Catherine Wyn-Rogers BiographyThe mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers was a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music. She studied with Meriel St Clair and earned several prizes including the Dame Clara Butt award. She continued her studies with Ellis Keeler and Diane Forlano.
She appears with the major British orchestras and choral societies and at the Three Choirs Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals. She is renowned for her performances with period instrument orchestras, including The Sixteen with Harry Christophers, the English Concert with Trevor Pinnock, the Academy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood and concerts with Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Hickox and Mark Elder.
Recent engagements have included appearances with the Philharmonia under Slatkin, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Haitink and Andrew Davis, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra under Rozhdestvensky, the European Youth Orchestra under Haitink and her début with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
She appears regularly on the opera stage and has worked with Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, English National Opera, Salzburg Festival, Bavarian State Opera, Netherlands Opera and is a regular guest at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She sings First Norn in Götterdämmerung, Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried under Pappano, and Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande under Rattle for the Royal Opera and Erda under Zubin Mehta in Valencia and Florence.
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