“Catharine Woodward (a superb Elisabetta in Fulham Opera’s Don Carlo in 2018) seemed to be living the role [of Leonora] and sang it with both rich amplitude and sensitivity to detail”
“Simply staged, and decently sung, especially by ... Catharine Woodward, as a feisty Eva with a big, keen-edged soprano”
“Falstaff sparred deliciously with Catharine’s Alice Ford - his match in every way, a minxy housewife who didn’t need her alarming hot pink and leopard print wardrobe to dominate every scene she was in”
“As Iernin, Catharine Rogers was the uncontestable star of the show. She has a powerful dramatic soprano voice with a rich, full sound ”
Catharine is a British dramatic soprano resident in Germany. Since moving into the dramatic repertoire she has been twice in the live finals of the Lauritz Melchior (Wagner) Competition in Denmark, and has been selected as one of the top singers in NYIOPs ANON:DE audition project. In February 2022 she made her debut as Leonora di Vargas La Forza Del Destino for Regent’s Opera in London.
Catharine studied Music at the University of Durham, Vocal Performance at Trinity Laban & at the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has worked at English National Opera, Scottish Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and many other prestigious companies and festivals. Career highlights include a documentary for the Open University - Future Diva, and performing at Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Coronation Festival in 2014. In 2017 she appeared in comedy series “Taskmaster” on Dave & also demonstrated the function of the vocal tract by singing Puccini in an MRI scanner for the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. In January 2018 she performed excerpts of Madama Butterfly as a featured artist in ITV drama “Next Of Kin”.
Her opera roles include Eva Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Elisabetta Don Carlo, Mimi La Boheme (Regent’s Opera), Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Diva Opera UK), Alice Ford Falstaff (Fulham Opera), Edna Tobias & The Angel and Sarah Clemency (both Highbury Opera Theatre). She is currently preparing Brünnhilde for Regents Opera’s new Ring Cycle in 2023 & 2024.
Photographs by Tom Medwell