Catherine Hunold has established herself as a worthy successor to the great French soprano Régine Crespin. She is enjoying an international career debut, gaining recognition at an early age for the power of her voice and her keen and deeply felt musicianship. Jumping in her first Isolde at the Praha State Opera, she is now turning to some of the most demanding roles of the dramatic soprano literature.

Her recordings include Le Mage by Massenet, Les Barbares by Saint-Saëns (International Opera Awards) and Semele by Dukas with the Brussels Philharmonic released on the Palazetto Bru Zane label. Catherine Hunold  takes part to the classical TV show The Music Box devoted to women's voices released on Naïve and also features as Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites on french TV. This summer she will sing Verdi highlights in Primetime classical tv show Le Concert des Etoiles among opera stars.

She has scored notable personal success as Ortrud in Lohengrin acclaimed by the press and by the public with the  Angers Nantes Opera, with the Korea National Opera, with the Saint-Etienne Opera and with Opera National de Paris Bastille as cover. Her past engagements included her acclamed debut with Capitole de Toulouse in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos as well as her home debut with Opera National de Lorraine in Brünnhilde in Reyer Sigurd, Marguerite in Damnation de Faust with the ONPL, Madame Lidoine at Avignon Opera and Théâtre du capitole de Toulouse in t acclamed Olivier Py staging, Kundry and Ortrud cover at Opera National de Paris Bastille and London Royal Opera House followed by her house debut as Kundry at Teatro Massimo di Palermo in Sir Graham Vick staging conducted by Omer Meier Wellber. On the concert stage, she appears in Wesendonck Lieder with the Limoges Opera, Schubert/Mahler concert with the Rouen Opera, Beethoven’s ninth symphony with the Mulhouse Symphonic Orchestra, Harawi with the Messiaen Festival...

Catherine Hunold will return to Opéra national de Lorraine in the title role of Ariane et Barbe-Bleue by Dukas. Futur plans include her home debut with Opera de Massy as Senta in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, her return to Opera de saint-Etienne in the title role of La Vierge by Massenet and Vier Letzte Lieder with Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire.

Following her debut in Leonora in Verdi’s La Forza del destino with Capitole de Toulouse, Catherine will add Abigail from Nabucco, Lady Macbeth and Minnie from La Fanciulla del west by Puccini to her repertoire. She is also preparing the role of Die Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss.

Her debut in Brünnhilde in Wagner’s  Die Walküre  at  Rennes Opera alongside Willard White as Wotan was a huge triomph and she was a precursor to her return to Rennes as Ortrud, the title role in Puccini’s Turandot, Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio and Wesendonck lieder in recital.  Highlight of Catherine Hunold's 2015 season included her house debut at  Paris Bastille National Opera as Brünnhilde in “Siegfried ou l’anneau maudit”.

Also revered for her interpretations of french romantic works, Miss Hunold was highly acclaimed in Penelope by replacing Anna Caterina Antonacci at very last minute in Rhin National Opera. Performances have included Anahita in Le Mage for the Massenet Biennale at Saint-Etienne Opera,  as well as Floria in Les Barbares by Saint Saens,  the title role of Berenice by Magnard at Tours Opera, the title role of Francesca da Rimini by Ambroise Thomas and Pepa in Mateo Falcone by Theodore Gouvy in Metz Opera, Agnès in La Nonne sanglante by Berlioz under Alain Altinoglu for the Radio France Festival.

Miss Hunold has made numerous concert and recital appearances in Europe. Her concert credits include recital at the Vlaasme Opera with Graham Johnson around Mahler’s Knabenwundenhorn, and most of the major works for the dramatic soprano including Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the Trondheim Symfoniorkester led by his music director Eivind Aadland, Verdi Requiem with the Het Brabants Orchestra at the Eindhoven Muziekgebouw and Rotterdam De Doelen , Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 under Jonathan Schiffman at Avignon and Toulon opera…

She has performed in international opera and concert houses including, amongst others Theatre des Champs Elysees, Vlaasme Oper, Théâtre du Châtelet, Praha State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Opera de Nice, Opera d'Avignon, Opera de Toulon, Opera National de Montpellier, International Maifestspiele the Wiesbaden Opera, Salle Gaveau, Cité de la musique, Festival de Radio France Montpellier, Teatro Malibran, Opera-Théâtre de Metz-Métropole, Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing...
Her concert and opera activities have brought her together with an array of respected conductors including Michael Schonwandt, Eivind Aadland, Philippe Auguin, Alain Altinoglu, Jan Latham Koenig, Walter Kobera, Jacques Lacombe, Jérémie Rhorer, Jacques Mercier, Kees Bakels, Paul-Emmanuel Thomas, Rudolph Piehlmayer, Pascal Rophé  ... Sung with ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Spectra Ensemble, Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, Trondheim Symfoniorkester, Het Brabant Orchestra, Orchestre de la Grande Ecurie et de la Chambre du Roy, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestra dell Accademia Filarmonica di Saluzzo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Orchestre National de Lorraine…

Past operatic credits include among others Lady Macbeth from Verdi’s Macbeth in Paris, Bessie with Angelika KIRCHSCHLAGER in Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel at the Theatre de Champs Elysees and the Theater an der Wien, a Blumenmädchen and Kundry understudy in Parsifal  in Nice Opera,  the 5 Magd and Elektra understudy at the Montpellier Opera, Ilsa in Hercules Haché world premiere by Lucien Posman at the Vlaasme Opera, Clorinda in Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Monteverdi, Electre in Idomenée by Campra at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden… Miss Hunold worked with stage directors as Philippe Sireuil, Carlos Wagner, Alain Garichot, Marcelo Lombardero, Juliette Deschamps, Roland Aeschlimann and choregrapher Lucinda Childs...

 Prize winner of several international competitions, Catherine Hunold was finalist of the famous WAGNERVOICES 2006, awarded the Grand Prize at the European Competition in Arles, the 2nd prize of the Maria Kraja competition in Tirana, the Gold Medal of the Young Soloists International Competition in Luxembourg and the SACEM prize for her interpretation of songs by Francis Poulenc.

A Paris born, Catherine Hunold made her first opera steps at the age of 11 at the Opera Comique in L’écume des jours by Anton Denisov. Early recognized by his elders, she works with such distinguished musicians as the french coloratura soprano Mady MESPLE in Paris, Dame Margaret PRICE at the Vlaasme Operastudio, Graham JOHNSON, Christa LUDWIG, Malcolm KING. At the personal invitation of Christa LUDWIG, she follows her masterclass around the Strauss, Wagner and Puccini heroines at the Villecroze Academy of Music expanding her repertoire to Ariadne, Elsa, Tosca and the Marschallin as well as being the recipient of the Villecroze Foundation Career Grant to prepare her future role with Christa LUDWIG in Vienna. In Paris, with the bass-baritone Malcolm KING she turns definitively to the dramatic soprano repertoire.