ABOUT NATASHA

Natasha Agarwal is a British Indian soprano from Liverpool, described as an “actress and singer of equal stature” (Seen and Heard International) with “clear and rich tones” (Salterton Arts Review). She recently made her role debut at Glyndebourne as Zoe Green in Jonathan Dove’s Uprising and performed as a soloist with the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall in An Evening with Amjad Ali Khan. She also created the role of Jack Lofte in the critically acclaimed world premiere of Dove’s Itch at Opera Holland Park and made a “stand out” (The Times) role debut as Neera in Will Todd’s Migrations at Welsh National Opera. She is currently an Opera Prelude Young Artist.

Other roles include Frasquita Carmen (OHP & Opera North), cover Amor Orfeo ed Euridice, Cinderella Little Listeners: Cinderella (Opera North), Milly The Wellies (ETO), Pamina and Papagena Die Zauberflöte (Royal Ballet & Opera: Create & Sing), cover Galatea Acis and Galatea (OHP), Zorah Ruddigore & Kate The Yeomen of the Guard (OHP with Charles Court Opera), Musetta La Bohème (DEBUT Opera in a Day), Baby Bear Peace at Last (OperaUpClose), Zora Svadba (Waterperry Opera Festival), Medea Medea Gosperia(Thee Black Swan), Carolina Il Matrimonio Segreto (Royal Opera House Mumbai), Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Adele Die Fledermaus and Hanna Glawari The Merry Widow (Opera Warwick).

Oratorio highlights include Messiah (Ripon Cathedral), Carmina Burana (St George’s Hall Bradford & Coventry Cathedral) and Mozart’s C Minor Mass (Spires Philharmonic). A lover of Art Song and poetry, she has given recitals at The National Gallery, Two Temple Place and Royal Opera House. She has won numerous awards including the Opera Holland Park Award for Outstanding Emerging Talent, Charles Wood International Song Prize, David Clover Singers’ Platform Recital Prize, runner-up in the Lesley Garrett Opera Prize and Liverpool’s Voice of the Year.

She is passionate about using music as a means to bring people together and help those in need. She has performed several charity concerts in India and has done a variety of outreach and educational work with opera companies across the UK. She piloted and co-curated the Diverse Voices National Talent Programme at the National Opera Studio, which aims to nurture and support singers from ethnically diverse backgrounds, and she was recently invited to speak on a panel at the Opera Europa conference in Copenhagen/Malmö about tackling racial and gender stereotypes in opera. 

Natasha was a young artist at the National Opera Studio, a Serena Fenwick Young Artist with British Youth Opera and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with an MA in Vocal Performance (Distinction), studying with Nuccia Focile and Chad Vindin. She was a member of the prestigious RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series and Academy Song Circle, and was supported by the Rhoda Jones Roberts Scholarship, Amery Scholarship and Mario Lanza Educational Foundation. Prior to this she was a choral scholar at the University of Warwick (graduating with a First Class Hons. BSc in Mathematics), where she studied singing with Gaynor Keeble. She began her vocal training at a young age with Gerald Hunt and subsequently Caroline Crawshaw, with whom she studied for 11 years.

Natasha is also a trained dancer. She was an associate of the Royal Ballet School and is now an ambassador for All England Dance, having previously won their “Young Dancer of the Year” award. To read more about Natasha’s dance experience please visit the page below.