Natasha Jouhl
Representation: General Management
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 and won the John Christie Award in 2009.
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, Carmina Burana for the RPO, Schubert’s Mass in A Flat, Faure’s Requiem and Dvorak’s Requiem for Goldsmiths Choral Union, and Pergolesi’s Missa Romana with the Orchestre National de Lyon.
Natasha’s operatic roles include Elisetta in The Secret Marriage, Ilia in Idomeneo and First Wood Nymph in Rusalka for Opera North, First Lady in The Magic Flute for Opera North and Holland Park Opera, 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, Angelica Orlando for Opera Theatre Company 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 and returned to Glyndebourne as Micaela Carmen on the 2008 tour.
Natasha also made her US debut as Kumadha in John Adam’s The Flowering Tree for Chicago Opera Theater in 2008. Recent engagements include Romilda Xerxes for Opera Theatre Company, Mass in B Minor at St George’s Chapel, Windsor and St Matthew Passion in Chelmsford Cathedral.
Engagements in 2009/2010 include First Woodnymph Rusalka and cover Alice Ford Falstaff at the Glyndebourne Festival, Faure Requiem at Cadogan Hall, title role Alcina for English Touring Opera, Micaela Carmen for the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen and First Woodnymph for Opera North. Subsequent engagements include Donna Anna Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne on Tour.
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