The Masque of Alfred, Northern Opera Group – 2017
“Catrin Woodruff (Eltruda) is outstanding: given the arias that carry the main emotional heft, she sings them with dramatic intensity.”
Ron Simpson, The Reviews Hub
Acis and Galatea, Brighton Early Music Festival – 2015
“Catrin Woodruff was a near perfect Galatea, singing with a lovely sense of line and very fine diction, she made the words count. She combined a nice plangent tone with warm modulated tones and a great evenness of delivery. She competed successfully with Piers Adams’s sopranino recorder in the delightful Hush, ye pretty warbling birds, and was fluently confident with lovely centred feel to her delivery when duetting with the fine oboe in As when the dove. The final solo and aria was full of expressive line and depth of colour in the voice.”
– Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill
The Drunkard Cured, RNCM Opera – 2014
“There was nifty footwork and attractive singing from Catrin Woodruff (Colette)”
– Anna Pickard, The Times
Les Mamelles de Tirésias, RCS Opera – 2019
“Catrin Woodruff…gave a supremely assured performance in a challenging role”
– David Smythe, Bachtrack
“Outstanding performance…from the disaffected strangeness of Catrin Woodruff’s odd-bod Therese”
– Ken Walton, The Scotsman
L’Italiana in Algeri, Pop-up Opera – 2015
“Catrin Woodruff’s crystal clear soprano might well have been heard on the other end of the tunnel in Wapping, so much did it fill the space and the same could be said for Helen Stanley’s mezzo soprano – the Elvira and Isabella roles given full value.”
– Gary Naylor, Broadway World
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, RNCM Opera – 2012
“I was impressed, too, by Welsh soprano Catrin Woodruff’s omniscient Minerva (we all need a Minerva).”
– Michael Kennedy, Opera Magazine