Catherine Hopper

Catherine Hopper studied Music at the University of Leeds and the Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar‚ Germany (First Class Hons BMus). She graduated from the Royal Academy Opera with a DipRAM and the Vice-Principal’s Prize and recently completed her studies at the National Opera Studio.  Whilst at RAM and NOS she studied with Elizabeth Ritchie and Jonathan Papp‚ and currently studies with Noelle Barker.
Recent and forthcoming roles include Dinah Trouble in Tahiti with Psappha‚ Kitchen Boy Rusalka with Opera North‚ Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel for Opera Holland Park‚ Popova The Bear for Mahogany Opera‚ Lucretia in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia‚ Ramiro La Finta Giardiniera‚ Mezzo-Actress A Night at the Chinese Opera‚ Zita Gianni Schicci and Marta Iolantha‚ conducted by Steuart Bedford (all for RAO)‚ Second Lady Die Zauberflote at Clonter Opera and at Garsington‚ Mme. Larina Eugene Onegin and Mrs. Herring Albert Herring for British Youth Opera‚ both directed by Will Kerley and conducted by Peter Robinson.  

Concerts include a lunchtime recital at the Cheltenham Music Festival 2009‚ L’Enfance du Christ with the Choir of London at the Cadogan Hall conducted by Colin Davis‚ Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Raymond Gubbay at the Barbican‚ Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music at the BBC Proms with Sir Andrew Davies and the BBC Symphony Orchestra‚ Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire as part of the South Bank Max Festival and subsequent cover at ROH‚ Elgar’s Sea Pictures at St. John’s Smith Square with the YMSO and Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius at RAH with Concerts from Scratch and Brian Kay.  Oratorio includes Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Jeremy Jackman‚ Durufflé’s Requiem‚ Vivaldi’s Gloria with Ronald Corp and Emma Kirkby‚ Mozart’s Requiem at St. Martin-in-the-Fields‚ Haydn’s Nelson Mass with Jonathan Wilcocks and Bliss’s Pastoral.  She has taken part in Masterclasses with Ann Murray‚ Malcolm Martineau‚ Roger Vignoles‚ Thomas Hampson‚ Dennis O’Neill‚ Udo Rhineman‚ Paul Kiesgen‚ Julian Pike and Felicity Palmer.  A keen recitalist‚ she recently made her Wigmore Hall debut with accompanist Joseph Middleton as a Maisie Lewis award winner and shared a recital with Sir Thomas Allen‚ accompanied by John Reid as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival.  Other recitals include the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (for ROSL) and the National Portrait Gallery both with Simon Lepper‚ an evening at the Wigmore Hall performing the music of Ronald Corp‚ a Kirckman recital‚ and a performance of the Mandelstam Song Cycle with Julius Drake at the Wigmore Hall.