Catherine Robbin with Paul Nicholson

While she has favored concert work and recitals over the operatic stage, Catherine Robbin has achieved acclaim in all three venues, earning a sizable following of admirers who have often asserted her vocal skills placed her among the finest Canadian mezzo-sopranos of her generation. Although some have contended that Robbin's voice is best suited to Baroque music, her repertory on the concert stage has included works not only by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Pergolesi, and other Baroque masters, but music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms, Mahler, Britten, an...