Cook, Catherine

Performance History(Daly City, California)

2025–26 Season: Berta, The Barber of Seville

2026–27 Season: Marcellina, The Marriage of Figaro

San Francisco Opera Highlights: over 350 performances in over 50 productions, including Jade Boucher in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking; title role of Tobias Picker's Dolores Claiborne; Mrs. McClean in Susannah; Mother Goose in The Rake's Progress; La Frugola in Il Tabarro; Arlene Kamen and Wang Tai-Tai in Stewart Wallace's The Bonesetter's Daughter; Annina in Der Rosenkavalier; Mother Bailey in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life; Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro; Berta in The Barber of Seville; Mother Jeanne in Dialogues of the Carmelites 

Recent and Upcoming: Jake Heggie's Crossing Borders (Music of Remembrance); Marquise in La Fille du Régiment (Opera Colorado); Mama Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana (Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera); Mama in Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk Reimagined (Opera Parallèle); Julia Child in Lee Hoiby's Bon Appetit! (Opera Parallèle); Tom Cipullo's The Parting (Music of Remembrance); Innkeeper in Boris Godunov (San Francisco Symphony); Zosia in Heggie's Out of Darkness (Music of Remembrance); Frau Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (West Edge Opera); Old Woman in Candide (Arizona Opera)

Professor of Voice (San Francisco Conservatory of Music)

San Francisco Opera Medal (2022)

Winner of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (1990)

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship 1991, 1992

Merola Opera Program 1990

Instagram: @catherineacook