In her native Australia, Catherine Carby has performed with companies including Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, National Opera of Canberra, Pinchgut Opera, Victoria State Opera and West Australian Opera. European engagements have included performances with the Royal Opera, London, English National Opera, Buxton Festival Opera, English Touring Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon.
Her extensive discography includes the BBC Music Magazine Award-winning recordings of Arnold’s The Dancing Master and Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley (Resonus Classics); Bantock’s The Seal Woman (Retrospect Opera); The Royal Ballet and Opera’s Mayerling, La traviata and Die Walküre (Opus Arte); and Richard Blackford’s arrangement of Verdi’s Requiem (Nimbus).
In concert, she has sung with orchestras including City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, the Hallé, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Philharmonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Ulster Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Current engagements include Juno/Semele for Pinchgut Opera; First Norn, Wellgunde/ Götterdämmerung for Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Waltraute/Die Walküre at La Scala, Milan; and Katharina Schratt/Mayerling for London’s Royal Ballet.