Natasha Jouhl
Natasha was born in London and moved to New York at the age of seven. She received her BMus degree in 1998 from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and continued her studies there on the opera course. In July 1999 she won the Gold Medal Competition. Natasha is presently studying with Susan McCulloch and in 2002 completed a year at the National Opera Studio. Natasha was awarded the Glyndebourne on Tour Promis Award for 2006.
She has performed in masterclasses with Graham Johnson, Iain Burnside and Sir Thomas Allen at the Royal Opera House. Oratorio performances include Handel’s Samson, Acis and Galatea and Messiah at Arundel Cathedral, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and the Waterfront Hall in Belfast (Ulster Orchestra), Haydn’s Creation at St George’s Chapel as part of the Windsor Festival, Schubert’s Mass in A Flat, Faure’s Requiem and Dvorak’s Requiem for Goldsmiths Choral Union, and concerts of Pergolesi’s Missa Romana with the Orchestre National de Lyon.
Natasha’s operatic roles include Elisetta in The Secret Marriage, Ilia in Idomeneo, First Lady in The Magic Flute and First Wood Nymph in Rusalka for Opera North, Emma Khovanshchina for WNO, Tamiri, Il Re Pastore for Garsington Opera, Il Tempo del Postino for the Manchester International Festival, Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodigue, the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snowmaiden, Bernadette in the world premiere of Andrew Schultz’s Going into Shadows at the Guildhall (including a collaboration project in Brisbane, Australia), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Papagena in The Magic Flute for Longborough Festival Opera, Rosalinde (Wexford Festival Opera) and Adele (Kentish Opera) in Die Fledermaus, Nella in Gianni Schicchi for the William Walton Foundation Actor-Singer course in Ischia and Donna Anna in the Graham Vick production of Don Giovanni for Birmingham Opera Company. At Glyndebourne, Natasha has covered the roles of Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, Mélisande Pelléas et Mélisande and title role in Rodelinda and made her Glyndebourne debut in the role of Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte in the summer of 2006.
Engagements in 2007/2008 include Angelica Orlando for Opera Theatre Company, Messiah and Carmina Burana for the RPO, her US debut as Kumadha in John Adam’s The Flowering Tree for Chicago Opera Theater. Subsequent engagements include Micaela Carmen for Glyndebourne Festival on Tour and First Wood Nymph Rusalka for Glyndebourne Festival.
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