Biography
Métis multi-disciplinary artist and mezzo-soprano Rebecca Cuddy is acknowledged as ‘the next generation who are going to do incredible things’ (The Whole Note). She is one of the recipients of the Dora Award for Outstanding Ensemble Work in Soundstreams’ Two Odysseys; Pimootewin and Gállábártnit and the inaugural winner of the Rose-Ellen Nichols Award in the Performing Arts. This season saw Rebecca in the world premiere of Li Keur – Riel’s Heart of the North with Manitoba Opera and, the world premiere of Bullrusher with West Edge Opera. In concert she returned to Soundstreams for their Electric Messiah and joined Symphony New Brunswick for Mozart’s Requiem. Past seasons include her debut at Pacific Opera Victoria for Braunfels’ Die Vögel, with Soundstreams (premiere – Frehner’s L.E.X.), the New Orford String Quartet, the Toronto Consort, as well as a performance with members of the TSO and Yo Yo Ma in support of Toronto’s CAMH Centre. In 2020-21, she appeared in multiple digital releases including her Canadian Opera Company debut in Voices of Mountains, singing the titular role in OperaQ’s Medusa’s Children, Soundstreams’ Garden of Vanished Pleasures, as well as Encounters: Indigenous Voices and Shatter with Toronto Concert Orchestra. Rebecca was the 2021 Indigenous Artist in Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada, where she studied directing, playwriting, acting and design.