Catherine Young
Opera Singer
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Catherine Young, from Oxford, UK, was awarded scholarships to train at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music before joining English National Opera on the Harewood Artist Programme.
She made her professional debut with the company in the Summer of 2011 as Hippolyta in Christopher Alden’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and spent eight seasons with ENO. She has performed all over the UK; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; London Coliseum; Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, among others. She has been directed by Sir David Poutney, Richard Jones CBE, Christopher and David Alden, and Simon McBurney. She has sung under the batons of Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner OBE, Mark Wigglesworth, Eun Sun Kim, Leo Hussein and Placido Domingo. |
What people say...
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“Catherine Young almost stole the show as a regulation traumatised, serially drunk and abused Pauline – bringing some point and much diversion to a cipherish character” - Opera Now
"Vocally plumptious" - The Sunday Times "Catherine Young's soft-grained mezzo-soprano glowed beautifully in Amastris' lament" - The Telegraph "impressed with true Handelian coloratura" - Opera Britannia Uk Catherine Young makes an impression as a Connolly-in-the-making, her Amastris both touching and impressively sung - The Arts Desk "chameleonic" - The Spectator "Distractingly good, however, is Catherine Young’s Pauline drunkenly tragic in her aria and full-Broadway vampish in the Intermezzo." - The Arts Desk |
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Repertoire
Opera
Bellini
Adalgisa Norma
Britten
Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Charpentier
Medea Medea
Handel
Amastris Xerxes
Zenobia Radamisto
Janacek
Fox The Cunning Little Vixen
Mozart
2nd Lady The Magic Flute
Offenbach
Voix de la Tombe Tales of Hoffman
Puccini
Kate Pinkerton Madame Butterfly
R. Strauss
Octavian Der Rosenkavalier
J. Strauss
Orlofsky Die Fledermaus
Tchaikovsky
Pauline The Queen of Spades
Verdi
Meg Page Falstaff
Wagner
Sieglinde Die Walküre
Brangaene Tristan and Isolde
2nd Norn Götterdämmerung
Magdalena Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg