconda
La Cieca
Poulenc
Dialogues des Carmélites
Madame de Croissy
Dialogues des Carmélites
Mère Jeanne
Prokofiev
The Gambler, Suspicious Old Lady
The Gambler, Venerable Old Lady
Puccini
Madama Butterfly, Suzuki
Suor Angelica, La Zia Principessa
Suor Angelica, La Badessa
Gianni Schicchi, Zita
Il Tabarro, Frugola
Rodgers & Hammerstein
South Pacific, Bloody Mary
Rossini
The Barber of Seville, Berta
L'Italiana in Algeri, Zulma
Sondheim
A Little Night Music, Madame Armfeldt
Strauss
Elektra, Klytaemnestra
Elektra, First Maid
Stravinski
The Rake's Progress, Baba the Turk
Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin
Filipyevna
Vaughan Williams
Sir John in Love, Mrs. Quickly
Verdi
Falstaff, Dame Quickly
Il Trovatore, Azucena
Un Ballo in Maschera, Ulrica
Otello, Emilia
La Traviata, Annina
Aida, Amneris
Requiem
Wagner
Das Rheingold, Erda
Die Walküre, Fricka
Die Walküre, Schwertleite
Ward
The Crucible, Tituba
The Crucible, Rebecca Nurse
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