Bio
American mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook has excelled in a wide range of roles with leading companies throughout the United States. For her performance as the title character in Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne, Opera Today wrote “to say that Ms. Cook was a revelation is an understatement, since she stamped the part as her own, and experienced a triumph for her sensational performance…Ms. Cook is possessed of a round mezzo tone of great beauty, admirable control and potent power in all ranges and at any volume.” During the 2022-23 Season, Cook returned to Opera Colorado in Cavalleria rusticana (Mamma Lucia) and debuted in Dialogues of the Carmelites (Mère Jeanne) for San Francisco Opera’s Centennial Season. During the Carmelites run in November 2022, Cook was awarded the San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Opera Medal, the company’s highest honor, in acknowledgment of her thirty-one years of performance with the company. Later that season, Ms. Cook sang selections from Copland’s Old American Songs for the 60th Anniversary Gala of the Golden State Youth Orchestra, appearing with fellow soloist David Kim, Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Engagements of note for the 2023-24 Season include Terence Blanchard’s Champion (Kathy Hagen, cover) with Lyric Opera of Chicago and Cavalleria rusticana (Mamma Lucia) with Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.