Catriona Smith

soprano

Catriona Smith
© Matthias Baus

The Scottish soprano Catriona Smith is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut jumping in at short notice to sing Lisa in La sonnambula in 2014, to sing the Mother in Hänsel und Gretel tonight. She has been a member of the Ensemble at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart since 1991, who awarded her the title of Kammersängerin in 2003. This season she is patron of the International Opera Studio in Stuttgart, during which her roles include Ortlinde(Die Walküre), Micaëa (Carmen), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), 2nd Dryad (Rusalka) and Berta (Il barbiere di siviglia). Her repertoire incluces Gilda (Rigoletto), Nanetta (Falstaff), Gretel and Gertrud  (Hänsel und Gretel), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Fiordiligi and Despina (Così fan tutte), Pamina and 1st Lady (Die Zauberflöte). Other roles during her time in Stuttgart have included Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Morgana (Alcina), Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Prinzessin Eudoxie (Die Jüdin / The Jewess). Guest engagements have taken her to Scottish Opera, the Staatsoper Berlin, Semperoper in Dresden, San Francisco and Amsterdam. After graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow in 1986 she joined the University of Toronto's Opera Studio and made her debut at Covent Garden in 1990.