Aszpergerowa Katarzyna, nee Rutkowska, *1795 in Lithuania, †25 September 1835 Warsaw, Polish actress and singer (mezzo-soprano). She was performing on stage since she was 4 years old. She started her career in the German theatre in Riga; in 1808–13, she belonged to the theatre troupe of her father, A. Rutkowski, and performed in Minsk, Vitebsk and Polotsk. Then she worked in Vilnius for two years, where in 1814, she married the opera singer Wojciech Aszperger (1790–1847). In 1815, she achieved success as Aspasia in the opera Axur by A. Salieri on the stage of the National Theater in Warsaw. Permanently engaged here, she was for many years one of the most outstanding and most liked artists of the capital’s scene. Under the baton of K. Kurpiński, she performed leading parts in Rossini’s operas (Tankred, The Barber of Seville, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Cinderella, The Thieving Magpie), and her performance in the opera The Red Hat by E-A. Boieldieu was particularly successful.
