Robin Leigh Massie

• Email Address: rmassie@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-921-7100
• Fax: 609-921-8829
• Office: Taylor 26

Robin Leigh Massie, soprano, 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.  She also 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 six consecutive seasons performing “Yuletide Celebration”. She has sung 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.” Ms. Massie has portrayed the roles of Clarence & Boy in concert performances of Gordon Getty’s opera Plump Jack with the New Mexico Symphony and The Culiacan Symphony in Mexico.  Recently she was the soprano soloist in Haydn’s The Creation with the Philadelphia Biblical University Community Chorus and Orchestra.  In May 2009, she was in The Street Chorus of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass with The Utah Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Keith Lockhart. 

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 from Yale University.   She is currently a member of the voice faculty of Westminster Choir College of Rider University and at Philadelphia Biblical University.