Katherine Broderick
Soprano
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Excerpts from live BBC Broadcasts with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, 2022
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Following her recent success at Stadttheater Klagenfurt singing Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung, Katherine is delighted to return to Klagenfurt to sing Isolde, opening on 18 September
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Adding a new role to her repertoire this season, Katherine Broderick sings Santuzza in Masacagni’s opera Cavalleria rusticana. Performances from 23 to 29 September at Blackheath Halls.
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Katherine Broderick adds Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung to her repertoire with performances at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in September and October, thus completing all three appearances of Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Ring...
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Katherine Broderick was the winner of the 2007 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She studied at the National Opera Studio and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and spent a year at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ Leipzig. She was an English National Opera Harewood Artist and now studies with Anthony Roden.
Highlights
- Brünnhilde Die Walküre – Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden
- Brünnhilde Siegfried – Opera North; Oper Leipzig
- Brünnhilde Götterdämmerung; Isolde Tristan und Isolde – Stadttheater Klagenfurt
- Alice Ford Falstaff; Elsa Lohengrin; Isolde Tristan und Isolde; Ariadne Ariadne auf Naxos – Opéra National de Montpellier
- Mahler Rückert-Lieder; Wagner Wesendonck Lieder – Ulster Orchestra
- Strauss Vier letzte Lieder – Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León; Queensland Symphony Orchestra
- Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw – Garsington Opera
Biography
Wagner roles are increasingly prominent in her diary with appearances as Sieglinde Die Walküre for the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe; Brünnhilde Die Walküre with Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Brünnhilde Siegfried for Oper Leipzig. She recently added…
This biography should not be edited without permission from Maxine Robertson Management.Wagner roles are increasingly prominent in her diary with appearances as Sieglinde Die Walküre for the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe; Brünnhilde Die Walküre with Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Brünnhilde Siegfried for Oper Leipzig.
She recently added Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt to complete all three appearances of Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and returns to Klagenfurt in the current season to sing Isolde Tristan und Isolde.
As I contrast, Katherine also enjoys singing comic roles, including Alice Ford, in a filmed new production of Falstaff, with Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier, Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia, at Opéra national de Paris and, this season, Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera North in Leeds.
Britten also features highly in her repertoire, having sung Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw for Garsington Opera and Mrs Coyle in Owen Wingrave for Opéra national de Lorraine and other role highlights include Ariadne auf Naxos for Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier and Leonore Fidelio for Garsington Opera in concert, recorded for BBC Radio 3.
A committed concert singer, Katherine appears regularly with leading symphony orchestras in the UK and abroad making her debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Sir Simon Rattle singing Helmwige Die Walküre, and Strauss Vier letzte Lieder with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and the Ulster Orchestra, where she also recorded Wagner Wesendonck Lieder.
Most recently she has sung Mahler Rückert-Lieder with the Ulster Orchestra; excerpts from Wagner Götterdämmerung with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, and Schubert Winterreise at the Oxford Lieder and Leeds Lieder festivals with Kathryn Stott.
A busy recording schedule and a growing discography includes repertoire such as Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung with Mark Elder and the Hallé; Mendelssohn Songs and Duets with Eugene Asti on Hyperion; Britten Songs with Malcolm Martineau for Onyx Classics; Schumann The Complete Songs with Graham Johnson on Hyperion; Mussorgsky Songs and Romances with Sergey Rybin for Stone Records and Lieder for the Turn of a Century – a recital disc of Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg with Malcolm Martineau for Champs Hill Records.
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