​​​​​​Hailed as “outstanding” (The Guardian) and “a fabulous young mezzo, the voice full of crimson depth and character” (Opera Magazine), mezzo-soprano Indyana Schneider is building a reputation as a compelling presence on international opera and concert stages.

 

A graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford University and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover, Germany, she recently completed two years as a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera.

 

Highlights in Zurich included a lead role in the world Premiere of Jonathan Dove’s In 80 Tagen um die Welt, as well as Marchesa Melbiea (Il Viaggio a Reims) and Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). She also sang in contemporary operas: Jakob Lenz (Rihm) and Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig (Penderbayne) and covered Komponist, Stefano, Nicklause, and Page (Salome). Indyana completed her time at the studio singing the Königin / Alt 2 in a dramatised production of Mendelssohn’s Elias directed by Andreas Homoki and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and then in concert with Cecilia Bartoli and Orchestra La Scintilla, conducted by Gianluca Capuano.

 

Since finishing in Zurich in summer 2025, Indyana has added a vast number of roles to her repertoire. These include her State Opera South Australia debut as Tisbe in La Cenerentola alongside an all-star cast including Anna Dowsley, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, and Helena Dix; her Buxton International Festival debut as Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito; and her Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre debut singing the lead role of the Traveler in the world premiere of Žibuoklė Martinaitytė's opera Upside Down to acclaim in the Lithuanian and international media.
 

​"Headed by Indyana Schneider's penetrating performance as the Traveler, highly attuned to the work's combination of stillness and movement..." 

- Opera Now, 2026

 

With Opera North, Indyana makes her debut singing Maddalena (Rigoletto) and covers Olga (Eugene Onegin). Later this year, she returns to Lithuania to sing Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream followed by Wellgunde (cover) in Götterdamerung with the Royal Ballet and Ballet in London. She completes her operatic season singing [ANNOUNCEMENT COMING].

 

Past operatic highlights include Indyana’s Sydney Opera House debut singing Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte) and covering Christophe Dumaux as Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice); singing Zita opposite Sir Bryn Terfel’s Gianni Schicchi, conducted by Domingo Hindoyan with the Liverpool Philharmonic; her German debut at the Theater für Niedersachsen as Mércèdes in Carmen; singing a cashier in Neuwirth's Orlando at the Wiener Staatsoper as well as in the semichorus of Handel's Ariodante with Les Talens Lyrique and Christophe Rousset also at the Wiener Staatsoper, and a tour singing Carmen in Carmen with Kent Chamber Opera. As an Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera in 2023, she won the Helen Clarke Award covering the Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos.  

 

Indyana also enjoys devising regular themed Liederabende with Grzegorz Fleszar in Zürich and looks forward to: singing excerpts from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Windsor & Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra and her American debut singing with Nathanial LaNasa in NYFOS NEXT, New York City. This concert is particularly close to her heart, as it is the premiere of her creative collaboration with Cecilia Livingston. As the Bergos Artist in Residence, Indyana commissioned a set of new songs by Livingston set to her original poetry and a Sapphic fragment translated by Dr Thomas Nelson.

 

Other recent concert performances include: Zemlinsky’s Maiblumen blühten überall with members of the Zurich Philharmonia, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Borken for the 800 Jubiläums-Konzert with the Westfalen Philharmonie, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with Lisa May-Appenzeller in Zürich.

 

Indyana has received awards from the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation, the Walter und Charlotte Hamel Opernwettbewerb, and has sung in masterclasses with: Sir Antonio Pappano, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dame Emma Kirkby, Stephen Langridge, Katie Mitchell, Andreas Scholl, James Conlon, and Dame Ann Murray.

 

For a detailed CV and repertoire list, please contact Indyana.