ABOUT

Indyana Schneider is an Australian Mezzo-Soprano currently singing with the International Opera Studio (IOS) at the Zürich Opera. She studied a BA in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford University, and a Masters in Opera at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medein, Hannover.

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Most recently, she has sung at the Wiener Staatsoper, Zurich Opernhaus, Sydney Opera House, with Garsington Opera, and the European Opera Centre alongside Sir Bryn Terfel.

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Last season, Indyana covered the Komponist in Garsington Opera's new production of Ariadne auf Naxos, for which she won their Helen Clarke Award. She sang Femme Grecque in Iphigénie en Tauride and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Opernhaus Zürich, and returned to the Sydney Opera House to sing Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte and to cover Christophe Dumaux as Orpheo in Gluck's Orpheo ed Euridice.

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This season at the Opernhaus Zürich, she sings in two world premieres - as Martina in Wir Pfeifen auf den Gurkenköniög (Penderbayne) and as Aouda in Jonathan Dove's new opera In 80 Tagen um die Welt. She also sings as the Königin in a dramatised Elias directed by Andreas Homoki (Mendelssohn), as Marchesa Melibea in Il Viaggio a Reims, and in Jakob Lenz (Rhim).

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She is covering: Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos); Stefano (Roméo et Juliette), Page (Salome), and Nicklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann).

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For a detailed CV, please contact Indyana at: indyana.schneider@hotmail.com