Clíona Cassidy is a soprano, composer and experimental vocalist from Dublin. She has worked regularly for Scottish Opera since 2012, and is a long time member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Her compositional practice is focused around operatic improvisation and she has premiered a song cycle “Hiatus” with the New String Collective, and co-created an opera “Silk Threads” with Raymond macDonald that was featured on BBC Radio 3. She teaches vocal improvisation and has given workshops at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
NEWS
SILK THREADS - Clíona Cassidy and Raymond macDonald
Our OPERA is coming soon!
New String Collective and Clíona Cassidy at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's TECTONICS Festival, May 4th 2025, City Halls, Glasgow.
Performing HIATUS (Cassidy) alongside new works devised by the collective.
AUD THE DEEP MINDED (Joanna Nicholson)
Aud - Clíona Cassidy
Clarinet - Joanna Nicholson
Horn - Andy Saunders
Electronics Alistair MacDonald
Projection Art - Kirsty Anderson
March 27th - Glasgow University
March 28th - Cromarty Arts Trust
March 29th - Portsoy Salmon Bothy
Scottish Opera THE MERRY WIDOW
(chorus/Grisette)
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: 30th April - 24th May
Eden Court, Inverness: 22nd May - 24th May
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: 29th May - 7th June
His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen: 12th June - 14th June
Opera Holland Park, London: 19th June - 28th June
Scottish Opera ALBERT HERRING
(Harry)
13th November - Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
18th & 22nd October - Theatre Royal, Glasgow
5th & 6th September - Corn Exchange, Haddington
"A mixture of folk-inspired songs and operatic improvised dreamscapes...so brittle, so fine... it's a beautiful album." BBC Radio 3 (Rain Shadow)