Robin Leigh Massie has established herself as a versatile artist in opera, concert and musical theatre. She made her New York City Opera debut as Flora in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of The Screw. She has also performed with Tulsa, Kentucky, Glimmerglass, Princeton, Trenton Civic and Rockland Opera companies, and with the Opera Festival of New Jersey Outreach Program. Her many operatic roles include Papagena in The Magic Flute, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Nannetta in Falstaff, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Sofia in Il Signor Bruschino (Rossini). She also played the role of Young Clara in the World Premiere of Billy and Zelda with Opera Delaware.
In musical theatre, Ms. Massie performed the role of Jellylorum in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s CATS in Hamburg, Germany. She has also sung with the Bucks County Playhouse, Pocono Playhouse and Gateway Playhouse. Roles include Yum Yum in The Mikado, Marian Paroo in The Music Man, Laurey Williams in Oklahoma! and Lily in The Secret Garden. In the summer of 1996, Ms. Massie toured South America singing the role of Christine in Ivan Jacobs’ The Phantom of the Opera.
In concert repertoire, Ms. Massie has performed the Fauré Requiem with the Susquehanna Valley Chorale and Carmina Burana with The Bucks County Choral Society and The Pennsbury Community Chorus. She has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for five consecutive seasons performing “Yuletide Celebration”. In 2003 she sang with the New York City Ballet in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and can be heard on a recording with the Westminster Choir (Like As a Hart) as the soprano soloist in Mozart's “Laudate Dominum.” She was also a finalist in the Jenny Lind Voice Competition.
In addition to performing, Ms. Massie has excelled as a teacher of voice and opera. She has taught private voice out of the home since 1991. From 1993-1995, she was a member of the faculty at Westminster Conservatory, the Community Music School of Westminster Choir College, and, since 2004, she has been an Adjunct Instructor of Voice at Philadelphia Biblical University. Ms. Massie has also served with PBU's Opera Workshop in several capacities: in 2004 she was the choreographer for Amahl and the Night Visitors; in 2005, she was the Assistant Stage Director for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and the Stage Director for Gianni Schicchi; and from 2006 to present, she is the Director of Opera Workshop, serving as producer and music director for opera scenes and productions of Fiddler on the Roof and Oklahoma! In fall 2008, Ms. Massie will produce "Come To The Ball," a program of scenes from the various opera and musical versions of Cinderella along with Warren Martin's The True Story of Cinderella.
A native of Austin, Texas, Ms. Massie has a Bachelor's degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College and a Master's degree in Voice/Opera Performance from Yale University.
