The mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers was a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, studying with Meriel St Clair and gaining several prizes, including the Dame Clara Butt Award. She continued her studies with Ellis Keeler and now works with Diane Forlano. She has worked with Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Semperoper, Dresden, Teatro Real, Madrid, De Nederlandse Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and appeared at the Salzburger Festspiele. She is a regular guest of English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. Most recently she has sung Erda and Waltraute (Götterdämmerung) under Zubin Mehta in both Valencia and Florence. She works extensively in the recital and concert hall, appearing regularly at the Three Choirs Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, BBC Proms, and at the Wigmore Hall. On the concert platform Catherine Wyn-Rogers has sung under conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Bernard Haitink, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Sir Roger Norrington. Her large discography includes, for Chandos, Berkeley’s Four Poems of St Teresa of Ávila, Bantock’s Omar Khayyám, Foulds’s A World Requiem, and the role of The Old Baroness in Barber’s Vanessa.