Catherine Naglestad

Catherine Naglestad (born November 7, 1965, Santa Clara, California) is an American soprano. The daughter of Scandinavian parents, she grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She earned her Bachelor of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory, furthering her studies in Rome, Milan and New York. She has performed leading roles in opera houses and concert halls around the world, including the Royal Opera House in London, Paris Opéra Bastille, Berlin State Opera, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She is particularly known for the roles of Norma and Alceste.

Reception

Opera Canada said in a 2012 review of Andreas Kriegenburg's staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Bavarian State Opera that "Catherine Naglestad had the lyricism and youthful beauty for the Siegfried Brünnhilde". In a 2008 review of Busoni's Doktor Faust, critic Shirley Apthorp wrote on FT.com that "Amid all this testosterone-laden heft, Catherine Naglestad's exquisitely rounded, sensual Duchess of Parma provides a welcome note of lyricism."

References

• Opera japonica interview with Ruth C Jacobs, 2005, accessed 4 June 2010