Cindy Snyder

Cindy Snyder moves with equal ease from opera to pop to musical theater. She has been the featured soloist in numerous symphony and opera concerts, and her repertoire includes more than 40 roles.

Having spent her earlier years studying piano, Snyder began her training in vocal performance while attending California State University, Fullerton, where she was the recipient of a full music scholarship and began her study of opera. While attending the university, she toured Japan and Korea, singing in the Korean Opera House as well as performing for the United States military on the aircraft carrier the USS Midway.

Snyder has appeared with such companies as Opera Pacific, Long Beach Opera, West Coast Opera Theatre, Pasadena Lyric Opera, Bel Canto Opera, Livermore Valley Opera, Inland Cities Opera, Riverside Opera, and Fresno Opera. Some of her roles include Mimi in La Bohème, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Violetta in La Traviata, Micaela in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Gretel in Hansel and Grete*, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Isabelle/Madeline in The Face on the Barroom Floor, and the title roles of Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica, Tosca, and Norma.

Conductors and directors with whom Snyder has worked include Nico Castel, William Vendice of both the Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera, Frank Fetta, Henry Holt, Sherrill Milnes, William Yannuzzi of Baltimore Opera, Edna Garabedian, Christopher Alden, Dick Jones, Virginia Zeani at Indiana University, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Mila Filatova of St. Petersburg Opera in Russia.

She acquired her Master of Music in vocal performance at University of Redlands, where she joined the voice faculty at both Redlands as well as the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California.

• B.A., California State University, Fullerton
• M.M., University of Redlands