Praised by The Washington Post for her “gorgeous, warm voice that you want to keep listening to,” American mezzo-soprano Catherine Martin continues to make an impact in repertoire ranging from Verdi and Wagner to Strauss and Bellini. Last season, she returned to the Metropolitan Opera to cover Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking and Preziosilla in La forza del destino. In addition, she made her Atlanta Opera debut as Waltraute in Die Walküre, and she returned to Des Moines Metro Opera to sing Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande. This season, she returns to the Met to cover Giulietta in Les contes d’Hoffmann and The Atlanta Opera to sing Juno in Semele, and she joins the Sacramento Philharmonic to sing Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and Detroit Opera to sing the District Attorney in The Central Park Five.

Highlights from recent seasons include her role debut as Fricka in Dayton Opera’s Das Rheingold; Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana with Opera Colorado; her return to Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover Eboli in Don Carlos; Marguerite (cover) in Berlioz’s Le damnation de Faust with the Metropolitan Opera; and performances in various roles from Wagner’s Ring cycle with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Dallas Symphony, and National Taichung Theater in Taiwan.

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Catherine holds her master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas.