Catherine Carby

Currently residing in the UK, leading Australian mezzo soprano Catherine Carby has performed with many major opera companies and orchestras including the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, English Touring Opera, The Royal Ballet, Opera Australia, West Australian Opera, Victoria State Opera, Opera Queensland, Sydney, West Australian, Melbourne, Tasmanian and Queensland Orchestras, and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to return invitations to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and Longborough Festival Opera, this year Catherine will perform Idamante (Idomeneo) for English Touring Opera, in Karl Jenkins’ 75^th birthday celebrations and make her debut with Pinchgut Opera.

Recent engagements include Siegrune (The Ring Cycle), Minerva (The Return of Ulysses), and Antonia’s mother (Tales of Hoffmann) for the Royal Opera House; Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) for Longborough Festival Opera; Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride (title role), Rodrigo (Pia di Tolomei, Donizetti) and Diana (La Calisto) for English Touring Opera; Haydn Paukenmesse with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Elijah at the Hexham Festival; Nita, (The Mountebanks) with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) at Teatro São Carlos Lisbon, and Katharina Schratt (Mayerling) for The Royal Ballet London.