Kiwi-British soprano Catherine Hooper is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London and the universities of Cambridge and St Andrews. Catherine was the recipient of multiple prizes at the 2025 Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Awards, and has participated in several UK young artist programmes, including Opera Prelude, SongEasel, and OperaUpClose. In 2026 she will join the Wexford Factory in Ireland, where she will perform two roles in newly written operas, and she will also make her role debut as Micaëla in Devon Opera’s Carmen.
Catherine’s recent operatic roles include Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte, International Opera Academy Ghent), Musetta (La bohème, Devon Opera), Senta (The Flying Dutchman, OperaUpClose), Vixen Sharp-Ears (The Cunning Little Vixen, Byre Opera), and Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw, Byre Opera). At the Royal College of Music, she covered the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) and looks forward to making her German debut in this role in 2027. Catherine also performs frequently in concert and oratorio repertoire, with a particular passion for art song, and she makes regular recital tours around China.