ABOUT NATASHA

Natasha is a British Indian soprano from Liverpool, UK. She recently created the role of Jack in the critically acclaimed world premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Itch at Opera Holland Park and made a “stand out” role debut at Welsh National Opera as Neera in Will Todd’s Migrations. Earlier this year, she made her solo recital debut at the Royal Opera House as part of their Family Sundays series. She returned to Opera Holland Park this summer in Acis & Galatea (Ensemble & cover Galatea) and The Yeomen of the Guard (Kate), and this autumn she makes her company debut with English Touring Opera.

Other roles include Frasquita/Carmen (Opera Holland Park & Opera North), Pamina & Papagena/Die Zauberflöte (Royal Opera House - Create & Sing), Cinderella/Little Listeners: Cinderella (Opera North), Carolina/Il Matrimonio Segreto and Nerina/La Fedeltà Premiata (Royal Opera House Mumbai), Musetta/La Bohème (DEBUT Opera in a Day), Baby Bear/Peace at Last (OperaUpClose), Lapák The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera Holland Park), Zora Svadba (Waterperry Opera Festival), Sukanya’s Friend/Sukanya (Royal Festival Hall), Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Hanna Glawari/The Merry Widow and Adele Die Fledermaus (Opera Warwick).

Her concert repertoire as soprano soloist has included Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Bach’s St.Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C Minor and Orff’s Carmina Burana. A keen lover of Art Song and poetry, Natasha also enjoys giving recitals, most recently performing at the Royal Opera House, National Gallery and Two Temple Place.

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.