Photo: Patrick Allen, Opera Omnia

Natalya Romaniw

Representation: General Management

Natalya Romaniw is a Hazard Chase Young Associate Artist.

Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw was born in Swansea.  Natalya’s grandfather, originally from the Ukraine, settled in Wales during the Second World War.  Natalya studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the guidance of John Llewelyn Evans where she was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal in her final year.

Operatic engagements have included La Rondine with British Youth Opera, the cover of First Nymph in Rusalka at the Glyndebourne Festival and Anne Truelove The Rake’s Progress at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff for WNYO.  More recently she appeared as Giulia in La scala di seta for British Youth Opera, covered the role of Anne Truelove for the Glyndebourne Festival and sang the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for Clonter Opera.

Already in demand as a soloist on the concert platform, appearances include Messiah in Fishguard,  a recital of Rachmaninov Songs at St Luke’s at the Barbican, recitals at the Swansea Festival, Ammanford Arts, in Guernsey and at St David’s Hall Cardiff and as soloist with the Manchester Camerata for their popular New Year’s concerts.  She also appears regularly as soloist with the Welsh Male Voice Choirs including the Dunvant, the Morriston Orpheus, Port Talbot and Pontarddulais.    For BBC Four Natalya co-presented and appeared as the soprano in the documentary "Chopin and the Singer".

Natalya was awarded first prize at the London Welsh ‘young singer of the year’ and first prize in the 2008 Welsh Singers Competition.  In 2009 she reached the final of the song prize in the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Natalya was winner of the Clonter Opera Prize in 2010.

At the Guildhall she has appeared as Arminda La Finta Giardiniera , Tatyana Eugene Onegin, Antonia Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Ellen Orford Peter Grimes, and the title roles of Anna Bolena and Arabella (Opera Scenes) and the title role in Armeida’s La Spinalba.  Recent roles include Blanche Les Dialogues des Carmelites and the title role in Tchakovsky’s Iolanta.

Future engagements include the cover of Armida in Rinaldo and First Nymph in Rusalka with Glyndebourne on Tour.

Promoters please note: if you wish to include this biography in a concert programme etc, please contact Hazard Chase to ensure that you receive the most up to date version.
Email: Ruth Connelly