Catharine Woodward

In 2024 Catharine made her Bayreuth Festspiele debut as Gerhilde DIE WALKÜRE, and will reprise this role at Bayreuth in 2025 while also covering Brünnhilde SIEGFRIED and GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG.  Other engagements include Brünnhilde DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN with Regents Opera in London, Isolde (Act II) TRISTAN UND ISOLDE with the Akademisches Orchester Zürich at the Tonhalle Zurich and Stadthaus Winterthur and Kundry in a concert performance of the second act of PARSIFAL with New Palace Opera in London.

Upcoming engagements include Gerhilde DIE WALKÜRE for Oper Wuppertal, Aufseherin ELEKTRA with the Dresden Philharmonie conducted by Donald Runnicles, and her role debut in the UK as Isolde TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, a role she will also cover for Dutch National Opera.

Other operatic engagement include Eva DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and Leonora LA FORZA DEL DESTINO and Alice Ford FALSTAFF  with Fulham Opera, Aksinya (cover) LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK and Gerhilde (cover) DIE WALKÜRE for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Kostelnicka (cover) JENUFA for English National Opera, Donna Elvira DON GIOVANNI for Diva Opera UK, Edna TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL and Sarah CLEMENCY for Highbury Opera Theatre and the title-role ELEKTRA in a workshop with Regents Opera Orchestra

Catharine studied Music at the University of Durham, Vocal Performance at Trinity Laban and the Alexander Gibson Opera School at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has worked at English National Opera (Opera Works), the Aix-en-Provence Festival and many other prestigious companies and festivals. Career highlights include performing at Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Coronation Festival in 2014 and various television appearances. In 2017 she appeared in comedy series “Taskmaster” on ITV4 and in January 2018 she performed excerpts of MADAMA BUTTERFLY as a featured artist in the TV drama “Next Of Kin”. 

During her time in Scotland she was the subject of a documentary for the Open University (Catharine Rogers: Future Diva?), and performed across Scotland in a touring production of THE MERRY WIDOW with Scottish Opera, as well as at the Edinburgh International & Fringe festivals.