Catherine Wyn-Rogers

Catherine Wyn-Rogers makes her Houston Grand Opera debut this fall as Mrs. Sedley in Britten’s Peter Grimes, a role she has sung at Netherlands Opera and which she will perform later this season at Royal Opera, Covent Garden and for her debut at Teatro alla Scala. She also recorded the role with the London Symphony Orchestra under the musical direction of Sir Colin Davis, for the LSO Live label. Ms. Wyn-Rogers has performed major roles at Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Dresden Semperoper, Bordeaux Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, Netherlands Opera and the Salzburg Festival, and has worked with such conductors as Sir Charles Mackerras, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Colin Davis, Roger Norrington and Zubin Mehta. She recently sang Waltraute in Wagner’s Götterdämerung at the Palacio de las Artes in Valencia and the Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence—she has also performed Erda in Wagner’s Siegfried at both of those companies and at the Teatro Comunale in Florence; Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Ms. Wyn-Rogers is a regular guest artist at English National Opera, where she has sung Suzuki in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, La Cieca in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda and Bianca in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, among other roles. Her numerous credits at Royal Opera, Covent Garden include the Wagnerian Roles of the First Norn in Götterdämerung, Erda in Das Rheingold and Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Sosostris in Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage and Genevieve in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Last summer, she appeared as the Housekeeper in Richard Strauss’s Die schweigsame Frau at Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Ms. Wyn-Rogers can be heard on recordings of Mozart’s Vesperi Solenni (Deutsche Grammophon), R. Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music (Decca), and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius on EMI. She can also be heard in Graham Johnson’s Complete Schubert Edition for Hyperion Records, and on the Scottich Chamber Orchestra’s recording of the Mozart Requiem, conducted by the late Sir Charles Mackerras (Linn Records). Next year she will sing Auntie in Peter Grimes at Royal Opera, Covent Garden.