| Catrine graduated
with a Masters degree in music from the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama in London, and continues to be taught by Jessica Cash.
Recent operatic roles include the Kitchen
Boy and Nymph in Dvorak’s Rusalka at Iford, Juliet in a new production
of Britten's The Little Sweep for the 2004 Britten Festival in Aldeburgh,
Laurette in the first performance in English of Bizet’s Doctor Miracle,
First Bridesmaid in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with Savoy Opera
at the Savoy Theatre, London, and the world première of Owen Bourne's
"pub opera" The Salisbury Songs.
Last summer she performed with Opera Holland
Park in productions of Verdi’s Macbeth and Bellini’s La Sonnambula.
Recent early music engagements include recitals at the Oxford Lieder
Festival and Cirencester Early Music Festival, Handel’s L’Allegro
at the Snape Proms with the Britten-Pears Young Artists, and performances
of Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Bremen, Germany, and at the
Globe Theatre in London.
Catrine has also sung the lead in many of
the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including Josephine (HMS Pinafore),
Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), Yum-Yum (The Mikado) and Rose Maybud
(Ruddigore). Forthcoming engagements include a run of Donizetti’s
L’Elisir d’Amore with Grange Park Opera.i
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