Catherine Martin

During 2019/20 the American mezzo-soprano portrayed Waltraute in Twilight: Gods at both Michigan Opera Theatre and Lyric Opera of Chicago. She recently sang Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung at the National Taichung Theatre in Taiwan. Among other highlights in recent seasons have been Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking; various roles of Wagner’s Ring cycle with Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony; Amneris in Aïda; Adalgisa in Norma; the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos; and Eva in An American Dream. Martin has appeared in many other contemporary-opera roles, among them Mary in Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me in its world premiere; Genevieve in Paul Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner; Tamara in Ben Moore’s Enemies, A Love Story; and Sara Mille in D. J. Sparr’s Approaching Ali.