Gwendoline Florence Catley (9 February 1906 – 12 November 1996) was an English lyric coloratura soprano who sang in opera, concert and revues.
[2] In 1937 she sang with Sadler's Wells Opera, as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff.
After a successful and sold-out 1938 debut at the Wigmore Hall, which Landon Ronald sponsored,[1][2] she joined the BBC Chorus.
[3] In World War II she sang for a year in Jack Hylton's revue Hi-de-Hi, where she was famed for her performances of "Caro nome" from Verdi's Rigoletto.
In 1949 she sang Catherine Glover in a BBC studio broadcast of Bizet's The Fair Maid of Perth, with Richard Lewis as Henry Smith and conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.