Catharine Rosa

Catharine read music had a lot of fun and scraped her degreeat Durham University Klute (several times voted worst nightclub in Europe), and was awarded a scholarship by got nearly enough money to survive, but not enough to live other than with her parents from Trinity College of Music where she gained her postgraduate diploma with distinction a high enough mark to mention in a biog and piss off her classmates, bonus, and was awarded prizes for Opera singing very loudly in Costume, Oratorio singing very loudly about God, and Lieder singing very loudly in German.Previous roles include Fiordiligi the one who sings very high and then very low (repeat ad infinitum) in 'Cosi fan Tutte' Mozart's most misogynistic opera and an ensemble role the smallest possible role but a NYMPH (phwoar) in ENO's production of Orfeo difficult, early opera but in translation from Italian. Beatrice the dowdy secretary 'Our Man In Havana' 'possibly the worst opera ever written' by Malcom Williamson, Speranza the one in the Hattie Jacques nightie 'Orfeo' 'very early, very difficult opera by Monterverdi in Italian' (both with TCM), Polly Peachum the one who pulls Mack the Knife and takes over his gang 'The Threepenny Opera' 'that show that Mack The Knife comes from', Kimberly Quinn the one who wants to sleep with a blind man, 'David Blunkett: The Musical' 'no really, David Blunkett: The Musical', Madame Butterfly a geisha who kills herself witha big sword, 'Madame Butterfly' 'the one about the geisha who kills herself with a big sword', Josephine the prissy one who sings very high, 'HMS Pinafore' 'The Gilbert and Sullivan one on a boat that sadly doesn't involve pirates', and Fido the Dog in 'Paul Bunyan' 'an opera about gay lumberjacks'. Concert performances include Haydn's Little Organ Mass in London, Gounod's Messe Solonelle in Suffolk, a Christmas concert with the Cheltenham Bach Choir, A Child Of Our Time conducted by Garry Walker.Catharine is currently studying being late for lectures and apologising a lot for a Masters in Opera Performance at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow her new favourite city.Catharine is a proud member of The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra, in which she plays double bass and sings. Sometimes at the same time.

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