Catherine Hopper

Catherine Hopper sang with us in March 2011 in our performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus.  Catherine studied Music at the University of Leeds and the Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar, Germany. She graduated from Royal Academy Opera, where she studied with Elizabeth Ritchie and Jonathan Papp, before completing her studies at the National Opera Studio. She currently studies with Noelle Barker.

At Royal Academy Opera Catherine Hopper sang Lucretia (Rape of Lucretia), Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera), Mezzo-Actress in Judith Weir’s Night at the Chinese Opera, Zita (Gianni Schicci) and Marta (Iolanta). Since completing her formal studies, her roles have included Dinah in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti with Psappha Ensemble at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Buxton Festival, Lucretia for Key Productions at the Arcola Theatre, the Kitchen Boy in Dvorak’s Rusalka for Opera North, Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) for Opera Holland Park, Popova in Walton’s The Bear for Mahogany Opera, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöteat Clonter Opera, Mme Larina in Eugene Onegin and Mrs Herring in Albert Herring for British Youth Opera.

Catherine has worked with such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis at the 2008 BBC Proms and Valery Gergiev at the 2010 Verbier Festival. She gave a lunchtime recital at the 2009 Cheltenham Music Festival with Simon Lepper and made her Wigmore Hall debut with Joseph Middleton. She also had the privilege of sharing a recital with Sir Thomas Allen, accompanied by John Reid, as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival. In 2010 she returned to the Wigmore Hall with Joseph Middleton in a recital supported by the Kirckman Concert Society and a recital with Julius Drake, in which they premiered Michael Zev Gordon’s Mandelstam Settings.

 

Future engagements include a tour of operatic arias with Scottish Opera, and Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte for Garsington Opera 2011.