Currently residing in the UK, leading Australian mezzo soprano Catherine Carby has performed with major opera companies and orchestras including the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, English Touring Opera, The Royal Ballet, Opera Australia, West Australian Opera, Victoria State Opera, Opera Queensland, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic and Ulster Orchestras, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gardner Chamber Orchestra Boston, the Sydney, West Australian, Melbourne, Tasmanian and Queensland Orchestras, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.     

Alongside a return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Catherine’s engagements in 2022/23 include the roles of Waltraute (Ring Cycle) for Longborough Festival Opera, Malcolm (La Donna del Lago) for Buxton International Festival, the title role (Médée) for Pinchgut Opera and on the concert platform, Verdi Requiem (with Chief Conductor Jaime Martín), Handel Messiah (Sir Andrew Davis conducting) both with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and a celebration of the work of Karl Jenkins at Royal Festival Hall, conducted by Sir Karl himself.

Recent engagements include Siegrune (The Ring Cycle), Minerva (The Return of Ulysses), and Antonia’s mother (Tales of Hoffmann) for the Royal Opera House; Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) for Longborough Festival Opera and Teatro São Carlos Lisbon; Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride (title role), Rodrigo (Pia di Tolomei, Donizetti) and Diana (La Calisto) for English Touring Opera; Haydn Paukenmesse with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; and Katharina Schratt (Mayerling) for The Royal Ballet London.

Her recordings include Cellier’s The Mountebanks; Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley; The Love for Three Oranges and Der Rosenkavalier for Opera Australia; and Die Walküre (Siegrune), Les contes d’Hoffmann, Mayerling and La Traviata for the ROH, Covent Garden.

As a board member of Swap’ra UK (Supporting Women and Parents in Opera), Catherine is committed to achieving gender and pay equality in the opera industry .