Caroline Hatchard

In August 1907 she first appeared as Marietta opposite Walter Hyde as Andrea in The Three Kisses at the Apollo Theatre in London while her Royal Opera House début in 1907[3] was Dewman the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.

[8] She reprised various of those roles for the Denhof Opera Company[3] in Edinburgh, Glasgow and other cities in 1910 before returning to Covent Garden for its Ring Cycle in 1924 in which she appeared as Second Norn and the Rhinemaiden Wellgunde.

[5] She played The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute (1913) and Sophie in the British premiere of Der Rosenkavalier at the Royal Opera House in London on 29 January 1913 with Thomas Beecham conducting.

[2] In September 1913 Hatchard began a tour of the provinces for Ernst Denhof in which she reprised Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and sang the Forest Bird in Siegfried and Eva in The Mastersingers.

In oratorio[3] she sang Messiah and Elijah, in Bach's Mass In B Minor and St Matthew Passion; in Handel's Judas Maccabeus, Israel In Egypt and Acis and Galatea and The Creation by Haydn.

In 1925 she appeared in Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D at the Royal Albert Hall, with Herbert Heyner and Astra Desmond, with Malcolm Sargent conducting and sang Polly in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in March 1928 with the Halifax Choral Society.