Natalya Romaniw
soprano
© Patrick Allen
The Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw is making her debut in Germany at Oper Frankfurt tonight, stepping in at short notice to sing the title role in Tosca , a role she sings again later this season when making her debuts at Covent Garden, the Hamburg State Opera and, again, in Garsington. She has appeared in recital at venues including the Wigmore Hall and sang in Verdi's Requiem with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder. Highlights last season included her debut at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie as Jenůfa, her first Rusalkas at Garsington Opera and the Edinburgh International Festival and her return to Houston Grand Opera for Blanche in the Dialogues de Carmélites. During the 2020/21 roles included Alice Ford (Falstaff) at Grange Park Opera, Mimì (La Bohéme) and Tosca at English National Opera, where she has also sung Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly). Other recent engagements have included
Tosca, Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) and Mascagni's Iris at Scottish Opera, Mařenka (The Bartered Bride) and Tatiana in Garsington, Iolanta and Lisa (Pique Dame) at Holland Park, Suzel (L’amico Fritz) at Den Jyske Opera and Jenůfa at Grange Park Opera. Her first recording, with the pianist Lada Valesova and Lieder by Rimsky-Korsakow, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Janáček, Novák and Rachmaninov has been released. She has won many singing competitions since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, including the Loveday Song Prize, the 2012 Kathleen Ferrier Award and Houston Grand Opera's Eleanor McCollum Competition. She won the 2016 Critic’s Choice Award for Music and was voted Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards and Female Singer of the Year at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in 2020. While a member of Houston Grand Opera's Studio she sang roles for the first time including Mimì, Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Micaëla (Carmen) und Krystina in Weinberg's Die Passagierin / The (female) Passenger, and returns soon as a guest to sing her first Ortlindes in Wagner's Die Walküre.